The Scottish Parliament

INDRODUCTION: The creation of a new Scottish Parliament has, undeniably, a serious impact on the people of Scotland - the strength of devolution lying in all three areas; administrative, financial and legislative - the only area of the devolved United Kingdom to hold such powers. The Scottish form of devolution was drafted upon the 1997 referendum which resulted in a 74.3% agreement on the creation of the Parliament and a 63.5% agreement that a Parliament should have tax …

…body. It is also argued that having a multi-party government is more representative of the people as over 50% of the electorates vote will end up in power. This is seen from the Labour-Liberal Democrat coalition at present; Labour receiving 36% of the total vote and the Liberal Democrats 14.5% inn 1999. Had Labour been allowed to stand in government singly they would have been delegates for less than half of the Scottish public. <Tab/>