Talk:Scottish mafia

message: (concerning the over-representation of SE England MPs amongst the Conservatives)
Maybe, but not in this context. The article is about the Scottish Raj. There's no need also to mention the undoubted Tory bias towards the South East. The Angel of Islington (talk) 01:43, 3 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: "It should be noted that..."

message: a pejorative term used by English nationalists
Is there any evidence this is a term coined by or used by English nationalists? My recollection is that the term was in active use before issues like the West Lothian Question and the number of Scots in the Labour front line became a source of grievance (Scotland was also "overrepresented" in the last Conservative Cabinet as well!) and it seemed little different from other "mafias" in politics such as the "Cambridge Mafia" in the Conservative cabinets of the 1980s and 1990s. Timrollpickering (talk) 15:08, 14 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Use 

message: If we are going to have an article which talks about English nationalists' nitpicking over the small number of Scots MPs who are in prominent positions at Westminster, then where does it stop? We Scots, could start writing articles on the number of English people in prominent quango positions in Scotland, or heads of organisations which have unfair and undemocratic influence over important decision-making processes, relating to energy, environment, community projects etc. There would be a much longer list, I can assure you. I'm all for an English parliament, if that's what English people want. Trouble is you've had one for a long time, it's called Westminster. It invariably looks after English interests first, and always has done.
--Reasonable30 (talk) 08:04, 29 April 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Yawn. Do you honestly think there is anyone out there who has not heard these same views again and again and again? The only thing Westminster looks out for is subsidizing tuition fees for Scots, giving away free bus travel to elderly Scots, giving away free prescriptions to all Scots, giving away more money to the NHS in Scotland than proportionately to any other region of the UK. I'm not too hot on the fact that a lot of cancer drugs are available in Scotland but nowhere else in the UK, particularly as the funds from those are coming from south of the border. See Barnett formula. I could go on. 14:15, 12 August 2008 (UTC)

text: The problem is there is no legal national entity called England. England is merely a division of the UK. Whereas Scorland is recognisd through its national parliament as a costituent country of the UK. We have in Scotland our own education system, our own law system, our own democratically elected parliament. England merely being a division of the UK has to accept that Scots elected into the UK government have equal right to promotion in government as those from the England district. And furthermore the scots are a small minority in parliament and if their England district MP's didn't want them in power they wouldn't be ministers.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Fairgomate (talk • contribs) 08:18, 11 November 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Nitpicking 

message: Since Labour was wiped out in Scotland in the 2015 election by the Scottish National Party, leaving Labour MP, where does this leave this article? --184.186.92.117 (talk) 13:12, 8 May 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: Hideously out of date. It needs to be rewritten to make clear that it describes the UK political situation only from 1997 to 2010, not since then. The line saying the Conservatives won only 15 seats in the most recent election, making it the No. 3 party in Scottish politics after the Scottish National Party and Labour is also well out of date and no longer true since 2016. Robofish (talk) 13:57, 29 December 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  2015 election wipeout of Labour 

message: Recent polls in Scotland shows that the Scottish Labour Party could be set to make a significant political revival in the UK Parliament by gaining a significant number of MPs at the expense of the SNP. A YouGov poll released earlier today showed Labour gaining around 29 MPs in Scotland which will lead to them once again becoming the largest party in Scotland. Where does this leave this article? Pikachu3408 (talk) 22:21, 10 April 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Next election: possible revival of Scottish Labour in UK Parliament