Definitely not. SNP will try and break the UK up again. It is flawed passion. I appreciate it and can see why people fall for it but it is going to do more harm than good.
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Definitely not. SNP will try and break the UK up again. It is flawed passion. I appreciate it and can see why people fall for it but it is going to do more harm than good.
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Ed Miliband may as well quit now as he's handed either a slim majority to the Tories or another coalition as we've had.
He is not an inspiring leader and he never will be.
He is not an inspiring leader and he never will be.
You really think we would vote out in a referendum!
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He's kicked the arse out of it but he didn't inherit a healthy economy either. Labour didn't cause the crash but their profligate spending on the utter fallacy of infinite growth and no boom and bust would be a nightmare for any incoming government.
The economy the coalition inherited was growing faster than it is now. The last Labour quarter of growth was 1.0%, the one before 0.6%.
Prior to the crash, Debt-to-GDP was lower than Labour inherited. How is that an utterly profligate nightmare for any incoming government? The rates offered were, and are, ludicrously low. This doesn't speak to a country mortgaged to the hilt. The fact is that Brown and Darling dealt with a huge crisis on both the domestic and international level with enormous competence and handed over a country on the path to recovery to Cameron and the coalition promptly and completely trashed it. It was only after George finally rolled back his failed austerity to the degree that Darling has originally proposed and pumped up the housing bubble that they managed any growth at all.
Yes, Debt-to-GDP is moderately high compared to historical levels but there is, and was, no acute crisis.
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Cant cope with another 5 years of Cameron and his lackeys.
Looks like its going to have to be a labor vote just in case they actually stick with their promise of cancelling the bedroom tax...
Looks like its going to have to be a labor vote just in case they actually stick with their promise of cancelling the bedroom tax...
SNP want to prove they can be trusted, then at the next election they go for a referendum mandate. Break up the UK? Nope, they need the referendum to do that and they won't stand a chance if they don't behave at Westminster. They are getting a bit of a vote to punish labour, don't think for a second that vote won't swing back if the SNP fixate on a referendum or start playing silly buggers down south.
SNP are trusted at Holyrood, they need to prove they can be at Westminster too.
I voted YES in the referendum, we lost - that means we need to be part of the UK and I won't vote for SNP again after this election if they cannot act like exemplary politicians at westminster
It would be the ultimate test for them to behave with Conservatives in power as it seems to be the way it is heading now.
Abstaining is not saying no, so ultimately it wouldn't matter who was the front of the coalition/alliance whatever, the SNP have disproportionate say on things and can easily get away with not harming their image.
Funny parliament incoming.
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/ramesh-patel/deficit-myths_b_7157848.html
Good link about the lie of deficit..
Good link about the lie of deficit..
Just watched it on iplayer.
I thought Nick was the best in actually answering the questions asked rather than rattle off statistics.
Cameron delivered the best, even if it was evading the direct questions.
Ed just looked like a deer in the headlights, he may as well not even turned up.
I thought Nick was the best in actually answering the questions asked rather than rattle off statistics.
Cameron delivered the best, even if it was evading the direct questions.
Ed just looked like a deer in the headlights, he may as well not even turned up.
Only if the SNP are willing to actively block anyone other than Labour (as in, they could abstain when it comes to any confidence motion re: a Tory+ coalition, whilst telling Labour they need to negotiate with the SNP to change that). The idea that the SNP would block anything other than a Labour government is by no means certain, so you shouldn't keep asserting it's 'basically impossible' we'll only get Labour in some form.
SNP will vote no for Tories. If they don't vote yes to.labour they will force a re-election to which the SNP almost certainly can't gain seats and there is a high risk of the Tories getting in power. Thus they have no choice apart to vote yes for labour, which is exactly what the experts are predicting.
There is only extremely small odds the Tories can create a rainbow coalition majority
No it wont because if labour and SNP vote no then they will out number the conservatives, and pretty much every conservative coalition you can think of. That in itself do t gut aree SNP will vote yes fo Labour.if they are.not part.of a coalition, but that will just force a re-election
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