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)
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¿son inocentes todas esas omisiones?
DECRETO 20/2015, de 24 de febrero, del Gobierno de Aragón, por el que se nombra a D. Francisco Javier Jarque Chavarria, Interventor Delegado del Departamento de Hacienda y Administración Pública.
¿Tiene alguna lógica que un Ingeniero de Caminos asuma la Intervención Delegada en Teruel?
En resolución de la convocatoria efectuada por Orden de 9 de octubre de 2014, publicada en el "Boletín Oficial de Aragón", de 4 de noviembre de 2014, a propuesta del Consejero de Hacienda y Administración Pública, y de conformidad con lo dispuesto en el artículo 11.2.c) de la Ley de Ordenación de la Función Pública de la Comunidad Autónoma de Aragón, cuyo texto refundido fue aprobado por Decreto Legislativo 1/1991, de 19 de febrero, y en el artículo 24 del Reglamento de provisión de puestos de trabajo, carrera administrativa y promoción profesional de los funcionarios de la Administración de la Comunidad Autónoma de Aragón, aprobado por Decreto 80/1997, de 10 de junio, se nombra Interventor Delegado Territorial en Teruel de la Intervención General, del Departamento de Hacienda y Administración Pública, a D. Francisco Javier Jarque Chavarria, funcionario de carrera del Cuerpo de Funcionarios Superiores de la Administración de la Comunidad Autónoma de Aragón, Escala Facultativa Superior (Ingenieros de Caminos, Canales y Puertos), con número Registro Personal 1842183113 A2002-22, quien reúne los requisitos exigidos en la convocatoria.
Zaragoza, 24 de febrero de 2015.
La Presidenta del Gobierno de Aragón,
LUISA FERNANDA RUDI ÚBEDA
El Consejero de Hacienda y Administración Pública,
JAVIER CAMPOY MONREAL
¿Cuáles son los requisitos de desempeño del puesto?
Según la convocatoria, basta con ser funcionario del Grupo A, de cualquiera de sus Cuerpos o Escalas, y contar con titulación de Licenciado en Ciencias Económicas o en Derecho.
¿Es alguna de esas titulaciones la que debe tener el nuevo titular del puesto?
Además de Ingeniero de Caminos.
SATSE pide que se plantee un recurso de inconstitucionalidad contra la integración del CASAR
04 marzo 2015
SATSE Aragón ha remitido una carta a la Defensora del Pueblo en la que le pide que plantee un recurso de inconstitucionalidad contra la integración del CASAR. En ese escrito se argumenta esta petición señalando que esa medida vulnera preceptos contitucionales, además de vulnerar la ley 7/2007 de 12 de abril del estatuto básico del empleado público que establece las bases del régimen estaturario de los funcionarios públicos y la ley especial de 55/3/2003 de 16 de diciembre del Estatuto Marco.
Ya son varias las peticiones en el mismo sentido.
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