Scottish Labour (21/12/14)
Support for the SNP has surged to record levels according to a new YouGov poll.
Apparently some 47% of voters in Scotland now back the SNP, against 27% who support Labour, 16% who back the Conservatives and only 3% sticking with the Lib Dems.
So the SNP’s support is up 27% on its 2010 figure and if the mood of Scottish voters holds time until May 2015, there will be fewer Labour MPs heading back down to Westminster which would be a good thing if you ask me.
Because no single party is going to win a majority of MPs at the 2015 election - the largest party will either be the Conservatives or Labour who will have to form a minority government or, more likely, enter into some kind of Coalition Government similar to the Conservative/Lib Dem alliance that has been running the country since 2010.
Now I'm not an SNP member and don't even class myself as an SNP supporter, but in the messy negotiations that will follow another 'hung' Westminster Parliament I suspect that the SNP will be much better at standing up for Scotland's interests than Labour whose Scottish contingent of MPs are a pretty dire bunch who have been largely invisible over issues like equal pay.
Take North and South Lanarkshire, for example, where the fight for equal pay has raged fiercely during the lifetime of the present Westminster Parliament - what have the local MPs or the Scottish Labour leadership had to say about equal pay?
Not a 'cheep', as they say and if you ask me that's why Scottish Labour deserves a bloody nose from the voters because the party in Scotland has lost the ability to stand up and be counted and its MPs at Westminster are really just cannon fodder who have little, if anything, to show for their collective efforts.
Apparently some 47% of voters in Scotland now back the SNP, against 27% who support Labour, 16% who back the Conservatives and only 3% sticking with the Lib Dems.
So the SNP’s support is up 27% on its 2010 figure and if the mood of Scottish voters holds time until May 2015, there will be fewer Labour MPs heading back down to Westminster which would be a good thing if you ask me.
Because no single party is going to win a majority of MPs at the 2015 election - the largest party will either be the Conservatives or Labour who will have to form a minority government or, more likely, enter into some kind of Coalition Government similar to the Conservative/Lib Dem alliance that has been running the country since 2010.
Now I'm not an SNP member and don't even class myself as an SNP supporter, but in the messy negotiations that will follow another 'hung' Westminster Parliament I suspect that the SNP will be much better at standing up for Scotland's interests than Labour whose Scottish contingent of MPs are a pretty dire bunch who have been largely invisible over issues like equal pay.
Take North and South Lanarkshire, for example, where the fight for equal pay has raged fiercely during the lifetime of the present Westminster Parliament - what have the local MPs or the Scottish Labour leadership had to say about equal pay?
Not a 'cheep', as they say and if you ask me that's why Scottish Labour deserves a bloody nose from the voters because the party in Scotland has lost the ability to stand up and be counted and its MPs at Westminster are really just cannon fodder who have little, if anything, to show for their collective efforts.
