( akenaton and musket - have you ever considered starting your own private thread, you could always choose different names for all the other ones)....anyway..... the recent referendum in scotland gave a great boost to participation in the democratic process - surely a good thing whichever way the scots voted. what was also evident was a widespread mistrust of the ridiculous westminster pantomime. is there a chance of any such positive developments south of the border as we approach the next general election? why should scots be able to understand our political process better than the english, where the only 'alternative' seems to be UKIP? surely we can do better than that?
(as interesting to some as the past tax raising powers of holyrood may be, it doesn't shed a great deal of light on how the rest of the UK can move forward positively)