Wednesday 10 December 2014

The Folks Back Home

I still do not believe that there is going to be a hung Parliament, in the event of which the DUP has in the last few hours announced that it would not participate in any coalition.

But there is little love lost between that party and the Conservatives, even if the DUP has now, at least for Westminster purposes, taken over the greater part of the old UUP vote. That was always a complicated relationship, anyway.

Despite the origins of much of their respective support, which has obviously not come from Labour when one considers how many people still vote for that party in the areas in question, the hatred of the Conservative Party is visceral within the SNP, within Plaid Cymru and within the Green Party.

Why, then, would they, or indeed the DUP and perhaps even UKIP, need to be offered anything at all by Ed Miliband?

They could, arguably should, and possibly would be told to support the Labour Government in the Division Lobbies,  or at the very least to refrain from opposing it if Labour were the largest party.

Or else to go back to their own activist and electoral bases, and explain to them why they had kept the Tories in instead.

Would another five years of David Cameron, George Osborne and Iain Duncan Smith hasten Scottish independence? Perhaps it would.

But plenty of people in Scotland, as everywhere else, would starve or freeze to death before they ever saw the Great Day. Would that really be a price worth paying?

4 comments:

  1. UKIP, as it has always said, would only do a deal with any party on the precondition of an immediate referendum on withdrawal from the EU and a referendum on the right terms.

    It has said that when asked whether it would ever do a deal with the Tories and once when asked if it could even do a deal with Labour in the NS.

    The two parties contesting this election the only one that offers a referendum is the Tories but theirs is too far away (1 million more EU migrants will have moved here by then, to give a small example) and Cameron doesn't say which way he would campaign if his renegotiation doesn't work out.

    Labour rules out any choice at all and its leader told the CBI that growing euroscepticism "endangers Britain".

    So neither Labour or the Tories offer any possibility of a pact for patriots like UKIP.

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    1. Its two or three MPs could stay at home, then.

      But if you believe that...

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  2. We're more interested in serious issues like restoring control of our borders and making our own laws, not your LibLabCon games.

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    1. Bless.

      Each of Labour and the Conservatives will have at least 200 MPs, and the Leader of one or the other will be the Prime Minister. That is just how it works.

      UKIP will not exist in 10 years' time.

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