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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Este tema no parece importarle a nadie, lamentablemente.
Los Servicios Jurídicos del Gobierno de Aragón han promovido un nuevo recurso de casación contra la sentencia del Tribunal Superior de Justicia de Aragón (TSJA) favorable al derecho de acceso al empleo público, estimatoria del recurso promovido por esta Asociación en defensa de dicho derecho fundamental.
El TSJA condenaba la inactividad en la que había incurrido el Gobierno de Aragón al no aprobar oferta de empleo en 2014 para el ámbito de administración general, y se obligaba a la aprobación de dicha oferta, con inclusión de todas las plazas vacantes ocupadas por personal interino en dicho ámbito, informa en una nota de prensa la Asociación en Defensa de la Función Pública.
Recurso que se suma al que también presentó el Gobierno de Aragón contra la sentencia que anulaba la oferta de empleo público de 2015, por no incluir la totalidad de los puestos ocupados por interinos.
Con ambos recursos, según la asociación, el Gobierno de Aragón deja patente "su nula voluntad" de garantizar a la ciudadanía el ejercicio del derecho de acceso a la función pública, "negando con ello el adecuado ejercicio del derecho constitucional y tratando de evitar la aplicación de dos sentencias favorables al derecho dictadas por el Tribunal Superior de Justicia de Aragón".
Para esta organización se trata de "un gesto deliberado" por parte del Gobierno de Aragón para "evitar el cumplimiento de fallos judiciales favorables al derecho de acceso al empleo público, a través de una interpretación realizada por el TSJA para permitir que los puestos ocupados por interinos hayan de ser incluidos en la oferta de empleo público, de manera que los límites presupuestarios solo operen respecto a las plazas vacantes.
La Asociación se va a dirigir a los diferentes Grupos Parlamentarios de las Cortes de Aragón y al Justicia para que en el ámbito de sus respectivas facultades de control y de defensa de los derechos de las personas, insten al Ejecutivo autonómico para que desista de los recursos judiciales planteados ante el TS y proceda a dar cumplimiento a las sentencias recaídas en relación con las ofertas de empleo público de 2014 y 2015.
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¿Y en el "concurso" de Administrativos-puestos base- que no salen las vacantes? ¿qué explicación tiene según la Asociación? Os lo pregunto porque en función pública no dan ninguna y esto también vulnera el derecho de los funcionarios.
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