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But they won't be refusing to work with each other per se, it's just Miliband has called the SNP's bluff and effectively challenged them to vote down a Labour Queen's Speech and risk the Tories getting back in. If the smaller parties on the left align and agree amongst themselves to vote down a Tory budget and vote up a Labour one (which I hope the SNP will do if they have any sense, and what I think Ed is counting on) then that's not any kind of formal or informal deal, just an anti-Tory sentiment among the majority of MPs in the Commons and that they will do anything to prevent them getting back in. And if that's the way it works out, I see nothing illegitimate about that. I think that was Owen's point