Election results are good - Blair!

[Stan]

Blair doesn't care, he is out of there. Gordo on the other hand will wonder why he spent the last few years brown nosing when he realises what Blair has left him.

[lilelvis2000]

You always know when Blair is bullsh1tting - his lips are moving

The man is either completely delusional or is BSing and acting big time. He'll make it big in the US. Rumor has it he's already nailed down £10M for his first year speaking tour.

[Troll]

I have been back in Scotland for only a few months - and already I have seen the ending of Labours dominance as its their first defeat since 1959 in Scotland - and the destruction of the Scottish Socialist Party who failed to win a seat - here's to a Scotland of innovation and enterprise - a socialist free zone !

And - I did predict this scenario a few months back on a thread here - a one vote majority perhaps - but its still a majority.

Well done SNP for enidng the New Labour project !!!!

...and sent Blair homewards - to think again

So you wouldn't say the SNP has a whiff of Labour in its policies?

[stackpole]

There will be another election up in scotland because the SNP can't work with anyone.

[AlfredJPruffock]

So you wouldn't say the SNP has a whiff of Labour in its policies?

Well - lets look at their key SNP and Labour policies for this election

Trident : Labour For - SNP against
Council Tax : Labour Retain :SNP - Abolish
Iraq War : Labour :continue : SNP - Withdraw

So if its a whiff - it must be a rather faint one.

BTW did anyone read about the unfortunate Tory MP in England who did not receive a single vote ?

[threaded]

BTW did anyone read about the unfortunate Tory MP in England who did not receive a single vote ?

That'd be Shirley 'nul poin' Bowes for New Trimdon and Trimdon Grange

[AlfredJPruffock]

The man is either completely delusional or is BSing and acting big time. He'll make it big in the US. Rumor has it he's already nailed down £10M for his first year speaking tour.

Yes, yes and yes.

I have often mentioned on this site over the last four years that the entire UK foreign policy has been sacrificed to please the US solely to ensure that Blair becomes a millioniare courtesy of the US speaker college circuit tour - that is all he has ever wanted - and doesnt care what the consequences are of his vainglorious actions.

[wendigo100]

BTW did anyone read about the unfortunate Tory MP in England who did not receive a single vote ?

MP? How did he get in without any votes?

Typical government, it's one rule for one, another rule for the rest of us!

[AlfredJPruffock]

MP? How did he get in without any votes?

Typical government, it's one rule for one, another rule for the rest of us!

Whoops - candidate rather than MP !

[Troll]

Well - lets look at their key SNP and Labour policies for this election
Trident : Labour For - SNP against
Council Tax : Labour Retain :SNP - Abolish
Iraq War : Labour :continue : SNP - Withdraw

So if its a whiff - it must be a rather faint one.

BTW did anyone read about the unfortunate Tory MP in England who did not receive a single vote ?

Talking more about the detail rather than the headline grabbers
Scottish government
* A referendum on independence for Scotland.
* Deliver annual efficiency savings of 1.5% per year and free up £1.1bn for reallocation to new national infrastructure projects.
* Ensure 70% of released resources go to improving frontline services and 30% to lower local tax.
* Cut Scottish Executive departments from nine to six.
Economy
* Remove business rates from 120,000 Scottish small businesses and cuts for a further 30,000.
* Replace council tax with a local income tax, with a rate set at 3p.
* Cut red tape and widen access to public sector contracts for small businesses.
* A £2m fund to promote Scottish work at the Edinburgh festivals.
* £10m scheme for new entrants to farming.
* Move to secure quota allocation from decommissioned fishing vessels for active ones.
Transport
* "Substantial" investment in rail infrastructure and additional steps to tackle congestion.
* "Early delivery" of a new Forth crossing.
* Commission a study into Road Equivalent Tariff, with a pilot in the Western Isles.
Environment
* New targets for carbon reduction.
* Higher building standards and efforts to increase energy efficiency.
* Support community and household energy generation and develop local heat and power grids.
* Proposed legislation to reduce Scotland's "carbon footprint".
Health
* Give patients legally binding waiting times.
* "Presumption against" centralising core hospital services and protect access to local healthcare.
* Direct elections to health boards.
* Phase out prescription charges.
* Annual health checks and individual health plans for school pupils with a doubling in the number of school nurses.
* School-based dental service.
* Free school meals, starting with youngest children.
* Two hours of physical education per week for every pupil and free access to council swimming pools.
* Individual health plans for men and women from the age of 40.
* Additional funding for young carers.
* Increased payments for free personal and nursing care in line with inflation.
Communities
* First time buyers' grant of £2,000 and a fund to provide shared equity loans to first time buyers.
* Devolve power to local levels wherever possible and consider increased powers for community councils.
* Extend the role of the voluntary sector.
* Expect that a minimum of 25% of new housing developments will be reserved for affordable housing.
Education
* Delivery of a 50% increase in free nursery education for three and four-year-olds, with a nursery teacher for every centre.
* Smaller class sizes, starting with a cut in P1 to P3 class sizes to 18 or less.
* Expanding school-college partnerships for S3 and S4, boosting access to vocational learning.
* Introducing Baccalaureates for science and language.
* Scrap the student graduate endowment and replace the student loans system.
* Additional £10m for "cutting edge research".
Justice
* More police on local streets.
* More information for communities on dangerous paedophiles in their area.
* Tougher controls on the sale of alcohol to those under the legal age to drink.
* Taskforce to tackle organised crime.
* Emphasis on tough community punishments to end short-term prison sentences.