The National Party of Scotland V2.0

Politics are life; therefore those who have grown tired Politics have grown tired of life, infallible logic? Up until that astounding victory of the SNP, I had grown tired of politics and perhaps life, things certainly looked bleak.  This sea change has stirred what had become a stagnant cesspit of un-representative democratic politics in Scotland - pity the English voters who are stuck in their unrepresentative democracy, still victims of their automaton like voting habits.

Perhaps nothing is more interesting and entertaining as the super-decimation of the Labour party in Holyrood.

At last we have seen perhaps the worst offenders of the politician-trust-paradox routed, the entitlement mentality encumbered Scottish Labour have its comeuppance, and not before time.  Second rate monkeys who weighed votes throughout Scotland have been delivered an almighty kicking at the polls, what is surprising is that it took so long for the Scottish electorate to get the measure of the tartan bedecked socialist mafia.  An electorate who were fleet footed and sophisticated enough to deliver a sudden and permanent death blow to the Scottish Tory party in the 1980s took an inexplicably long time to untangle the aggressively marketed tissue of lies that reinforced the increasingly hard to justify belief that the Labour Party was the defender of the downtrodden, disadvantaged, working class and progressive liberal voters.  All gone in an instant, crushed in one memorable day by the impressive SNP "all-Scotland party" approach to politics - and the final buy-in by the self-harm prone traditional unquestioning Labour voters. Although it was not just themselves that were harmed in their lack of discrimination; we all suffered under the tutelage of the never ending stream of second rate politicians foisted upon us by a Scotland dependent Westminster centric Labour party.  Did their national executive committee really believe that the Scots were eternally stupid, never to recognise that the emperor was naked?  If Scotland and the north of England were so important to them why did Bliar's glory years fail to reverse the destruction of Thatcher's boot boys?

We can only hope...

What really staggers me into an exaggerated parody of a Scottish drunk is the speed of their decline - Labour once stood alone, the great reformers, a progressive party whose 1924 and 1945 parliaments delivered significant change as the party invested its energy in righting the inequalities of generations . It looks like entropy has finally dissipated that momentum; reflected perfectly in the grotesque death throes we've witnessed in the media over the last few days - an ugly sight as the masks are peeled off in snarling bloody recrimination.  The previous National Party of Scotland is now surely dead - Scotland in the 21st century is  a de-industrialised, financially destitute, unhealthy land of marginal opportunity thanks to the Labour Party and the default voting habits of many voters.

The SNP have the opportunity of a generation (generations even,) the naysayers - that unholy alliance of Tory, Lib Dem and Labour whose imagination was limited to rejecting anything that wasn't their idea are now gone in this moment.

One last work of caution (ever the optimist me) - it is worth bearing in mind that anybody who seeks power over others should be viewed with a suspicious eye, to be trusted at your peril - an observation that three decades of healthy suspicion (I am that old) has reinforced.  I can only hope that the newly elected all-inclusive National Party of Scotland includes me and you - who would we vote for otherwise?