[Ross.]

Originally Posted by arista

Yes but he is taking responsibility



Labour should as well

I think Ed will be on his way out as well.

They're all dropping like flies.

[Crimson Dynamo]

Originally Posted by MTVN

Tim Farron must basically be a shoe in for leader

[Livia]

Miliband resigned.... can this day get any better?

[arista]

Originally Posted by Ross.

I think Ed will be on his way out as well.

They're all dropping like flies.

Yes Today
Ed Goes


Utter Bliss

[Crimson Dynamo]

The morning of the long knives

[MTVN]

My home seat of the Cotswolds confirming the Tory majority

[Livia]

I've been reading about the SNP's selection process. It was even more chaotic than UKIP's. Makes me wonder how well these SNP MPs are going to do. It'll be interesting...

[MTVN]

Originally Posted by Livia

I've been reading about the SNP's selection process. It was even more chaotic than UKIP's. Makes me wonder how well these SNP MPs are going to do. It'll be interesting...

That 20 year old girl who said she wanted to headbutt opponents and boasted on twitter about getting pissed off smirnoff ice and hurled abuse at Celtic fans and that aside she's still a student with over a year left on her degree. I doubt she appreciates the reality of what being an MP will be like once this tide of nationalism off the back of the independence referendum subsides

[Crimson Dynamo]

Originally Posted by MTVN

That 20 year old girl who said she wanted to headbutt opponents and boasted on twitter about getting pissed off smirnoff ice and hurled abuse at Celtic fans and that aside she's still a student with over a year left on her degree. I doubt she appreciates the reality of what being an MP will be like once this tide of nationalism off the back of the independence referendum subsides

she sounds like a keeper

[Livia]

Originally Posted by MTVN

That 20 year old girl who said she wanted to headbutt opponents and boasted on twitter about getting pissed off smirnoff ice and hurled abuse at Celtic fans and that aside she's still a student with over a year left on her degree. I doubt she appreciates the reality of what being an MP will be like once this tide of nationalism off the back of the independence referendum subsides

I'm going to give that girlie a year. And that's generous.

It reminds me of the County election when UKIP took lots of Norfolk County Council seats and they were like... Oh sh*t.........

[Crimson Dynamo]

Douglas Alexander

Originally Posted by Livia

I'm going to give that girlie a year. And that's generous.

It reminds me of the County election when UKIP took lots of Norfolk County Council seats and they were like... Oh sh*t.........

Douglas Alexander must have really put up a good fight

[bots]

It didn't matter who the SNP fielded as candidates, that's not what it was about in Scotland. This is an historic political moment, the UK will never be the same again

[arista]

330 now the Total of Conservatives


Life In The Fast Lane

[Crimson Dynamo]

perhaps we need to merge the tv thread into the election one and clean up the title?

[Livia]

She's 20. Even the oldest people on this thread can remember how half-cooked you are at 20, whether you think you're a great mind or not.

[Kizzy]

I think that's paying young people a great disservice..... most of the people in the commons are seriously overcooked!
I'm sure a percentage of the lords are dead but nobody has the heart to tell them.

[Kizzy]

As much as Nicola Sturgeon dislikes the tories she won them the election.

[Livia]

The Conservatives won the election. Labour Lost it. If every SNP seat had gone to Labour they'd still have lost it.

[Livia]

Originally Posted by Kizzy

I think that's paying young people a great disservice..... most of the people in the commons are seriously overcooked!
I'm sure a percentage of the lords are dead but nobody has the heart to tell them.

Let's see how she performs then. The proof of the pudding and all that.

[Kizzy]

Originally Posted by Livia

The Conservatives won the election. Labour Lost it. If every SNP seat had gone to Labour they'd still have lost it.

I meant with her ridiculous challenges to Labour, that gave the tories the bullets to fire imo.

[kirklancaster]

''Your mission Kirk, should you choose to accept it,is to make a post which does not disappear in 60 seconds.''



Cue Music:

[joeysteele]

Originally Posted by Kizzy

I meant with her ridiculous challenges to Labour, that gave the tories the bullets to fire imo.

It was fear over hope again Kizzy.

I feared far more a govt; with the DUP as any part of it than one with the SNP.
The SNP want fair policies for all, the DUP were one of the most divisive parties of the whole UK.

However, you have said said something there that makes me think.
If she is on the independence route again, and John Swinney, refused to say on TV today, that the SNP will 'not' have a independence referendum pledge in their manifesto for holyrood elections next year.
Then with a Conservative govt; in place,she can start to complain and moan endlesly at just about all legislation they bring forward that affects Scotland.

She is already arguing that the Scots have overwhelmingly voted for 'no austerity' and since she has got 56 out of 59 seats,this govt; will have to be very careful indeed what it now proposes for Scotland as to austerity.
They will have to do it, otherwise not to do austerity in Scotland but in the rest of the UK, would cause this govt; near chaos.

She was always going to win, whether there had been a Labour led govt; which she rightly or wrongly believed,she could maybe influence.
Or in the case of a Conservative led coalition again a govt; she could endlessly disagree with.
This govt; is ideal for her independence cause, far more than a minority govt; or coalition would have been.

Ed Miliband was dead right to rule out all formal deals with the SNP and to chalk out a path of calling their bluff.
Sadly that fell on deaf ears with the voters, who preferred again to follow the fear over hope agenda of the present govt:

You made a really strong point Kizzy as to her loading guns for others to fire.
The only thing I am pleased about is she has again cornered herself in as to dealing with this govt:
Once they try to start again with austerity and particularly welfare cuts. She has said the Scots have given her a mandate against same,so will have to really cause a stink,should or when they try, to impose any such measures on Scotland now.
A 12 overall majority could yet bring about more problems for this govt; than it will ever ease.

[Kizzy]

50 odd seats isn't enough to block anything, the tories will thank Scotland by royally screwing them and Nicola will have to stand and watch with the rest of us.

[joeysteele]

Originally Posted by Kizzy

50 odd seats isn't enough to block anything, the tories will thank Scotland by royally screwing them and Nicola will have to stand and watch with the rest of us.

Then she will have cause to put the independence referendum back on the agenda, if she does and wins an overall status again in Holyrood.
She will have the right to demand a new referendum from this govt:.

Which David Cameron would hate to have to preside over again,especially if it was brought about because he had chosen to ignore the election result in Scotland.

He could still yet go down as the Prime Minister that disastrously presides over the break up of the UK, and also who sleepwalks the UK out of the EU too.
Because I really believe an independence referendum would be easily won ,even now.

[Kizzy]

I don't understand how she'd get even a proposal for a referendum through Joey?