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Thread #156792   Message #3697128
Posted By: GUEST,Allan Conn
26-Mar-15 - 10:28 AM
Thread Name: BS: scots - ye have to love them eh?
Subject: RE: BS: scots - ye have to love them eh?
Though HiLo the issue here is not over seperatism per se. It is over whether MPs from Scottish constituencies where SNP members have been voted in have a legitimate right to their voice in the UK parliament. We were told (by the English Tories amongst other) that we were better together and they wanted us to remain in the UK. But now we have things like Tory minister Grant Schapps saying that if the SNP members decided to side with Labour if they were only the second largest party then it'd be a "threat to undermine the gvt chosen by the British people" which of course is nonsense. If the SNP and Labour combined have more seats in the House than the Tories then that is because a higher number of British constituencies would have voted for one of those parties. You can't say "please stay in the UK but don't expect to try and have any kind of sway in the UK parliament"? It doesn't work like that.

I'm still baffled by a Question Time programme several weeks ago too where one of the audience asked the question "would a Labour/SNP alliance be a betrayal to the English people?" and the Tory on the panel said it would! I'm still trying to figure out what Nicola Sturgeon or anyone else in the SNP have ever done to English voters to warrant that.