At least somebody down there seems to realise what just happened here: Analysis by Andrew Marr, author and BBC presenter What started as a vote on whether Scotland would leave the UK has ended with an extraordinary constitutional revolution announced outside Downing Street by the Prime Minister. It throws down the gauntlet to the Labour Party, and hints that we are going to see very big change coming and it had better come quickly. We always used to be told that if you laid all the economists in the world end to end they still wouldnt reach a conclusion and I think that could be said often about parliamentary committees and inquiries and commissions. Well, it cant happen this time because its not taking place in a sealed room with the Westminster parties, the old smug consensus, getting round an argument with each other as before. This is really taking place in a huge glass house, being watched by all the Scottish voters and by millions of people around the UK. What the Scottish shock has done is produce a constitutional revolution on a very, very tight timetable. Possibly the most exciting political story in my lifetime.
Posted on: Fri, 19 Sep 2014 14:46:54 +0000
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