Monday, 27 November 2006

Scottish Independance

Mike Smithson over at politicalbetting.com has an interesting article on the correlation between Scottish sporting success and SNP electoral success. This appears to have been denigrated slightly by posters claiming that to try and correlate the two is to do down the SNP and not treat them as a 'proper' political party. Whilst I have some sympathy for that viewpoint, I do believe that if nations can do battle on the sporting arena, they tend to be friendlier off it because of it. Simply looking at the way in which we seem to have constant sporting contests against the Aussies, both in the Ashes and Rugby, and then noticing the number of Aussies openly welcomed in London, is perhaps worthy of consideration.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Interestingly enough, this is how the French felt when they won the football World Cup in 1998. President Chirac's popularity rating shot up overnight, despite the fact that all he had done was shake the hands of the French football team after the game had ended.