Like the battle of Waterloo, the battle for Scotland was a damn close-run thing. The effects of Thursday’s no vote are enormous – though not as massive as the consequences of a yes would have been.
The vote against independence means, above all, that the 307-year Union survives. It therefore means that the UK remains a G7 economic power and a member of the UN security council. It means Scotland will get more devolution. It means David Cameron will not be forced out. It means any Ed Miliband-led government elected next May has the chance to serve a full term, not find itself without a majority in 2016, when the Scots would have left. It means the pollsters got it right, Madrid will sleep a little more easily, and it means the banks will open on Friday morning as usual.
But the battlefield is still full of resonant lessons. The win, though close, was decisive. It looks like a 54%-46% or thereabouts. That’s not as good as it looked like being a couple of months ago. But it’s a lot more decisive than the recent polls had hinted. Second, it was women who saved the union. In the polls, men were decisively in favour of yes. The yes campaign was in some sense a guy thing. Men wanted to make a break with the Scotland they inhabit. Women didn’t. Third, this was to a significant degree a class vote too. Richer Scotland stuck with the union — so no did very well in a lot of traditonal SNP areas. Poorer Scotland, Labour Scotland, slipped towards yes, handing Glasgow, Dundee and North Lanarkshire to the independence camp. Gordon Brown stopped the slippage from becoming a rout, perhaps, but the questions for Labour — and for left politics more broadly — are profound.
For Scots, the no vote means relief for some, despair for others, both on the grand scale. For those who dreamed that a yes vote would take Scots on a journey to a land of milk, oil and honey, the mood this morning will be grim. Something that thousands of Scots wanted to be wonderful or merely just to witness has disappeared. The anticlimax will be cruel and crushing. For others, the majority, there will be thankfulness above all but uneasiness too. Thursday’s vote exposed a Scotland divided down the middle and against itself. Healing that hurt will not be easy or quick. It’s time to put away all flags.
The immediate political question now suddenly moves to London. Gordon Brown promised last week that work will start on Friday on drawing up the terms of a new devolution settlement. That may be a promise too far after the red-eyed adrenalin-pumping exhaustion of the past few days. But the deal needs to be on the table by the end of next month. It will not be easy to reconcile all the interests – Scots, English, Welsh, Northern Irish and local. But it is an epochal opportunity. The plan, like the banks, is too big to fail.
Alex Salmond and the SNP are not going anywhere. They will still govern Scotland until 2016. There will be speculation about Salmond’s position, and the SNP will need to decide whether to run in 2016 on a second referendum pledge. More immediately, the SNP will have to decide whether to go all-out win to more Westminster seats in the 2015 general election, in order to hold the next government’s feet to the fire over the promised devo-max settlement. Independence campaigners will feel gutted this morning. But they came within a whisker of ending the United Kingdom on Thursday. One day, perhaps soon, they will surely be back.
(Artículo de Martin Kettle, publicado en "The Guardian" el 19 de septiembre de 2014)
5 comentarios:
Sr. Saz, es reconfortante y tranquilizador su interés por el tema porque eso significa:
a) Una Admón Pca comprometida con los principios de legalidad y eficacia administrativa, y con propiciar unas instituciones públicas transparentes y promotoras de una ética pública cada día más exigente que conlleva respetar:
- Los derechos fundamentales de los empleados públicos como, el derecho al respeto ... y dignidad en el trabajo, especialmente frente al acoso ... , moral y laboral ...
- Unos principios éticos como respetar la Constitución y el resto de normas que integran el ordenamiento jurídico y
- Los derechos fundamentales y libertades públicas, evitando toda actuación que pueda producir discriminación por razón de cualquier condición o circunstancia personal o social.
b) Que no se cuestione la competencia de sus hombres de confianza para organizar el trabajo, porque se hará dentro del respeto a la norma legal
c) Que ni la categoría profesional, ni el puesto que ocupe en ese momento, suponga una franquicia para forzar un quita y pon de jefes de sección , en función de las personas de las que prefiera rodearse; estaremos ante una función pública sometida a las leyes y los reglamentos.
Sería muy preocupante que los empleados públicos llegaran a sospechar que todo funcionario que no se muestre dócil o sumiso a consignas o intereses de sus superiores pudieran ser susceptibles de ser represaliados, que tuvieran miedo de una posible arbitrariedad que pueda arruinar su vida profesional y poner fin a su carrera administrativa, frente al valor de la legalidad y sus ppios de publicidad, mérito, capacidad, igualdad …
d) Que el que en el próximo concurso consiga encuadrarse en el marco de una plaza, aunque su perfil personal no guste a alguien, al día siguiente no serán trasvasadas sus funciones, no se vaciará su puesto y no será enviado a un rincón como chico de los recados a disposición de su Excelencia.
Sr. Saz, si hay una petición o denuncia de hechos graves, aunque no nos guste, debe ser contestada.
A este subordinado suyo, en permanente encomienda temporal, a su entera disposición, “todavía” titular de una “todavía” existente sección, cuyas funciones fueron trasvasadas a otra y son desempeñadas por compañero de perfil idóneo (en comisión de servicio) le gustaría constatar que su interés es sincero y real y felicitarle por ello. PAG.
Todo es una gran mentira, ¡cuanto fariseismo hay!
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Somos muchos los funcionarios que sufrimos acoso laboral porque no somos dóciles y expresamos nuestra disconformidad con ciertas prácticas. Mientras tanto, cierto personal laboral seleccionado en procesos de selección amañados o funcionarios interinos escogidos con nombre y apellidos, son muy bien considerados por nuestros jefes, porque sirven a sus intereses.
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