> That's a bit like saying that you only believe in democracy when it's your own party that wins the election, otherwise you'll take your ball and go home.
I'm going to bite the bullet and agree with you here. But the situation is worse than that: even if your chosen party won at this flavour of democracy, you should still consider taking the ball home.
400,000 Scottish people voted for the Conservative party - and yet these voters are unbelievably underrepresented or unrepresented within the Conservative government with only 1 MP and quite probably 0 again in the future (I concede that Scottish voters were overrepresented in the recent Labour era of government, although this was only slight)
The present UK government has no commitment to Scotland and limited reason to represent Scotland's interests, and that's likely to continue to be the case in future governments. It's not healthy or sustainable for Scotland.
Why wouldn't you choose self-rule over being locked out of government?
It seems right that the Conservative Party should have representation in Scotland's politics, but it seems wrong that Scotland is ruled by them.
The disproportionate Westminster system - where a reasonably sized body of Scottish Conservatives currently have 1 representative out of 304 in the London-based party - contributes to major underrepresentation of Scotland in the existing government.
Yes. In the 13 general elections dating back to 1964, the Conservative party have been 2nd, 3rd or 4th in Scotland's vote share for the Westminster parliament. In the three elections since 2001, the Conservatives have finished 4th (in a 2-party system).
Yet 6 of those 13 general elections, including the most recent, have resulted in a Conservative Prime Minister.
Given that the frequency with which the key critical words are applied to men (essentially never) and women (essentially always), your explanation cannot tell the whole story.
Saying that this is inconclusive is a strange thing to claim - the evidence is plentiful. You are describing a serious but separate problem which adds to but does not explain this difference.
Answer: Not at all. Science rarely has such unanimity on any topic as that illustrated by this article.
There is only one study cited here showing negative correlation between any two aspects of intelligence, despite this being worthy of study for the whole of a century. That shouldn't even register as random noise.
I'm going to bite the bullet and agree with you here. But the situation is worse than that: even if your chosen party won at this flavour of democracy, you should still consider taking the ball home.
400,000 Scottish people voted for the Conservative party - and yet these voters are unbelievably underrepresented or unrepresented within the Conservative government with only 1 MP and quite probably 0 again in the future (I concede that Scottish voters were overrepresented in the recent Labour era of government, although this was only slight)
The present UK government has no commitment to Scotland and limited reason to represent Scotland's interests, and that's likely to continue to be the case in future governments. It's not healthy or sustainable for Scotland.
Why wouldn't you choose self-rule over being locked out of government?