Scottish Conservatives to be granted 'independence'

[bullmoose88]

Election is on May 5th (the Welsh election is on that date as well, but it's had (much) less media attention).

Would this include MPs?

If so would they automatically tie in with a Conservative government and count toward thier seat number as if they were real Tory MPs?

This is silly nonsense, stop carving up what's left, it's supposed to be a United Kingdom

Before the '60's the Tories in Scotland were an organisationally seperate party from the Tories elsewhere; they ran as Unionists (same as Northern Ireland).

So they'd be known as the Conservative and Unionist Party? (or more separate than that)...

[bullmoose88]

So they'd be known as the Conservative and Unionist Party? (or more separate than that)...

Just the Unionist Party IIRC. Maybe Scottish Unionist Party?

(Conservative & Unionist Party comes from the merger with the remains of the Liberal Unionists in the early 20th century)

Well...I was refering more to how they'd be known in parliament, would the scottish tories sit with the "british (well, English plus what, 1 welsh) tories...and the delegation be known as the Conservative and Unionist Party...or what