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May 2010:

SCOTLAND 2011 -

THE REAL ELECTION FIGHT

SCOTLAND is a foreign country; they do things differently there … to adapt a famous opening line. And that important lesson from the general election is a dangerous one, full of explosive potential.

The radically-reversed results in Scotland (and the other Celtic nations in the UK) and England have produced a fraught situation which will be played out long after the stitch-up settlement to produce a government at Westminster.

Having covered 13 UK general elections – not to mention the Scottish Parliament, two Popes and numberless by-elections – I cannot remember any as extraordinary, baffling and with such far-reaching consequences as this one. And what will emerge from the rubble after the Brown bombshell is anyone’s guess.