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How English taxpayers will pay the price of a loser's coalition of Scottish and Welsh
Daily Mail ^ | May 11, 2010 | Daniel Martin and Ian Drury

Posted on 05/11/2010 5:06:35 AM PDT by C19fan

English taxpayers face being held to ransom by Scottish and Welsh nationalists in a 'rainbow' coalition to prop up Labour - despite having voted overwhelmingly for the Conservatives. Even though Labour and the Liberal Democrats have now entered talks over a possible deal, they will only get a Commons majority if they ally themselves with minority parties from Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. But these parties, such as the SNP and Plaid Cymru, have said they will demand their countries be protected from cuts as a price for keeping Labour in No 10. Although last week's election was inconclusive across the UK, in England the Tories gained a massive majority of 62 - and won nearly three million votes from Labour.

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TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; United Kingdom
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From the papers today, a Lib-Lab Losers coalition is looking more likely. Maybe the English should call the SNP bluff and offer a referendum on Scottish independence. The only thing propping up socialistic Scotland is English money. The main issue would be dividing up the North Sea oil and gas.
1 posted on 05/11/2010 5:06:35 AM PDT by C19fan
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To: C19fan
From the papers today, a Lib-Lab Losers coalition is looking more likely.

Somehow, it seems to me to be a lot of wishful thinking on the part of the British press.

2 posted on 05/11/2010 5:25:08 AM PDT by The_Victor (If all I want is a warm feeling, I should just wet my pants.)
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To: sauropod

read


3 posted on 05/11/2010 5:28:06 AM PDT by sauropod (Ill behaved women rarely make dinner.)
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To: The_Victor

I think this is likely to happen. And the best fruit of it will be an English Independence movement, kicking Scotland to the kerb.


4 posted on 05/11/2010 5:38:19 AM PDT by agere_contra
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To: C19fan

This is a perfect example of the dangers of third parties
both Labor and the Lib Dems lost seats despite “CleggMania” and yet the LIb Dems get to play kingmaker and right now effectively propping up Labor.
who knows whats going to happen over there now


5 posted on 05/11/2010 5:38:23 AM PDT by DM1
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To: C19fan

ping


6 posted on 05/11/2010 5:43:45 AM PDT by Ulysse (s)
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To: agere_contra
I think this is likely to happen. And the best fruit of it will be an English Independence movement, kicking Scotland to the kerb.

But even with a Lib-Lab coalition, they still don't have enough votes. They have to get the Scottish or Welsh or Irish parties (I'm not sure exactly how many votes each party has) to go along with them. I think it's going to be vastly more difficult to get three or four parties to agree on a ruling coalition than getting a Torie-Lib agreement. It's gonna be interesting to watch.

7 posted on 05/11/2010 5:48:45 AM PDT by The_Victor (If all I want is a warm feeling, I should just wet my pants.)
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To: C19fan

They are paying the price for Edward I’s conquest of Wales and for the Act of Union in 1707. Next stage: the United Kingdom of England and Northern Ireland. I suppose they would keep the Isle of Man too.


8 posted on 05/11/2010 5:49:02 AM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: C19fan

England should have its own Parliament too.

Let the Labour-LibDem Coalition be in power when the debt crisis hits.


9 posted on 05/11/2010 5:49:57 AM PDT by GeronL (http://tyrannysentinel.blogspot.com)
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To: DM1

Clegg wants proportional representation which would keep Lib_Lab in power forever


10 posted on 05/11/2010 5:52:25 AM PDT by GeronL (http://tyrannysentinel.blogspot.com)
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To: The_Victor

The SNP and Plaid Cymru and the sole Green Party MP are all socialists too. I am sure they’ll support the Lib-Lab.


11 posted on 05/11/2010 5:53:23 AM PDT by GeronL (http://tyrannysentinel.blogspot.com)
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To: C19fan

They need to turn Scotland loose. They have wanted their soverenty for centuries, give it to them.


12 posted on 05/11/2010 5:54:49 AM PDT by McGavin999 (There is no such thing as federal money-it's OUR money)
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To: GeronL

yeah i heard
he also wants to join the Euro - real good ideas these Lib Dems have eh ;)


13 posted on 05/11/2010 5:57:44 AM PDT by DM1
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To: Verginius Rufus
Getting beyond Edward I it is inescapable that it was George III who really screwed the pooch. Through the simple expedient of incorporating all the American colonies within the United Kingdom political structure (giving everybody a vote in Parliament) Scotland would have been reduced to a minor nuisance.

Instead, the pleadings of the Continental Congress were ignored and the gnomes in the Exchequer continued to drive Britain's American Policy.

Of course, had things gone better before the War England itself, would be a minor nuisance too ~ but emigration to America would be so much easier eh!

14 posted on 05/11/2010 6:03:57 AM PDT by muawiyah ("Git Out The Way")
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To: C19fan

you mean the same way that we’re eventually going to pay for a Losers Coalition of California and NY-NJ-New England??


15 posted on 05/11/2010 6:34:18 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: DM1

This is a perfect example of the dangers of third parties

At least in a Parliamentary system, they hash it out at the beginning and arrive at a coalition that hangs together for however long it can.

Under our system, a strong 3rd. party insurgency would force something like this to happen on every piece of legislation that came along.

(of course, it that had the effect of stopping Congress from doing anything, probably not a bad thing)


16 posted on 05/11/2010 6:38:46 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: C19fan

"FREEDOM!"

17 posted on 05/11/2010 6:39:51 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Buckeye McFrog

Incidentally if there is some sort of Lib-Lab coalition how long would it be before another election or would this be some semblance of a stable parliament?


18 posted on 05/11/2010 6:53:56 AM PDT by DM1
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To: McGavin999

1—Most Scots support the UK.
2—We JOINED the UK in 1707, we were not conquered into it.


19 posted on 05/11/2010 10:50:44 AM PDT by the scotsman
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To: C19fan

1—We in Scotland should call the SNP’s bluff.

2—’Propping up’ is simplistic.


20 posted on 05/11/2010 10:52:09 AM PDT by the scotsman
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