[A-List] UK state: PR in Scottish local elections

["Michael Keaney" <michael.keaney@xxxxxx>]

Douglas writes:

The Parliament is still in its infancy, only 4 years down the road, but PR
so far may be the biggest single achievement it has so far agreed on, with
the potential to have the longest lasting results.

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Of which by far the greatest will be the dismantling of the utterly corrupt,
embedded Labour Party local government apparatus, which is the rotten
foundation of Tony's shiny New Labour project. This is a central
contradiction threatening to tear apart Tony's precarious hegemony. Given
the Labour Party's traditional dependence on Scotland, this, combined with
the chipping away of the SSP, SNP, and Greens, spells the end of that state
of affairs north of Berwick, and ultimately in England, as the legitimacy of
the status quo crumbles in the face of Scottish developments (cf. regional
assemblies).

Michael