Scottish National Party clobbers traditional Labour & conservatives - UK

I think there's something in the air these days across the west. We reject austerity and corporate greed. We want our communities back in our control, not the corporate elites. The times they are a changing baby.

Both Labour and the conservatives were swept away in the SNP landslide. SNP policies: 

• Use "Scotland’s Penny" to invest £690 million more in health, education and housing 
• Increase the number of doctors and nurses in our health service and teachers in our schools 
• Abolish Student Fees and restore grants for 20,000 students from lower income backgrounds. 
• Introduce Scottish Public Service Trusts to replace the scandal of Tory and Labour privatisation of health and education. 
• Spend an additional £30 for every pupil in Scotland on school text books and library books. 
• Create the most extensive Scottish educational resource ever by building a virtual Scotland and supplying e-mail addresses and computer access to all school children. 
• Reform Scottish land laws to give all communities a real say in their future. 
• Bring water back under local democratic control and so reduce increases in bills 
• Abolish the tolls on the Skye Bridge. 
• Create new drugs courts to help tackle Scotland’s drug crisis. 
• Provide a package of measures to promote small businesses 
• Establish a network of commercial embassies, based on the existing Locate in Scotland and Scottish Trade International offices, selling Scotland abroad for tourism, exports and inward investment. 
• Introduce Proportional Representation in local government 
• Hold a referendum within the first four year term of the Parliament to allow the people of Scotland to choose Independence if they so wish. more