Would The Snp Do A Deal With The Tories?

[ToraToraTora]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-30623652

[mikey4444]

No !

[ToraToraTora]

well they can't do one with Labour mikey!

[jim360]

Why can't the SNP deal with Labour? Seems that they think they can...

[ToraToraTora]

Because a lot of the SNP seats would have been gained at the expense of Labour so it would be a smack in the mouth to those voters if the SNP then got into bed with Labour. I don't think the SNP would like to alienate their supporters within 5 minutes of the election. QED they'll have to deal with the Tories if they are going to get some power.

[BlackadderV]

The nightmare scenario will be if Labour/SNP seats are still not enough to give a majority but Tory/SNP seats are. Things could get very messy.

[jim360]

That may be so, but the Tory brand is even more toxic in Scotland than Labour is, so I don't think your argument holds.

[mikey4444]

TTT....Wee Nicky has made it quite plain that she will not do any deal with the Tories. I am yet to be convinced that the SNP is going to get this big wodge of seats that people are now saying that they will. The YES campaign won last years referendum fairly convincingly, so where has all this pro-SNP support come from all of a sudden ?

The Tories are dead and buried north of the Border, and its counterintuitive to believe that the SNP would do anything to accommodate them. It is looking increasingly likely that Labour will form some kind of coalition Government after next May, and in my opinion it will do that with the LibDems, together with the SNP if necessary.

Happy New Year by the way....I am struggling with sub-flu symptoms today...what a way to start 2015 !

[BlackadderV]

I don't think the LDs are going to be much help as the one thing I can confidently predict is that the SNP will have more seats than them - they will be just a rump, if that.

[Gromit]

I think they have already said they won't.

Something to do with Cameron gloating the day after the 'No' vote.

[dannyk13]

If the SNP do a deal with Labour would the Tories then do a deal with UKIP?

[grumpy01]

Although it is very likely that Labour will have the most seats I don't see Lib dems having more than a handful of seats on May 8th and hopefully Nick Clegg will not be one of them.

[ToraToraTora]

did the YES campagne win? I missed that! HNY mikey.

[mikey4444]

We mustn't forget that after the landslide Labour victory in 1997, there were no Tory MP's north of the Border, or over Offas Dyke whatsoever, and it hasn't changed very much since. There is still only one Tory MP in Scotland, and it would be easy to come to the conclusion that people up there really don't like them very much. dave's gloating and talk of "purring" didn't exactly help.

But I am still unconvinced by all this talk of the march of the SNP.

[mikey4444]

Beg pardon TTT...Paracetamol overdose apparently ! I meant NO of course !

[mikey4444]

In my humble opinion danny, any talk of anyone doing a deal with UKIP is still in the realms of fiction. A third party, like UKIP has an enormous hill to climb to get any, let alone many MPs elected under our first-past-the-post voting system, even if they are supposedly so popular. Coming second or third in any seat is entirely irrelevant.

[THEMOTLEY1]

//Wee Nicky has made it quite plain that she will not do any deal with the Tories//
'Well she would say that, wouldn't she?'

[BlackadderV]

Unless Sturgeon stands for and wins a Westminster seat herself, her influence will be negligible.

[Gromit]

It wouldn't really be a smack in the mouth for SNP voters. People voting SNP know it is impossible for them to win and form a Government. But to join a coalition in exchange for co sessions on Independence would mean SNP voters getting exactly what they want.

[Gromit]

// The SNP will "never, ever" go into coalition with the Conservatives Nicola Sturgeon has said as she prepares to become Scottish First Minister.
She said that the party will never agree to prop up a Conservative Government if they fail to get an overall majority in May as that would deliver a Tory government to Scotland. //

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/scottish-independence/11230432/SNP-will-never-ever-prop-up-a-Conservative-government-Nicola-Sturgeon-says.html

I wish the LibDems had been equally honest before they fraudulently got my vote in 2010.

[Slapshot]

Mikey.... come north and watch it.... The SNP will take 40 seat's in May they will bargain with the party that WILL give them what they want most, Devomax or a second referendum.... that 5% just might be there after the gloating of Cameron and instant backtracking of Millibland.... LAbour and Tory are both dead, Lib dem might be all that stops Scotland being a one party country in a few years