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Originally Posted by happyland

Wrong. Scotland have finally realised that it's actually pointless voting for Labour. Not for the first time, Scotland returned a Labour majority at the last General Election, only to end up once again being ruled by a Tory.

I can assure you, it is nothing to do with Milliband not being Scottish!

Alex Salmond has been a fantastic First Minister and I think gradually people have started to see how good for and how passionate he is about Scotland and making her a better place to live!

You are right happyland, I was looking back online at Labours record in Scotland,obviously only part of it all but overall Labour hasn't done for Scotland all it should have.
I adore Scotland and the Scots,Love the Country and the people, I think this was a wise move from the voters to set Alex Salmond against the Cameron led govt at Westminster.
You are also correct when you say it has nothing to do with Miliband not being Scottish.

The Conservatives it seems lost Scotland completely when they used it as a guinea pig for its more extreme policies, such as the poll tax was it. That was in Kinnocks time and Scotland backed Labour strongly in those elections at that time.
They,the Conservatives, also ravaged the natural resources from Scotland too,such as oil revenue to cover up financial problems and avoid recessions in the rest of the UK,that's why the Conservatives will likely never win back greatly in Scotland.

The Lib Dems gained in stature in Scotland after that too but have now also betrayed the trust the Scots put in them at the last election.They have paid part of the price for that on Thursday and it was sensible for the voters to decide to move to and firstly reward Alex Salmond for his great work of the last 4 years and to give him a 2nd term.

I hope my quick assessment of a bit of political history is accurate but I do believe that the Labour party can get another chance, but as you said happyland, it needs to deliver by getting into govt and then doing right in govt for Scotland.

I don't believe a majority of Scots want full independence, well not yet anyway, but it will come if UK govts fail to stop using Scotland as guinea pigs for untried polices and start to afford to the Scots the respect it warrants as a great Nation itself.

Reading back it seems Wilson, Callaghan, Kinnock and Blair all who weren't Scottish by birth were all popular in Scotland and were supported strongly by Scots overall in elections.