Salmond As Deputy Pm ?

[youngmafbog]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2883476/Labour-facing-electoral-wipe-Scotland-support-SNP-surges-record-high.html

Would that be right?

Will Milliband and Balls sell England, Wales and NI down the Swanee to get hold of the keys for No10?

//The SNP has indicated that in such circumstances, it would not prop up a Conservative-led government – but could offer support to Labour in return for a series of costly concessions.

Mr Salmond has already suggested his MPs are prepared to start influencing English laws on a ‘vote by vote’ basis to prop up a Labour government.

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[janbee]

If there's ever another referendum(and there will be) , then the entire UK should be allowed to vote. It affects the entire UK so we should ALL get a vote. IF, Lexie Salmond had let it happen in September, he would've got an overwhelming YES vote. He made a huge mistake there.
Yes, the SNP could very well hold the balance of power after the May election. Another coalition? Heaven help us all.

[New Judge]

I completely agree with janbee. It is a point I have been making since it was first announced thatthere would be a referendum. Since then it is now even more obvious that the question of Scotland's membership of the Union is of concern to the whole of the UK.

The situation regarding the "West Lothian Question" (i.e. Scottish MPs at Westminster being able to vote on matters that do not effect the Scots) will become even more outrageous than it already is when more powers are granted to the Scottish Parliament. Such is the shambles that devolution has produced.

A Coalition of any sort is hardly desirable (witness the last four and a half years) and the ridiculous "Fixed Term Parliament Act" (which was only introduced to quell the LibDem's uneasiness) now ensures that even if a Coalition breaks down (as this current one has) the Parliament will limp on for the full term. A Coalition of any sort with a single interest group such as the SNP would be an absolute nightmare.

[mushroom25]

it's difficult to know how an independent Scotland would now finance itself since north sea revenues are projected to be one fifth of those quoted by the SNP as justification for independence, and the Saudis have declared that the price of oil will fall to $20 a barrel before they will consider production cuts, by which time the UK oil industry will have been wound up as uneconomic.

[New Judge]

Yes, it would be interesting in the light of the recent price fall to see how "their" oil would sustain their spending plans. A new referendum manifesto would have to take this into account and might, unfortunately, make a "Yes" vote far less likely should it be restricted (as it certainly will) to the Scots.

[Old_Geezer]

I am unsure any party in their right mind would consider a coalition with an independence party such as the SNP. Unless they had a death wish and hope to be near wiped out for many elections afterwards.

[New Judge]

You'd be surprised what politicians will do to get their hands on the keys to No.10, OG.

[Zacs-Master]

Yes, some ot them would even defect to UKIP for gawds sake.

[dannyk13]

Salmond angling for deputy pm.Sounds a bit fishy.

[BlackadderV]

Don't forget there's a sturgeon lurking in the water.

[mikey4444]

It is looking increasingly likely that the Tories will lose next May. So when the Tories lose, it must follow that Labour must win, either outright or in a coalition with another Party. Whatever Mr Farage tells us, its always either the Tories or Labour...there is no other game in town !

So if Labour does a deal with the SNP, and there is an entailing fault, it will the fault of the people not to vote Tory in enough numbers !

So all you Tory voters here on AB, and from the little Poll that Ed did recently, that would appear to be most of you.....get voting and stop complaining...don't blame me or other Labour Party supporters !

[mikey4444]

Zacs...lol at 15:49....but only 2 traitors so far, not enough to make the apple tremble, let alone upset it !

[ludwig]

This is the only election I can remember where Labour, Tories and Liberals must all be dreading the outcome.

Labour must surely be hoping to lose rather than be a minority government having to rely on their enemy the SNP to prop them up (at a hefty price).
Losing would also give them a reason to get rid of Miliband.

[BlackadderV]

Remember that in the late 19C/early 20C governments were often dependent on the votes of the Irish nationalists, so nothing really new here.

[Old_Geezer]

Can't be bothered to check, but wasn't that the Irish "loyalists" ?

[jourdain2]

All getting very fishy - salmon and sturgeons etc.. Politics brings strange bedfellows and stranger results - which nobody, usually voted for!

[Quizmonster]

Haven't the 'fishy' references regarding Alex Salmond's and Nicola Sturgeon's names been done to death now? Here's another couple to have a bit of fun with for a change. In Scots Gaelic, Cameron means 'crooked nose' and in Scotland generally a cleg(g) is a horsefly or gadfly.
Try them for a while, eh? There are at least elements of relevance there, which is more than can be said of the pisciform aspect of the Scot Nat pair's names.