Interesting Times

'May you live in interesting times!' apparently an Old Chinese curse - but probably not! Still, it applies to Scotland these past few weeks, as for the first time the Scottish people have granted the Nationalists a greater share of the vote.

As a result of this, the Labour party have gone in a massive huff with the electorate, refused to acknowledge the victory and taken to the courts in order to overturn the result. No word on how long this petulance will last.

The Lib Dems, whose policies as far as I can see were almost identical to the Nats policies have declined to join a leading coalition on the grounds that the Nat's are keen to ask the people of Scotland whether they'd like to run the show for themselves, but they don't want to ask the question - presumably in case they don't like the answer... I think my dictionary must have 'Democrat' wrong.

The Green party were almost wiped out at the election, returning 2 MSPs. Many people have mused over whether the smaller parties lost out due to the increase in Nat sympathy, but closer to the truth is more likely to be the fact that all the parties are now taking Green issues more seriously - hence less need for a Green pressure group. Whilst the socialists massive public falling out with Tommy Sheridan plus the ridiculous behaviour of the likes of Rosie Kane throughout the last parliament simply made them unelectable - good intentions or otherwise!

We're now heading towards a minority administration lead by easily the most capable man in Scottish, or probably UK, politics being propped up by your kindly old neighbour who tended his garden fastidiously and worried about streetlamps polluting the night sky. Alex Salmond's enemies are licking their wounds and waiting for him to fail in order that they can reclaim lost ground... No word on how any of them intend to best serve the people who elected them.

Interesting times indeed!