Scottish Independence

[bob561941]

If the scots vote for independence what happens to the scottish members in Westminster, do they give up their seats in London and take up seats in Endiburgh ? hat will be the make up of the seats at Westminster how many conservative mps how many labour and how many liberals will there be ?


Thanks

[tonyav]

Is this it, quinie.
http://www.aboutaberdeen.com/whaslikeus.php

[mazie]

It's rather long quinie... but there's a link for it below.I hope it's the one you mean x

http://www.threetowners.com/scots/great_scots.htm

[jeffa]

"f not we could be looking at an default win for the Tories at Westminster"

Why do people persist in posting this garbage? Put simply, and mathematically, it is wholly untrue.

If you take every general election since the 1945 Labour landslide and remove Scotland from the equation, the party with the greatest number of seats would have been different twice. That's it, two times. No more.

And, of those two instances, the governments which the elections returned sat for a combined total of 26 months.

It's just maths!

[Wharton]

quinie - Yes, I know the poem but I can't do links either, however tonyav & mazie have kindly obliged :-)

[quinie]

Thank you,tonyav and mazie.

[mazie]

Always happy to help quinie x

[nungate]

I can't remember the details exactly Anne, but I do recall something about Gladstone and Midlothian from my Higher history - you'd think I'd remember it wouldn't you after passing! (It was a long time ago though)

[quinie]

I was half expecting comments on the poem but of course it had nothing to do with the question by bob561941.

[Wharton]

Maistly Sassenachs here quinie :-)