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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¿Qué se hará con las plazas vacantes que no se ofertan en el concurso de Administrativos?
Bien hecho el recordar y requerir el cumplimiento de las normas.
Los responsables políticos han de saber que la ciudadanía no está dispuesta a soportar más incumplimientos.
Defensa de la Función Pública exige una oferta de empleo.
elperiodicodeargon
La Asociación para la Defensa de la Función Pública aragonesa ha requerido al consejero de Hacienda y Administración Pública, Fernando Gimeno, que apruebe la convocatoria de alguna oferta de empleo público este año, como marca el artículo 23.2 de la Constitución y amplía el Estatuto Básico del Empleado Público.
El actual Ejecutivo presidido por Javier Lambán, recordó la asociación, todavía no ha aprobado ninguna oferta de empleo público. "Pero sí se ha preocupado de recurrir ante el Tribunal Supremo aquellas sentencias del Tribunal Superior de Justicia de Aragón que le obligaban a rectificar las irregulares ofertas de 2014 y 2015 del anterior Ejecutivo, de Luisa Fernanda Rudi, al no contener las plazas que exige el Estatuto Básico, vulnerando el derecho de acceso a la función pública", opinó.
Para la asociación, la actitud adoptada por el actual Gobierno de Aragón, "al tratar de anular o retrasar las sentencias dictadas por el Tribunal Superior de Justicia de Aragón (TSJA), resulta particularmente grave y reprochable".
Por ello, al igual que hicieron con el anterior responsable de función pública, Javier Campoy, han requerido a Gimeno para que oferte empleo público.
De no hacerlo, o si en la oferta aprobada no se incluyen las plazas que establece tanto el Estatuto Básico del Empleado Público como la vigente Ley de Ordenación de la Función Pública de la Comunidad Autónoma de Aragón, anunciaron que acudirán de nuevo al TSJA, que ya ha dictado cinco sentencias favorables a ellos.
Para la asociación, "resulta inaceptable que los actuales responsables de función pública sigan manteniendo una actitud contraria al respeto del derecho de acceso, actitud que debiera conllevar su inhabilitación para el ejercicio de responsabilidades públicas".
El Periódico de Aragón
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Mi reconocimiento y agradecimiento a los únicos que defienden a los empleados públicos y a la legalidad para vergüenza de los apesebrados y cómplices sindicatos
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Pero si son los mismos. Lo unico q cambia es cada vez hay mas liberados. Y asi los sindicatos viven el mundo irreal pensando q hacen algo cuando solo hacen reunirse para pasar la mañana y pellizcarse y decir y esto es real cobrar otro mes sin hacer nada.
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