Peter Black in denial again.

I imagine if there is one Blogger who is praying Plaid lose their sole MEP rather thab its own

 in tonight Euro Election count because it will allow him to comment on another Parties woes 

Peter probably the most enthusiastic Blogger who is a member of a UK legislature strangely has no comment on the LibDem disastrous showing in the Local Government elections in England.

In some ways the UKIP "earthquake"  (or was it a tremor") masked the disaster to his Party  as I pointed out yesterday they lost all their seats on Islington  Council  despite the fact they were in control eight years ago

But they also ended up with no Councillors in Liverpool which was once their flagship of urban liberalism. 

Controlling party		Years	Leader
No overall control		1974–1983	1974 – 1975 Cyril Carr (Liberal) 1975 – 1976: Bill Smyth (Liberal) 1976 – 1978: John Hamilton (Labour) 1978 (May – June): Eddie Roderick (Labour) 1978 – 1979: John Hamilton (Labour) 1979 – 1983: Trevor Jones (Liberal)
	Labour	1983 – 1987	1983 – 1986: John Hamilton 1986 – 1987: Tony Byrne
	Liberal	1987 (March – May)	Trevor Jones
	Labour	1987 – 1992	1987 (May – October): Harry Rimmer 1987 – 1990: Keva Coombes 1990 – 1992: Harry Rimmer
No overall control		1992 – 1996	Harry Rimmer (Labour)
	Labour	1996 – 1998	Frank Prendergast
	Liberal Democrat	1998 – 2010	1998 – 2005: Mike Storey 2005 – 2010: Warren Bradley
	Labour	2010 – present	2010 – present Joe Anderson

Now the council is much smaller because they now have a Mayor but  to have no councillors in an area where you were once a major power looks pretty awful

Election results by party Liverpool

Party name	Seats won	% of votes
Labour Party	27	58.09%
Green Party	2	10.72%
Liberal Party	1	4.51%
UK Independence Party	0	9.74%
Liberal Democrat	0	9.45%
Conservative Party	0	5.14%
Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition	0	1.22%
National Health Action Party	0	< 1%
Independent	0	< 1%
Old Swan Against the Cuts	0	< 1%
English Democrats "Putting England First"	0	< 1%
English Democrats "More Police - Catching Criminals"	0	< 1%

So back to Pete what does he comment on ...

"The paper quotes a 'comprehensive' Treasury analysis that found that the state pension would be less affordable in an independent Scotland unless it could attract almost half a million more immigrants.  Civil servants have calculated that Scotland would need the population increase over the next 20 years – the equivalent of a city the size of Edinburgh – because there are fewer workers north of the Border paying taxes to fund each OAP’s pension.
A separate Scotland would have to more than treble its projected annual net migration from 7,000 to 24,000 if the funding gap relative to the UK was to be closed, it said.
Without a steep increase in immigration, actuaries have warned that each worker would have to pay hundreds of pounds more in tax to make good the shortfall.

No doubt the SNP have allowed for this in their calculations".

One of the commentators pointed out that

Glyn Erasmus.
# posted by  Anonymous : 1:16 PM
Has it been discredited? I think not.
# posted by  Peter Black : 1:19 PM

So to help Peter I've this morning to pointed him to Wings over Scotland's comprehensive demolition of "this rubbish" I Hope he reads it.