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Tim Roll-Pickering · August 3rd 09, 11:12 PM posted to uk.transport.london

wrote:

A bit of personal P Hain spitefulness.

I seem to remember Labour trying to introduce it for Scotland as
well but failing, possibly because they were directly and openly
targetting Alex Salmond. They still haven't explained why various
Labour candidates for the London Assembly stood for both
constituency and list (e.g. Nicky Gavron).

I have to say I don;t remember it in Scotland, maybe because the Welsh
legislation was put through Westminster rather than Cardiff.

Wasn't the Scottish election also covered by Westminster legislation?
Certainly the issue came up a bit at PMQs with Scottish Labour MPs
expressing fake moral outrage that it was possible for this to happen. I
suspect the difference may have been the ability of other parties to make an
issue of this in Scotland compared to Wales.