Scottish National Party scores big win

Old times here are not forgotten ...


This is another one of those stories the DC-controlled corporate media wish would just go away. Instead, thrilling tales of national pride and self-determination arising from the shadows of dying empires simply grow bigger and more frequent.

In one of its worst electoral setbacks in years, Prime Minister Gordon Brown's Labor Party suffered a huge defeat in a Scottish by-election, raising new questions about the British leader's ability to hold onto the job he has held for barely 12 months.

More unsettling yet for politicians in London, the defeat, announced on Friday, came at the hands of the separatist Scottish National Party which supports independence for Scotland.

Brown himself is Scottish and the Labor Party, which has long viewed Scotland as a fief, has counted heavily on its Scottish seats to cement its majority in general elections.

Brown is more precisely described as a scallywag, which, appropriately, is originally a Scottish term for a miserable reject.