More in the Daily Telegraph.The withdrawal of funding by major donors plus a new hard-line attitude towards its Scottish operation from Tory headquarters in London has meant that a meeting of the party’s ruling executive in Edinburgh tonight has assumed crisis proportions.
The formation of the coalition government, with the appointment of a Liberal Democrat as Scottish Secretary, is causing a major split in the attitude towards Scotland among senior London-based Tories.
“Many of them now regard Scotland as a Lib Dem problem and have washed their hands of us,” said one party official in Edinburgh
Liberal Democrat Blog of the Year 2014
"Well written, funny and wistful" - Paul Linford; "He is indeed the Lib Dem blogfather" - Stephen Tall
"Jonathan Calder holds his end up well in the competitive world of the blogosphere" - New Statesman
"A prominent Liberal Democrat blogger" - BBC Radio 4 Today; "One of my favourite blogs" - Stumbling
and Mumbling; "Charming and younger than I expected" - Wartime Housewife
Oooh interesting, but also a little frightening perhaps. Does this tie in with Jonathan Meades's guess (at the end of the last series) that Cameron could let Scotland seperate, which will create an English government where the Tory party would have a majority?
ReplyDeletehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2R0achxqtY8#t=2m49s
Thanks for that. Jonathan Meades links are always welcome.
ReplyDeleteSee this posting too.
See also this from a Scottish Tory:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.torybear.com/2010/05/what-next-for-scotland.html