Puppet on a String

Tory poster shows Nicola Sturgeon pulling Ed Miliband's strings

I can’t keep up with the Tories and the bashing of Labour leader Ed Miliband. This morning we had David Cameron on the TV telling us look to the ‘Eyes of May’ because the world will end if Labour come to power.

 

He is all excited about the new bogyman in the room, not the old one, the unions, but a greater and more deadly menace, the Scottish bunch from over Hadrian’s Wall the SNP. Has quick as Billy the Kid he whips out the SNP like some gunslinger shooting from the hip telling us Miliband will dance to the Scottish tune come May. Wait a minute, as he not been dancing to someone else’s tune for the last five years the only way he could govern, I think so.

 

The difference in the eyes of Cameron is the Liberal Democrats are a National party while SNP are Scottish based only. I can see his point! There is no way I want to see another coalition government but it’s on the cards. Will all this scaremongering push the Scottish labour voters who plan to vote SNP back into the fold again, I doubt it. If you are a Labour supporter, we just have to hope the polls have it wrong.

 

If Miliband doesn’t want to play with the Scottish bunch there is always the political chancers, the Liberal Democrats. If you listen to Nick Clegg he was the government for the last five years with everything under the sun down to him and his cohorts, everything good that is. However, while the SNP are looking at vote-to-vote support if you believe their leader Nicola Sturgeon’s. You can bet Clegg would want something as payment like jobs in the cabinet for him and a few others.

 

While Miliband and other Labour representatives are playing down any possible coalition, he will tell you he wants a majority government. He as to be upbeat for all those labour candidates standing north of the border.

 

Conservative chairman Grant Shapps said: ‘The only way that Ed Miliband might crawl through the gates of No10 now is if he’s carried there by the SNP.

‘Nicola Sturgeon would pull the strings and demand weaker defences, more spending and unaffordable welfare handouts. It would be a disaster.’

 

Off the back of Sturgeon’s popularity, the SNP leader will launch their party’s manifesto pledges in policy areas, which don’t even directly affect Scotland. A shopping list for Miliband to peruse even if he will say he is not for dealing and more ammunition to the Tories to bash Labour. She also gives an ‘absolute guarantee’ that she will not use success in this year’s General Election as a reason to push for another poll on breaking up Britain. She may not but what about the rest of her party.