Latest opinion polls show Labour facing annihilation in Scotland.

[chalga]

Won't this mean that if Labour are the biggest party at an election,then they could make a coalition with the SNP,and maybe where UKIP think they will hold the balance of power,it will be the SNP that holds the balance of power?

[mossdog]

Its how they are swaying opinion I'm questioning!

 

For starters every time I hear Nicola Sturgeon mention Labour she refers to them as Conservative. It all seems to be bad mouthing and not debating, just like when trying to get Alex Salmond to answer a question he'd just rant off like a nasty child about everyone else being unfair, no substance!

They are basically just a parcel of rogues with there own vested interests........but no different to most politicians who know that everyone on this forum and throughout this sceptered isle, vote for there own vested interest.Nothing much alters.

[blake]

The Tories underestimated massively how much the Scots would appreciate being lied to post-referendum, again. Especially considering how close it was.

 

what is this. 55-45 is not a close result, in a two horse race like that. Had it been the final stage of a French presidential election, 55-45 would not be considered close at all but a very one sided affair, if maybe not an absolutely massive landslide.

 

the Scottish referendum felt to some like it was close, because it became closer during the campaign than most people thought that it would be before the campaign started. But the result itself, 55-45 is not and was not close.

[purdy]

Won't this mean that if Labour are the biggest party at an election,then they could make a coalition with the SNP,and maybe where UKIP think they will hold the balance of power,it will be the SNP that holds the balance of power?

 

Actually under our system it would require the opposition to win a majority. So effectively the government remains in power unless someone forces them to stand down. So following the results party leaders would be scuttling around working out what they could extract in exchange for a seat at the top table.

[tzijlstra]

what is this. 55-45 is not a close result, in a two horse race like that. Had it been the final stage of a French presidential election, 55-45 would not be considered close at all but a very one sided affair, if maybe not an absolutely massive landslide.

 

the Scottish referendum felt to some like it was close, because it became closer during the campaign than most people thought that it would be before the campaign started. But the result itself, 55-45 is not and was not close.

 

Nonsense, it was a hell of a lot closer than people initially anticipated. Try and brush it aside all you want, but the simple fact is that an enormous multiple of our PCC's electorate mandate went out and voted for independence of a part of the UK.

[purdy]

Nonsense, it was a hell of a lot closer than people initially anticipated. Try and brush it aside all you want, but the simple fact is that an enormous multiple of our PCC's electorate mandate went out and voted for independence of a part of the UK.

 

And it seems even more are keen for the SNP to gain more powers for the Scotish Assembley.

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/ca0d77f8-6044-11e4-98e6-00144feabdc0.html#axzz3Hoo4lWtG

 

Labour is facing a potential electoral wipeout in Scotland, with a new poll suggesting more than twice as many voters would back the Scottish National party in May’s UK general election.

 

The Ipsos Mori poll for STV found just 23 per cent of voters would back Labour if a general election were held immediately, compared with 52 per cent who would back the SNP. That would imply the loss of almost all the 41 Westminster seats Labour won in Scotland in 2010.

 

Such a result could kill the hopes of Ed Miliband, Labour leader, to form a government and would give the SNP unprecedented influence at Westminster despite the Scottish nationalists’ defeat in last month’s independence referendum.

 

“For Labour this is a massive shock,” said Mark Diffley, Director at Ipsos Mori Scotland.

Edited November 1, 2014 by purdy

[Happ Hazzard]

Too many Scots in Glasgow are totally reliant on Labour for their very existence for them ever to completely lose power in Scotland.

[Blackbeard]

"Two-thirds of Scots want another independence referendum to be held in the next 10 years while more than half think a vote on the country’s future should take place within just five years, a new poll has revealed."

http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/main-topics/politics/two-in-three-scots-want-fresh-referendum-vote-1-6927645

Some years ago the Irish voted against the EU, a year later they had another vote and this time accepted the EU treaty, let the Scots have another go and go.

[purdy]

"Two-thirds of Scots want another independence referendum to be held in the next 10 years while more than half think a vote on the country’s future should take place within just five years, a new poll has revealed."

http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/main-topics/politics/two-in-three-scots-want-fresh-referendum-vote-1-6927645

Some years ago the Irish voted against the EU, a year later they had another vote and this time accepted the EU treaty, let the Scots have another go and go.

 

That sounds like a plan. To be honest I favoured the union but the concessions that keep being handed to the Scots has cost more that it's worth.

It seems the SNP may well have enough MPs at Westminster come 2015 to be required in any coalition. No prizes for guessing what their demand would be. Would they be prepared to vote for Scottish MPs being excluded from voting on English issues in order to get it?

[Blackbeard]

Too many Scots in Glasgow are totally reliant on Labour for their very existence for them ever to completely lose power in Scotland.

 

Don't you believe it! "Glasgow - Yes 53.49% No 46.51%". The people of Glasgow voted by a majority to leave the Union.

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-29273491