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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¿También pretenden que en la futura Ley de Función Pública se fije el concurso-oposición como sistema general de acceso por turno libre en la Admón. General como en Sanidad y Educación?
Además, después de años de OEP congeladas, ahora la mayoría de plazas para la estabilización de empleo temporal o interino donde los opositores no interinos tienen pocas posibilidades de acceder a dichos puestos.
Entre las tasas de reposición y estos acuerdos... ¿dónde queda el derecho de acceso a la función pública en condiciones de igualdad, mérito y capacidad?
Buenos días
Es perverso el acuerdo entre sindicatos y la Administración para la consolidación del empleo público. El Marco de pacto por el empleo público, no debería actuar al margen de la Constitución y de los derechos de los ciudadanos. La deriva hacia la abolición de las oposiciones y la arbitrariedad en el acceso al empleo público se inicio hace tiempo, esto es simplemente un paso más.
Buen día a todos
Hoy se publica este estudio en el INAP sobre el acceso al empleo público. Recomendable su lectura
http://laadministracionaldia.inap.es/noticia.asp?id=1507941&nl=1&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=24/10/2017
Por si no funciona el enlace, esta es la referencia:
Severiano Fernández Ramos es Catedrático de Derecho Administrativo en la Universidad de Cádiz. El artículo se publicó en el número 46 de la Revista General de Derecho Administrativo (Iustel, octubre 2017):
"El actual sistema de acceso al empleo público padece, desde la perspectiva de la igualdad de oportunidades, dos tipos de problemas. Uno estructural, derivado de la alta tasa de empleo temporal, que presiona para que los parámetros normativos que rigen los procesos selectivos (desde la oferta de empleo público hasta las convocatorias públicas) primen la posición de los empleados con vínculo temporal. El otro problema, de carácter episódico pero recurrente, afecta al principio de integridad de los procesos selectivos. Se ha tratado de poner de manifiesto que sólo desde un mayor protagonismo de la ley, tanto básica como de desarrollo, pueden afrontarse estos problemas de igualdad e integridad. Para ello, se ha tratado de subrayar que el alcance de la reserva de ley y de lo básico es más intenso en materia de acceso al empleo público que en relación con el estatuto del personal que ya ostenta la condición de empleado público, pues primordialmente se trata de garantizar el ejercicio de un derecho constitucional de ciudadanía....
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