The Election

Breadman wrote:All well and good, Hipster, but the fact remains that by having a workable majority in the House, Cameron doesn't need anything from your lot, so why would he bother offering Sturgeon any concessions on anything?

Your lot are just another minority party on the Opposition benches and he can (and probably will) ignore you.

If you seriously think that you're any closer to home rule than you were last night, I would respectfully suggest that that's bollocks.

And be careful what you wish for.

There's going to be an increasingly large degree of anti-Scottish sentiment peddled in the media after this result, as Cameron manipulates the press against your lot to further his agenda and the English public who had previously seen you lot as benign allies in all this will fall for it and when the next referendum on independence does come (and it will) a lot of English people will be putting pressure on the government to cede you fuck all and try and cripple Scotland if you lot do vote "yes" this time.

But you lot probably will vote "yes" to break up the Union next time and you may well wind up fucked as a result.

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Soul Kitchen wrote:

Hipster_Nebula wrote:

Breadman wrote:Quick (and serious) question for Hipster:

Are you not concerned that the SNP may have done a bit too well?

By that I mean, presumably, the plan was always to punish Labour and hopefully take enough seats so that if the Tories were the largest party at Westminster but didn't have a majority, they'd need support from you lot to get anything through Parliament.

However, it all went a bit too well and you wiped Labour out and, in doing so, handed the election to the Tories and gave them a workable majority in the Commons, so they don't now need your lot.

So yes, you may have fifty odd MP's sitting on the opposition benches, but they're powerless.

Can you see Sturgeon doing deals with whoever the next Leader of The Opposition is to try and claw back some of the power she hoped she would achieve by giving the Labour Party a bloody nose?

And do you think whoever the next Labour Leader is will be interested or will he or she be more focussed on taking Scotland back from your lot?

No malice in any of that, purely interested in your opinion, mate.

Labour wiped themselves out, they won't be able to rebuild until they realise that, and clearly they haven't considering some of the hateful and bitter comments their ousted MP's engage in on social media. 

not only did they lose Scotland with their arrogant and selfish campaign, they lost England with a weak leader and feeble economic policy. At least they convinced Russell Brand.

You can never do too well in an election, this result gives them power Ed wasn't willing to grant them, he played a game with the Scottish people and lost. Cameron wants English only powers and he'll know with that comes the kind of home rule we all want up here thats real power.

Dodged the question like Boris Johnson!

In fairness no he didn't.

Try reading it.

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