Why have Scots emphatically rejected the two national parties – Conservative and Labour? What is evident in Scotland – and elsewhere in the other nations and regions of Britain – is an ever-widening gulf between daily experience of life in these islands, and the political management of the fundamental and vital services which we all need.Local government in Scotland is now seen to be of consequence and therefore has a higher level of active support at the ballot box. What we now must move towards is equivalent regional government structures in England and an equalisation of the re-distributed and devolved powers between them and the national administrations elsewhere in Britain. If this were to be allied to a preferential voting system and a reconstruction of the upper c