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  • Edward TheJust
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    Nicola is intelligent, a great debater and kind of hot. I wish I lived in the U.K. so I could vote for her. She is the complete package.

  • nippysweetie3
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    Mikelheron20 Nicola Sturgeon is not talking about a COALITION with labour – what she proposed was a supply and confidence arrangement amongst the non Tory parties to lock out the Tories – I bet my bottom dollar that if the Tories get back in then Miliband will agree to a supply and confidence arrangement as that is the one and only way that Labour will wrest any power and influence – Labour need SNP, the Welsh and Greens or he is out in the wilderness for yet another term.

  • ConsideringPhlebas
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    Dude, seriously. The SNP are only interested in nominal independence, they could give two shits about national sovereignty. They want employment, agricultural, fisheries, health and safety, environmental policy, etc. to be decided by Brussels, educational policy decided by the UN and monetary and fiscal policy decided by the Bank of England. Can we please end this charade? The SNP ain't what every Yes voter wants it to be.

  • aremedy frosty
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    Ed Milliband came across very arrogant and smug in this debate as if he was sure he would be the next prime minister. The worst choice of leader Labour has ever made, an absolute goon who no one could relate to, a walking disaster of a man.

  • duncan sands
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    SNP get down to the northern English big city's there's big support for you!! i would vote for you!! (Leeds Lad) all the best in hunting Tory rabbits!!

  • Glider4
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    "It's about making our own choices and a say in the budget" ———- Despite the fact Scotland has at least twice the political representation per head then England does.
    "We get the worst of cuts" ———– BULLSHIT! Scotland has the highest public spending per head than anyone else in the UK: "2013/14, public spending per head in the UK as a whole was £8,936. In England, it was £8,678 (3% BELOW the UK average). Scotland: £10,275 (15% ABOVE the UK average). Wales: £9,924 (11% above the UK average). Northern Ireland £10,961 (23% above the UK average. Among the English regions, public spending per head was lowest in the South East at £7,756 (13% below the UK average) and highest in London at £9,866 (10% higher than the UK average). ^<– Source: parliament . uk _"Public expenditure by country and region". Public spending per head: Scotland £10,275, England £8,936… that's about a 20% difference in Scotland favour, with not even London getting that much. Now taxes; North Sea oil and gas aside, tax revenue in Scotland (£7,100 per person in 2012–13) looks much more like that in the UK as a whole (£7,300). Scots do pay £290 per year less in income tax on average, partly because incomes in Scotland are more equally distributed, with fewer of the very high-income individuals who provide such a large share of income tax revenue in the UK as a whole. But Scots contribute slightly more in VAT and in alcohol and tobacco taxes. The total taxes per head are (including the North Sea oil): Scotland about £10,000 per head (about 9.1% of UK tax revenue), while in the rest of the UK (couldn't find the estimation for England, Wales or NI) its £9,200 tax per head. Now lets let all that sink in for a bit, Scotland gets 15% more cookies (per head) then the rest of the UK, while it only gives 8% more (per head) in taxes, and that's only because they have oil. 15% more cookies, vs. an 8% increased bill… you do the math.
    Look, if you want a divorce, hey, take it (that means paying for yourself), but demanding your husband out of the house while also demanding he still carry you, yeah, that's not going to happen, its just not. Either eat your cake or keep it, because you can't do both.

  • klsar1
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    SNP will take every single seat in Scotland. They will become kingmaker on who gets to run United Kingdom. I don't understand why Ed is playing hard to get with Nicola.

  • GinSkimPivot
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    Scotland has every right to determine its own destiny, but none whateverto dictate the fully comp. English insurance.

    Population of England: 53.1 million

    Population of Scotland:5.2 million

    SNP arrogance and Scottish tribal obstinacy will see major corporations, investors, banks and defence industry employers playing safeand following the numbers. You may even see the oil infrastructure up there decimated on the back of new inland fields in the south of England, and the predicted drying and unsustainability of the North Sea sites.

    We can all joke and spar about so-called national identity, but only the true imbeciles think those differences are about a line on a map of one island land mass.

    Sturgeon: "I will never, ever do a deal with the Tories!"

    Keep that one close to the surface in the months ahead. She will eat that.

  • KasaiWolf07
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    If Miliband isn't going to enter into a coalition with the SNP then he dooms us to the Tories and it'll be nobody's fault but his own.

  • Boristhespie
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    What's with the elvow on lectern? Guess the focus group guris said it would make him less stiff, more human. Good luck with that ya wierdo

  • pdquick1
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    This ought to go down as the moment Ed Milliband lost the election. He's telling his own electorate in England he's not going to bother kicking the Tories out. So they stayed home, or worse yet voted for UKIP.

  • Corvustheone1
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    Beware, this is the woman who will bankrupt Scotland. I think Scotland should be independent, if you call going cap in hand to the EU independence, wooooo "Free Cheese!" lol