The referendum on Scottish independence was negotiated by a
Conservative PM. It is to be held in September 2014. The next UK general
election will be help in May 2015 and therefore may not include Scotland, if it
becomes independent in the meantime. Coincidence? Not necessarily.
David Cameron has stated that his party wants Scotland to
stay. He could not really say otherwise, at least not publicly. But the facts
are such that his party stands to gain from losing Scotland. The Conservative
Party has most of its support south of the border: at present, it only has one
MP in Scotland. With Scotland gone, the Conservatives will be in a much better
position to win in the remainder of the UK. Labour, on the other hand, will be
marginalized without their Scottish MPs in Westminster. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:2010UKElectionMap.svg.
Despite Cameron’s rhetoric, The Conservatives may be as keen
on Scottish independence as the Scots.
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