Lets just re-iterate that all New Labour did was to continue Tory economic policies from the 80's and 90's. These policies have led us here, a blind following of Freidmanist policies. They didn't work even where they got away with killing folk.
If the Scots vote for independence the industrialised north and midlands will be feked as a rolling Tory gov't curtesy of the southern shires will be inevitable under the current first past the post system we employ to elect our gov'ts then it will be grim up nrth