Daily Mail second-hand scaremongering from Billyboy this morning, I see. The trade union movement has been just about dismantled in this country, so no danger there (except to ordinary working people, who, courtesy of the successful assaults on the unions since Thatcher, now face zero-hours contracts, under-employment, no job security, workplace bullying and exploitation, below-subsistence wages and bogus apprenticeships). There can be no second referendum on Scottish independence in the next parliament. It is neither being sought nor would it be constitutionally viable within the time unless it was an explicit part of the manifesto of a party that was in power or joint power, and it isn't. A new referendum would have to be almost the first plan of any new administration and that simply won't happen. Scotland will not become a single-party "state" even if every MP belonged to the SNP because it is not a separate state at all (the Scottish people decided that if you recall) and its MPs are Westminster MPs, along with all the others. As for staying in power being the only concern of any new Labour government, well let's remember which tawdry pair of parties made "staying in power for five guaranteed years" the law. Er, wasn't Labour, was it?