did you over spend...........NO?

[gozzer]

Cameron still might not get it all his own way, all it will take is another back bench revolt, and he will be looking to the UUP to save his bacon.

 

John

[Steve Walker]

I think a slim majority is good for democracy, John.

[corydoras]

Not sure what accommodations can be reached with the SNP which don't endanger the union!

 

Salmond will stand up, give a rousing speech, Snappers will make a lot of noise and then the government will win the vote every time. What the SNP needed to get concessions was a weak Labour government reliant on SNP votes to prop it up, which is why that's not what we got!

That would not happen. Nicola Sturgeon's credibility north of the border would have been right down the cludgy if she had propped up a Labour government in Westminster. She has a lot to loose between now and the elections next year. Do you really think she would be daft enough to jeopordise her position as First Minister to prop up Ed Milliband? SNP won, on big turnouts, on massive swings on votes from people who are fed up with Scottish Labour.

Edited May 15, 2015 by corydoras

[Steve Walker]

Her stated mission was to get the Tories out.

 

She had a chance of 59 seats, only one of which was Tory held. What plan, other than collaboration with Labour could she have had?

 

How else did she propose to "keep Ed Miliband honest"?

 

Labour ruled out coalition with the SNP, not vice-versa. Can you imagine the two major parties of the left allowing the Tories to stay in power if they could avoid it? If not as a formal coalition then as a minority government propped up on a vote by vote basis. And not for free.

[corydoras]

Dammit but your right you know. My old grandad would spin in his grave at the thought of it.

http://www.scotsman.com/news/politics/top-stories/sturgeon-won-t-rule-out-snp-and-labour-coalition-1-3599026

I must desist from posting after drinking Glengoyne

[Steve Walker]

Realpolitik I'm afraid.

[barry luxton]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-32771075

 

ahh the penny has dropped big cod:

 

Mr Cruddas's comments come as Mr Burnham, the shadow health secretary, called for a marked change in Labour's policy on Europe.

 

He told the Observer that if he becomes leader he will support a referendum on Britain's EU membership in 2016 in order to end the uncertainty for British businesses.

 

Mr Burnham said: "The country has voted now for a European referendum and under my leadership the Labour Party will not be a grudging presence on that stage.

 

Feel genuinely sorry for the people who have spent all their lives following and supporting a party who's future is being trashed by guys like this who even though the labour party is on it's knees, they want to make it even more less desirable:

 

Mr McCluskey himself said he was being used as a "bogeyman" and was not responsible for Labour's losses in Scotland.

 

He delivered a thinly-veiled warning that the unions' future support could not be taken for granted.

 

The party he said must demonstrate that it is "the voice of ordinary working people... the voice of organised Labour".

 

If it doesn't, he said "then the pressure will grow from our members to rethink".

Edited May 17, 2015 by barry luxton