Hung Parliament

Scarier then Jimmy Krankie

I have concluded that on 8th May we will see a hung Parliament much to my annoyance. I hate the idea especially because the ‘Party of Scotland’ hold the key to number 10 according to the polls.

It is really depressing for me the thought of months, weeks, and years with false smiles and plenty of backstabbing with politicians fighting over good news and blaming the bad on each other. Good news for newspapers and TV news who will have lots of column inches and TV time to fill.

I only hope that Labour leader Ed Miliband is big enough to shut the door on claim jumpers like Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg who will be fishing for a job in a possible Labour cabinet. It didn’t work for the Tories and the right wing press would love it just a bit less than if it was the nasty Scots.

It is like Winston Churchill inviting Adolf Hitler to sit in on the war council during the Second World War. I bet Prime Minister David Cameron would have loved to shut out Clegg and the rest of his other job hunters. But the greed to become PM was too much for Cameron and he snapped up the offer from Clegg, support for jobs.

The Scottish thing besides doing my head in as got me thinking who will be in charge of the SNP members of Parliament. Will it be party leader Nicola Sturgeon, who is not a Member of Parliament and won’t be after the election so can she lead the Scots in Parliament? On the other hand, maybe she can.

The most high profile SNP candidate expected to enter Parliament when it re-sits is former leader of the SNP Alex Salmond, worryingly. I don’t believe ‘wee’ Nicola will have an easy ride if Salmond is leader or head boy of the Scots in Westminster. There could well be clashes between the two has Salmond tries to put his stamp on Westminster where he will surely be the leader of the SNP in Parliament. It has to be killing him seeing what has happened to the SNP since he stood down as leader.

The leader of the SNP in Scotland will happily say she is not interested in an official coalition along the lines of the Tories and the Liberals but by vote-to-vote. Would Salmond like a title? Maybe Deputy Prime Minister if Miliband caves in on the pressure to do a deal with the SNP. The union ‘Unite’ are calling for Miliband to do a deal as well as some labour MP backbenchers who are not showing much loyalty to their brothers and sisters fighting in Scotland.