Scotland: voting to escape austerity, not the United Kingdom?

By Bagehot

WITH results from regional and local elections now pouring in, a nationalist triumph in Scotland is the story of the morning (counting in the referendum on Westminster voting rules has not yet started). Despite voting rules effectively designed to prevent a single party from holding power, the Scottish National Party of Alex Salmond has taken so many Scottish Parliament seats off Labour, even in strongholds like Glasgow, that an SNP majority government looks a real possibility.

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