Seeking asylum from England

I've made contact in recent months with asylum campaigners across the UK and one of them sent me the following message on Facebook last night. I thought I'd share it with you. And I told him he'd be very welcome.

"Standing joke at the moment - I kid you not - is that all we left-of-centre English are applying for asylum in Scotland."

An end to locking wee kids up?

I am hearing that part of the deal in this new coalition is that children will no longer be detained at "places like Dungavel". If that means children will no longer be held at Dungavel, it's a futile gesture because they will simply be taken immediately to one of the detention centres in England. But if by "places LIKE Dungavel" they mean all immigration removal centres, then that is the best news I have heard in a long time. It won't make up for living in Tory Britain but I know many people will weep with relief at the news. But it HAS to apply to all detention centres.

It'll all be better in the morning ...

I will be wearing black in parliament tomorrow. I haven't the heart for bright colours. It's a dark day for Scotland, a dark day for the whole of the UK and I'm very very worried. It's difficult to join in some of the more humourous discussions on Facebook about the fact that when we wake up tomorrow morning it will be to a new Tory Britain.

However, if you need cheering up for a brief moment, take a look at Facebook and the groups that are setting up in reaction to the news. My favourites at the moment are

"Gordon Brown should've resigned AFTER Eastenders" and

"I can't do this exam, I'm too stressed out about David Cameron being Prime Minister"!

I nearly can't do this blog for the same reasons! No doubt there will be more to say tomorrow and you never know, when we wake up it might all have been a communal nightmare!