VOTE: Was Ed Miliband right to rule out any formal deal with the SNP?

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Miliband told the audience he 'couldn't be clearer' that there would be no deal between the two parties

 

There will be no Labour government if it involves a coalition or a deal with SNP, Ed Miliband said during last night’s special edition of leaders’ Question Time.

Miliband told the audience he “couldn’t be clearer” there would be no deal between the two parties.

But was he right to do so? Does this see off Tory attacks about the SNP ‘holding the country to ransom’? Or will it just make governing in the likely event of a hung parliament even harder?

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27 Responses to “VOTE: Was Ed Miliband right to rule out any formal deal with the SNP?”

  1. Mason

    I don’t think he had much choice.

    The Tories seem to have decided that breaking the union is worth short term electoral advantage and have succeeded in making Scotland, and it’s people, toxic in the eyes of most English people.

    Holding faith with the Scots in that climate, at a time when Labour are being removed from the Scottish electoral map could cost Ed many seats he can’t afford to lose.

    So, sad as it is to say, he had little option but to rule it out.

    The irony is that bringing the SNP into the fold of Westminster is actually the most effective way of blunting the independence sword and repairing the union.

    It seems that our Westminster politicians will not be satisfied until, this once great nation, has been converted to rubble.

  2. James Chilton

    The SNP is a left of centre party. It would make political sense for Miliband to make an alliance with it and defy the Tories.

  3. Mike Shepherd

    You know, the SNP has been in government in Scotland for eight years and very little has changed in terms of poverty and inequality and now we hear that standards of literacy have declined on their watch. Not very progressive and this idea that Sturgeon has moved the party to the
    Left requires more scrutiny over time.

  4. Gerschwin

    Chum, this great nation became rubble the moment it embraced the welfare state, you goons over at Labour HQ have been facilitating the decline ever since so don’t come whining to me.

  5. Leon Wolfeson

    Labour are right of centre, so why is that?

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