More of the same

Having watched the results coming in from Scotland. They have trashed the Labour Party in a spectacular way with some swings, an unprecedented 30 plus percent.

This defeat is not normal. It is not due to an examination of a manifesto or a political parties promises but rather it is due to nationalism !
The Scots see themselves as poor cousins in the Mother of Parliaments in London. The Establishment in the guise of the Conservatives, control the purse and have in the past treated the populations in other parts of the UK, including Scotland with some disdain. The Scots having united in their thrust for "independence", carried this unity into this electoral vote which in my opinion explains the enormous swing.
Does the wish of the ordinary man in the street in England to re-elect a Conservative government carry some sort of social masochism? Having experienced a fall in living standards due to the lack of any improvement in wages for the last 5 years. 

The growth of Food Banks. The growth in the manipulation of the workforce using unstructured, unprotected employment arrangements where the workers "contract" does not stipulate any responsibility from the employer towards his workforce. Massive cuts to the Welfare State, with more promised in the next Conservative Government. The continued Privatisation of the NHS with all the implications for this cherished remnant of the great Social Experiment, initiated by the post war Labour Government. All this against a background of a doubling of the wealth of the richest in the same period that the poorest have been under the total onslaught of the very government they have now voted into power.

Masochistic or plain bloody stupid ?