May 8th, 2010 05:11 pm (UTC) , tanngrisnir commented: On If it was a Scottish Labour guy who dismissed it, the answer is easy. Scottish Labour LOATHE the SNP. Them being so blinded by that they could do something stupid like this is not surprising. Reply · Thread May 8th, 2010 05:30 pm (UTC) , oedipamaas49 replied: On ah, thanks for the (possible) explanation Reply · Parent · Thread May 8th, 2010 05:40 pm (UTC) , tanngrisnir replied: On Seriously, a lot of Scottish Labour hates the SNP more than they hate the Tories. Reply · Parent · Thread May 11th, 2010 01:04 pm (UTC) , oedipamaas49 replied: On



if they're going to be petulant about the SNP, I don't see how they can hope to have any lib-lab coalition. They'll need those votes: even if they scrape together a notional majority, at some point there will be rebellions or defections, and they'll have to rely on the nationalists. Silly buggers. yep, looks like it, judging by Douglas Alexander: http://www.scotsman.com/news/Labour39s-Douglas-Alexander-34can39t-envisage34.6286290.jp if they're going to be petulant about the SNP, I don't see how they can hope to have any lib-lab coalition. They'll need those votes: even if they scrape together a notional majority, at some point there will be rebellions or defections, and they'll have to rely on the nationalists. Silly buggers. Reply · Parent · Thread May 11th, 2010 01:23 pm (UTC) , tanngrisnir replied: On There's a lot of problems with a LIbLab agreement just now. The Labour attitude to the SNP (which isn't just that Labour are Unionist, or would lose any chance of forming a UK government without Scotland: in Scotland, SNP are the party's main opponents, and if anything are to the *left* of Labour; to many Labour people in Scotland, it was inconceivable that Labour wouldn't be in power in Holyrood, and they hate the fact that the SNP have formed a government), that's just one. There's also the attitude of a chunk of Labour to PR. This also includes a lot of Scottish Labour MPs, who would lose their sinecures if the voting system changed. Like the Tories, they think if there's a change to PR, they will never govern alone again, and governing alone is what they really want to do. Reply · Parent · Thread