I watched the first\u00a0 debate with the Scottish party leaders on Tuesday this week.<\/p>\n
It was in Edinburgh, giving Jim Murphy the chance to make a very sour comment\u00a0 that Nicola was not talking to an English audience, last week\u2019s debate in Manchester which Nicola won hands down.\u00a0 Jim of course would like to have been at that event but he wisna asked.<\/p>\n
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Nicola had the edge and the audience was more enthusiastic about her, Ruth Davidson was the usual flag waving Tory \u2013 union flag, not the Saltire, and Willie Rennie just seemed to meander from one topic to another.\u00a0 Ruth was not courting Willie. In many ways it was an opinion poll type debate, and a contest in what should be the outcome of the General Election.\u00a0 Nicola was up front, if the SNP had a large group of MPs and Labour had less than the Tories but could form an anti Tory alliance with the SNP, would Jim Murphy be amenable to that?\u00a0 He successfully avoided answering that, claiming his response was interrupted by Nicola!\u00a0 He kept wittering on about the last time the Westminster government was not formed by the largest party was 1924.\u00a0 He tried to dodge away from Labour\u2019s attempt in 2010 to cobble up a coalition with anyone;\u00a0 the move was frustrated as it would have meant talking to the SNP and Gordon Brown\u2019s boys refused to do that! And we only had 6 MPs!<\/p>\n
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Also I commented in the April Scots Independent that Alex Salmond overshadowed the last session of Prime Minister\u2019s Questions.\u00a0 What kind of havoc will he wreak\u00a0when he gets there!<\/p>\n
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Murphy said if we wanted a Labour government we should vote Labour and not SNP.\u00a0 Nicola\u2019s response was that only a strong group of SNP MPs would get the best outcome for Scotland, as that would hold Miliband to his promise \u2013 remember the Vow?\u00a0 On their own they would just forget about us.<\/p>\n
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Westminster does not recognise fairness when it comes to Scotland, it only recognises power.<\/p>\n
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The Unionist mob are fair upset that we did not pack up our tents and go away after the referendum result.\u00a0 Where have they been as the grassroots movement grew exponentially?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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