Salmond and Sturgeon Want the English Fish for More Fat Subsidies

Leanne1812

CLAPTON wrote: »

what are the SNP policies for Scotland?

Why don't you just go to their website and have a look?

snp.org

You're welcome :-)

Shakethedisease

And at the very least they seem to be 'for' something, even if you don't agree with it. Which is in huge contrast to the 'Anti-SNP-but-patriotic' Labour party up here. Which have nothing more positive to say than 'vote for us to keep someone else out '. Yawn.

CLAPTON

Leanne1812 wrote: »

Why don't you just go to their website and have a look?

snp.org

You're welcome :-)

I was asking Skake what, in her opinion, were that policies that were attractive to Scottish voters.

Leanne1812

Shakethedisease wrote: »

And at the very least they seem to be 'for' something, even if you don't agree with it. Which is in huge contrast to the 'Anti-SNP-but-patriotic' Labour party up here. Which have nothing more positive to say than 'vote for us to keep someone else out '. Yawn.

I've noticed Jim & Kezia spout about this word for word. They've come up with a sentence and think it's genius. At least they admit now that it appears Labour may be doomed in Scotland. Who'd have thought this could happen just a few short months ago?

At least the tories know and accept they are unpopular in Scotland but the scots have stood behind Labour for decades. No more it seems.

They could have still supported a No vote but on their own platform. Then they wouldn't be facing this crisis I believe.

Leanne1812

CLAPTON wrote: »

I was asking Skake what, in her opinion, were that policies that were attractive to Scottish voters.

Their message for the GE is vote Snp for a stronger voice for Scotland. It appears to be working.


I can only speak for myself, the anti austerity policy works for me. Pay off the deficit at a slower rate and get investing and creating meaningful jobs. Less of the zero hour contracts please. Surely it makes sense that more disposable income helps our economy grow? That starts with jobs. I know you may fire back that more people are employed but I'd ask what type of employment? It's making the stats for unemployment look good but are they so low paid/ minimum hours they are being topped up by the government anyway?


A snippet from John Swinney.

You may not agree with all or any of it but ithese policies on the whole appear to be going down well here.


Despite the economic challenges, we have been working to create jobs and protect family budgets. Over these four years:

We have frozen council tax for the past 5 years, saving the average family more than £300.

We’ve slashed or abolished business rates for around 80,000 small shops and local employers, protecting jobs in tough times and matched the English business rates poundage, giving Scottish business a £200 million competitive advantage.

The approval we’ve given for a desperately needed new Forth Road Bridge will ease congestion, cut journey times, boost business and create 3,000 new jobs. We’ve also funded improvements to major roads across the country including the M8, the M80, M74 and the A9.

We’ve found an extra £2.3 billion for jobs and public services by cutting back on waste and bureaucracy in Government, breaking the target of 1.5% efficiency savings.

We’ve helped tourism and the local economy in the Western Isles through a pilot scheme to reduce ferry fares and provided valuable funding to secure the Dundee V&A, the new Bannockburn visitor centre, and the creation of the Robert Burns Birthplace Museum in Ayrshire.

We’ve ensured that four out of five contracts for work in the public sector go to small businesses and our Scottish Investment Fund helps some of the best grassroots business projects get up and running.

And, we’ve started 24,000 affordable houses since coming into office in 2007 – that’s an average of 117 new houses every week - creating jobs in the construction sector.

elantan

It certainly does seem to be working and more people are becoming SNP voters and supporters every day

I spose its one of those things many people that are not here will not understand, and some that are here are so blinded by their hatred of the SNP they are not interested in understanding.

We will see what happens May 7th I spose

CLAPTON

Leanne1812 wrote: »

Their message for the GE is vote Snp for a stronger voice for Scotland. It appears to be working.


I can only speak for myself, the anti austerity policy works for me. Pay off the deficit at a slower rate and get investing and creating meaningful jobs. Less of the zero hour contracts please. Surely it makes sense that more disposable income helps our economy grow? That starts with jobs. I know you may fire back that more people are employed but I'd ask what type of employment? It's making the stats for unemployment look good but are they so low paid/ minimum hours they are being topped up by the government anyway?


A snippet from John Swinney.

You may not agree with all or any of it but ithese policies on the whole appear to be going down well here.


Despite the economic challenges, we have been working to create jobs and protect family budgets. Over these four years:

We have frozen council tax for the past 5 years, saving the average family more than £300.

We’ve slashed or abolished business rates for around 80,000 small shops and local employers, protecting jobs in tough times and matched the English business rates poundage, giving Scottish business a £200 million competitive advantage.

The approval we’ve given for a desperately needed new Forth Road Bridge will ease congestion, cut journey times, boost business and create 3,000 new jobs. We’ve also funded improvements to major roads across the country including the M8, the M80, M74 and the A9.

We’ve found an extra £2.3 billion for jobs and public services by cutting back on waste and bureaucracy in Government, breaking the target of 1.5% efficiency savings.

We’ve helped tourism and the local economy in the Western Isles through a pilot scheme to reduce ferry fares and provided valuable funding to secure the Dundee V&A, the new Bannockburn visitor centre, and the creation of the Robert Burns Birthplace Museum in Ayrshire.

We’ve ensured that four out of five contracts for work in the public sector go to small businesses and our Scottish Investment Fund helps some of the best grassroots business projects get up and running.

And, we’ve started 24,000 affordable houses since coming into office in 2007 – that’s an average of 117 new houses every week - creating jobs in the construction sector.

thank for your time and effort

seems like the right sort of stuff

Shakethedisease

Kevin McKenna in blistering and very blunt form.. explains the current state of play nicely.

( Labour ) It saw more than 30% of supporters vote Yes in the referendum and now it faces being left with fewer than a handful of seats in its heartlands. Yet, in the face of this, its only response was: “Vote SNP, get Tories.” It was pathetic and displayed a fundamental ignorance of what has been happening in its backyards. That old ship sailed a long, long time ago. The multitudes of former Labour supporters who have migrated to the SNP now believe that Labour and the Tories are indivisible...

...Scots under the age of 30 voted overwhelmingly in favour of independence and they have access to more streams of information and are consuming their politics from more vivid, rock’n’roll providers. They have ceased to trust what they were being fed by traditional media and have turned to websites such as Wings Over Scotland, Bella Caledonia and Newsnet Scotland.

The numbers following these websites are approaching six figures and their crowd-funding enterprises have allowed them budgets to rival those of many newspaper commissioning editors. They can no longer be regarded as peripheral players on Scotland’s media terrain and their forensic scrutiny of the claims of politicians and newspapers is driving tens of thousands of voters away from Labour.

...Labour has been judged by the new nationalists not to have opposed this system sufficiently well at Westminster and that perceived failure is reaping a bitter harvest for it in Scotland. No amount of policy initiatives by Ed Miliband can dislodge this thought from the minds of Labour’s lost Scottish generation...

...If UK Labour can’t or won’t carry out this task then the Scottish party must uncouple from Westminster, take up the standard and dare to be radical once more in restoring balance within our uneven society. I fear that it may be too late, though.

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/mar/07/scottish-labour-party-need-to-get-act-together-union-general-election

Leanne1812

elantan wrote: »

It certainly does seem to be working and more people are becoming SNP voters and supporters every day

I spose its one of those things many people that are not here will not understand, and some that are here are so blinded by their hatred of the SNP they are not interested in understanding.

We will see what happens May 7th I spose

I think people don't like the fact that labour seem to side with the conservatives so much. Voting for more austerity & renewal of trident are just two issues that a lot of scots don't agree with.

The SNP appear to be the party worth supporting with an alternative view.

I'm not a blind supporter and do not agree with everything but they have my vote this time.

skintmacflint

Shakethedisease wrote: »

Politics is ever changing. However, 9 weeks before a General Election is pushing things a bit far in terms of a complete turnaround in probable voter behaviour for this one. 1 or even 5 years out, who knows.

Maybe I wasn't clear enough in what I meant. As it was the 1 to 5 years I meant , when wondering if there was enough time to do this, not the coming election .

Or more precisely before SNP have time to engineer another referndum.

But don't tell me their huge new support has come from anything other than stirring up division ,ill feeling, and a load of good sounding physcological sound bites, because it's untrue. I considered SNP and Independence as an option until I went to a couple of their sessions. And that was the end for me. People down South don't know the half of what was being said up here, in town halls and meetings.