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Labour Supporters, Would You Take Power At Any Cost?
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Vote Labour get SNP working Ed like a Orville the duck! In westminster no one can hear you scream!
Vote Labour get SNP working Ed like a Orville the duck! In westminster no one can hear you scream!
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A coalition with the SNP would destroy the labour party.
Can you imagine how poverty stricken labour towns would react if they saw buckets of cash wheeled over the border whilst they struggled? On many issues back bench labour MP's would have the choice: Tow the Party line and be out on their harris come next election or vote against their party to retain local support.
Not being a labout supporter, I'm afraid I cannot answer your Q though TTT.
Can you imagine how poverty stricken labour towns would react if they saw buckets of cash wheeled over the border whilst they struggled? On many issues back bench labour MP's would have the choice: Tow the Party line and be out on their harris come next election or vote against their party to retain local support.
Not being a labout supporter, I'm afraid I cannot answer your Q though TTT.
After having seen Sturgeon perform on the TV debate last night, my respect for her has grown enormously ! She is very feisty and looks to be very electable. She has already said that she will do everything in her power to fight against the Tories, and going into some kind of ad hoc arrangement with Labour after the Election is the only and best way of achieving that.
Coalitions are rarely announced beforehand....after all, I don't remember Cleggie giving his undying love for dave before the 2010 Election !
Whichever way you look at it, dave is on the ropes, and he knows it. The back benches beckon !
Coalitions are rarely announced beforehand....after all, I don't remember Cleggie giving his undying love for dave before the 2010 Election !
Whichever way you look at it, dave is on the ropes, and he knows it. The back benches beckon !
//After having seen Sturgeon perform on the TV debate last night, my respect for her has grown enormously ! .......She has already said that she will do everything in her power to fight against the Tories, and going into some kind of ad hoc arrangement with Labour after the Election is the only and best way of achieving that. //
To the detriment of the country as a whole. What's to admire about that?
To the detriment of the country as a whole. What's to admire about that?
Nicola Sturgeon--Sensible!!
This is the woman who would spend our money on lowering the pension age in Scotland. Why is that? She bleats that the Scots have a habit of dying at an earlier age than the English. Well how unfair is that then?
Perhaps she would do better to get the Scottish NHS educate on the poor diet in Scotland that leads to a higher than normal death rate in the UK due to coronary disease and alcohol abuse.The dental health of the Scots leaves a lot to be desired as well.
A sensible person would address the problem of an early mortality rate rather than chuck other peoples money into adjusting the pension age.
BTW. Not a rant against the Scots.Just pointing out facts. My F.I.L is Edinburgh born and bred.Studied at Edinburgh University and is a G.P.He gave me these figures and they are easy to find on google.
This is the woman who would spend our money on lowering the pension age in Scotland. Why is that? She bleats that the Scots have a habit of dying at an earlier age than the English. Well how unfair is that then?
Perhaps she would do better to get the Scottish NHS educate on the poor diet in Scotland that leads to a higher than normal death rate in the UK due to coronary disease and alcohol abuse.The dental health of the Scots leaves a lot to be desired as well.
A sensible person would address the problem of an early mortality rate rather than chuck other peoples money into adjusting the pension age.
BTW. Not a rant against the Scots.Just pointing out facts. My F.I.L is Edinburgh born and bred.Studied at Edinburgh University and is a G.P.He gave me these figures and they are easy to find on google.
Nicola Sturgeon---Sensible!!
Have we not, in the past,heard the natives of Cornwall and North Wales announce their outrage at the shortage of housing stock for their younger generation due to the English buying up holiday homes which remain empty for most of the year. I believe,as an Englishman,they have a valid point.
Sturgeon claims Farage is the bogeyman because he states the obvious.We cannot pour a quart in to a pint pot any more than we can allow thousands of immigrants to flood this country year after year without the necessary housing and infrastructure to support them.
By definition Nicola Sturgeon might as well say the Cornish and North Welsh are Racist bogeymen as well. I haven't noticed her leaping forward to announce new towns will be built in the beautiful highlands and glens of her country to alleviate the over crowding down South.
Have we not, in the past,heard the natives of Cornwall and North Wales announce their outrage at the shortage of housing stock for their younger generation due to the English buying up holiday homes which remain empty for most of the year. I believe,as an Englishman,they have a valid point.
Sturgeon claims Farage is the bogeyman because he states the obvious.We cannot pour a quart in to a pint pot any more than we can allow thousands of immigrants to flood this country year after year without the necessary housing and infrastructure to support them.
By definition Nicola Sturgeon might as well say the Cornish and North Welsh are Racist bogeymen as well. I haven't noticed her leaping forward to announce new towns will be built in the beautiful highlands and glens of her country to alleviate the over crowding down South.
With the result not yet decided, let alone the negotiations that will almost certainly follow, it seems to early to go for the "at any cost" line. Labour may well hold a tough line with the SNP and avoid making some sort of dodgy "throw everything at Scotland" deal. And, equally, who's to say that Cameron won't find some coalition to prop himself in power at the expense of being dragged way over to the right?
Not to say that the latter is more likely, somehow, but it seems a bad idea to fight an election campaign based mainly on second-guessing what follows hypothetical negotiations. Shouldn't the Tories be working on selling their record in the last five years? All this negative politics is very frustrating.
Not to say that the latter is more likely, somehow, but it seems a bad idea to fight an election campaign based mainly on second-guessing what follows hypothetical negotiations. Shouldn't the Tories be working on selling their record in the last five years? All this negative politics is very frustrating.
I might be wrong but in the event that Labour scrapes through, an alliance with the SNP would appear to be a foregone conclusion. What would the alternative be? To form a one party government and hold another election in a few months time in the hope of gaining a workable majority? I don't think Labour would risk it simply because I do believe that, like their supporters, they will take power at any cost.
Going on figures for 2009-10, Scotland received £16.5 billion MORE in UK public spending than it contributed to total UK revenues.
That is roughly a subsidy of £3,150 per head (the population of Scotland is approximately 5.2 million.)
If the SNP enter into a coalition with Labour, even more money will flow North across the border
That is roughly a subsidy of £3,150 per head (the population of Scotland is approximately 5.2 million.)
If the SNP enter into a coalition with Labour, even more money will flow North across the border
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