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to think some of the Anti Scottish rhetoric in the media due to the rise of the SNP is frankly shocking?

152 replies

ssd · 20/04/2015 18:45

Scotland voted to stay in the UK, David Cameron and Ed Milliband wanted this, now it feels like they wish we hadnt.

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AgentProvocateur · 20/04/2015 18:45

Agree.

ItsAllGoingToBeFine · 20/04/2015 18:46

Agree.

onedirectionparent · 20/04/2015 18:48

Also agree

voluptuagoodshag · 20/04/2015 18:49

Oh boy do I agree. Isn't democracy a pisser when it doesn't go your way!

HirplesWithHaggis · 20/04/2015 18:52

+1

demystified · 20/04/2015 18:54

Ed Miliband?

The anti-SNP not Scottish rhetoric in the media is because it suits both the tories and the SNP.

The tories and the right wing media use the SNP to scare English people into voting for the tories. The SNP are more than happy to play upto this as the last thing they want is a Labour majority.

SagaNorensLeatherTrousers · 20/04/2015 18:55

I thought I've heard Nicola say a million times she wants the tories out? Is she lying?

demystified · 20/04/2015 18:56

Yes

cleanmyhouse · 20/04/2015 18:58

I found it really amusing that David Cameron gloated about Labour being finished in Scotland considering the Tories have been for decades.

voluptuagoodshag · 20/04/2015 18:58

Nonsense. Although Labour will never say it, if they have the most votes but no outright majority and the SNP are the next biggest party then they have no choice but to form a coalition with them. The SNP would never deal with the tories and vice versa so for the SNP to want the tories to win, denying them a chance to have a powerful say in Westminster would be political suicide

demystified · 20/04/2015 19:01

Why do they need to form a coalition with them? The SNP will never (again) help bring in a tory government as they have repeatedly said.

voluptuagoodshag · 20/04/2015 19:08

I mean SNP/Labour coalition. The SNP would never want a tory government

WizardofSnoz · 20/04/2015 19:10

Agree. But there is something to be said about taxation without representation these days as far as the English go....

ItsAllGoingToBeFine · 20/04/2015 19:10

I dont think the SNP want a (formal) coalition with anybody? As far as I know they have ruled out a coalition with both Cons and Labour.

What I would like to see is SNP propping up Labour minority government by supporting them in votes of confidence, but then voting for anything else depending on what they (SNP) think - no trading votes for compromises etc

However, I strongly suspect there will be a Lab/Con coalition to lock SNP out of any form of power.

demystified · 20/04/2015 19:12

You have to be kidding.

AgentCooper · 20/04/2015 19:12

Agree. Back in our boxes we go!

SagaNorensLeatherTrousers · 20/04/2015 19:12

So she isn't lying?

ItsAllGoingToBeFine · 20/04/2015 19:15

Of course she isn't lying - I am confused as to why anyone could think this election is some sort of pre-meditated stitch up between the Tories and the SNP.

CrystalCove · 20/04/2015 19:15

I need to stop reading the comments on the SNP articles on the DM website, it's like a car crash, talk of rebuilding Hadrians Wall to keep the "sponging freeloaders" away etc.

dementedma · 20/04/2015 19:16

No worse than the anti-English rhetoric during the referendum.

demystified · 20/04/2015 19:17
CrystalCove · 20/04/2015 19:17

Saga of course she's not lying about the Tories, why on earth would she!

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ItsAllGoingToBeFine · 20/04/2015 19:17

No worse than the anti-English rhetoric during the referendum.

As far as I am aware there was very little?

SagaNorensLeatherTrousers · 20/04/2015 19:18

That's what I thought, Crystal, but I've seen more than one person suggest it's some sort of weird trickery, which leaves me genuinely Confused.

demystified · 20/04/2015 19:22

It's not trickery, its politics. The SNP's best chance of splitting up the country is with a tory government. Especially if the UK votes to leave the EU.

That's what Nicola Sturgeon wants, independence. Everything else is secondary.

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