While the rest of Britain's public-sector workers wait to hear where the new government's spending axe will fall, Scotland is already bleeding. In recent days three big health boards serving Glasgow, Edinburgh, and Dundee have said that about 3,700 jobs will go in the next two years. Glasgow University lecturers are likely to strike against plans to cut 80 of their jobs. For Alex Salmond, first minister of the devolved Scottish government, these developments are signs of a rapidly unravelling political strategy.
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