Is this the beginning of the end of the Union?

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Will the Tories in Westminster drive Scotland to independance?

I mean, how long will they hold onto power in a country where they have only 1 MP and a tiny proportion of votes?

Was this the SNP's intention all along? They certainly didn't bother campaigning in my constituency

I was thinking of it the other way round - how England would have tolerated a Labour hotpotch dictated to by the minorities in Scotland and Wales

Well, it will certainly make Alex Salmond's job easier when the campaigning starts for the Holyrood elections next year.

Very interesting secanrios coming up I suspect. If they've any sense, then they will appoint a Libdem as Scottish Secretary -at least they have 11 seats. It will be telling what happens next year at the Scottish elections, and whether people are so keen to vote for a libdem party that is propping up a party which Scotland clearly rejected.
However, overall, as the tories always argued in the bad old days, as long as people vote for unionist parties, then you can't complain, as ultimately you are voting on a UK wide basis, and the tories got the most votes in the UK.

As to SNP not campaigning, I'm not in your part of Scotland myself, but I can assure you that candidates were working VERY hard in lots of consituencies - maybe you were out the day they called .

It is going to be very interesting to see what happens.

England I think would not have tolerated the UK government being held to ransom by the SNP and Plaid.

No, but a Lib Dem/Labour coalition would have certainly been the beginning of the end, and quite understandably. Scotland can't complain - we have our own parliament after all. Incidentally, 18.9% of people in Scotland voted Lib Dem and 16.7% voted Tory - not a tiny proportion at all.

I feel that referendum on Scottish independence coming on.

gaelic - we may have our own parliament, and hopefully that will protect us from the worst excesses of the Tories over issues like education, health etc, but we still have no control over fiscal matters, defence, energy, broadcasting etc. However I do agree, although probably for differing reasons, that Scotland can't complain - a majority voted for unionist parties. Therefore we have a Tory government.