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Originally Posted by joeysteele

Scotland is still part of the UK and since the UK asks and expects the Scots to vote in westminster elections, then if the Scots choose to elect large numbers of the SNP, that is democracy.
They then should have every right to fight for Scotland and to influence all they can as to govt; at westminster as much as anyone else elected to westminster in a democratic election.

Why also should a party that has seen its voters almost wipe out entirely the Conservative representation there,then be expected to in any way help shore it up in govt;
For Scotland and Wales, the Labour party will be the main UK party that gets the higher support of the 3 present main parties n those countries,so why should the SNP and Plaid Cymru not be able to, as full members of the UK, work with the party more in line with their policies, and keep the one a world away from what they would like to see 'out' if they can.

Or is it that the UK just should have one form of govt;
No wonder we cannot get changes to the voting system in the UK with views like that,which would discriminate against parties legitimately elected in democratic elections for westminster, from 'all' the parts and all countries of the UK.

Joey, I put the 'Joker' emoticon on the end of my statement to illustrate it was a 'light-hearted' post.

That said, I would hate the thought of a Labour/SNP coalition government.

Labour -- A party which has had infinite terms in office, and who has NEVER delivered on its pre-Election promises, and who are as culpable as the Tories in initiating, continuing with, or supporting policies which have not only DAMAGED this country, but also inflicted great penury on the most vulnerable classes of society - the very class which they purport to be 'The Protectors' of.

The SNP -- A party whose very 'raison d'etre' is the fracturing of the United Kingdom, seriously 'passing themselves off' as THE most fitting party to govern that very same UK?

What a combination.

I'm sorry but I feel that after more than 60 years of the same tedious inefficiency, corruption and clueless-ness, it is time for a 'sea change'. Time to pull the rug completely from beneath the complacent feet of the big two. Time to give Nigel Farage a chance.

No sane impartial person can fault Farage on what he says he is going to do, and therefore, the only reasons his detractors 'hang out' there are wildly speculative 'boogeyman' scare stories of what he will do if he ever gets into power.

Once again, I am sorry but the above 'he might do' hypothesising does not persuade when held against the historical realities of the track record of what the Labour and Tory parties actually did and didn't do when they were in power. Especially when - if Farage does not deliver, or if he turns 'extreme' once in power - we have the vote to remove him, and any damage inflicted by such policies over one solitary term in office, is but a 'feather stroke' in comparison to 60 years of damaging 'non-government' from the other parties.