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09 Feb 15
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lets assume Cameron has the most seats and can't form a majority...and the Sturgeon and her band of so called left wingers save Cameron's arse..all those mugs who vote SNP and despise the tories would get quite a shock
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The SNP voted with the Tories to bring down the Labour government in 1979 and usher in a decade of Thatcherism.
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At least they've done something right
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Dennis skinner voted with snp,LIBDEMS voted with snp 1979
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They were once known as the Tartan Tories but credit to them they
sussed the Scottish electorate largely vote socialist so they moved left into Labour territory. Labour thought Scotland was their private fiefdom now they know different. |
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Politicans selling out?
HTEHB? |
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Thought it was funny the Scottish Green party throwing it's lot in with the SNP at the referendum, bearing in mind the Nationalist campaign was largely based on the glorious longevity of fossil fuel.
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The SNP will lead Milliband by the nose to extract whatever they want in THEIR (Scottish) national interest. Hard to see the next parliament lasting 5 months let alone 5 years!
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SNP is not very left-wing, although the new leader Sturgeon is to the left of Salmond. Their tax proposals are pretty big business friendly.
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wouldn't it be funny if the SNP sold out to the tories in May
No chance. .................................................................................................................................................................. The SNP voted with the Tories to bring down the Labour government in 1979 and usher in a decade of Thatcherism. Try telling the whole, true story. |
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Alias you've never told me what you think of your Paisley candidate.
You know the one, the 20 year old student who abuses people on twitter. She also says she was tempted to head butt the No campaigners at the referendum vote. Seems like a nice girl but can she throw a half brick far enough? |
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akabula you've never told me what "it's all based on a Braveheart theme" means. You know, your master
 referendum theory.How are things with your "local Libdem MP" by the way? You know, the one you help out canvassing for. |
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Ramruma
09 Feb 15 01:22 Joined: 11 Dec 02 | Topic/replies: 6,055 | Blogger: Ramruma's blog The SNP voted with the Tories to bring down the Labour government in 1979 and usher in a decade of Thatcherism. Nowt to do with the Libdems or the fact that millions and millions of English voters voted Tory? We hesitate to start with the incredibly bleeding obvious, but VOTERS elected the Conservatives in 1979, not the SNP. Had the electorate still wanted to have a Labour government, they’d have voted for one. - The previous Labour government was elected in October 1974. It would have had to call an election no later than October 1979 anyway. Few administrations, especially ones with tiny majorities, cling on to the last possible minute. They snap-call a vote whenever circumstances might give them a small advantage, and nobody holds a poll in cold, dark October if they can help it. So realistically, the vote of no confidence only hastened the election by two or three months. - The SNP contributed just 11 votes to the 311 which saw the no-confidence motion pass by the narrowest possible margin (one vote). Labour had been in a pact with the Liberals to give them a working majority, but when Labour declined to call an election in autumn 1978 as the Liberals wanted and expected, the pact ended and the Liberals voted with the no-confidence motion. Curiously, though, we’re unaware of Labour still furiously berating the Liberals for “ushering in” Thatcherism more than three decades later. - The Conservatives won the May 1979 election by over two million votes. The notion that James Callaghan’s embattled party would have turned that huge margin around in even five months is farcical. What is it that people imagine would have happened during those few weeks? - The first Thatcher government lasted just four years before calling another election, in May 1983, giving Labour their chance to take the country back. But the Tories won in a landslide, more than doubling their vote lead over Labour to four-and-a-half million and securing almost twice as many seats – 397 to 209. - Another four years later, Neil Kinnock made only a small dent in Thatcher’s lead, cutting it from 188 seats to 147, and even in 1992 John Major, written off before the vote, won a comfortable 65 seats more than Labour. - Had every single SNP vote gone to Labour in every one of those four elections, the Tories would still have won them all. http://wingsoverscotland.com/just-for-the-record/ |
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Well Alias as the white paper only contained one page of actual figures and wee eck continually refused to answer any questions on what currency would an independent Scotland use if refused the Pound all we ever got was rhetoric.
It was all about freedom for you, freedom from the Tories I remember you saying. Not much to hang your hat on is it. Anyways you lost. Have you been teaching the wee Paisley loonie how to throw a half brick. I think she'll be good with your tuition. |
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new labour are the tories?
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The SNP will go to bed with anyone to get a bit of power. The ****party.
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