How will the economy be affected by SNP MPs; will it be for richer or for poorer and

CLAPTON

Memory_Girl wrote: »

LOL ... today apart from being in the Chamber taking an active part in the debate ..... strategy meetings on EU Referendum ....three media commitments ... two evening APPG meetings and showing a lovely old lady from our constituency around Westminster, our MP has generated 72 response letters, made 17 appointments for meetings, scheduled 22 surgeries in his constituency, organised a gift to a young lass hurt in an accident last week, Skyped with a lad with cancer .. got HMRC to stump up over £7K in overdue Tax Credits for five families, stopped one from being unfairly evicted, written letters in defence of an immigration case ...... and has just made it home to his one year old baby to do bathtime.

................. tomorrow - more of the same I should think!

But don't worry about #Team56 at Westminster ... we won't be there long

MG


PS (waves at elantan) - howzit gaun therr china??

gosh : does that not happen with MSP ?

Memory_Girl

CLAPTON wrote: »

gosh : does that not happen with MSP ?

That's it? That's your comeback .... I expected better frankly.

Yes elantan hon - love for you to pay a visit .. of course I am kind of busy at the moment till we get more staff on board ... and an EU Referendum and Scottish Elections to prep for ..... not to mention all the planning for #indy2..... its coming you know:D

Oh! and new offices to move into ..... after I left the campaign hub with a poster on it saying "we are going to need substantially bigger offices" LOL

Still - its the best job on the planet ... building a country fit for our kids!

See you soon hon X

CLAPTON

Memory_Girl wrote: »

That's it? That's your comeback .... I expected better frankly.

Yes elantan hon - love for you to pay a visit .. of course I am kind of busy at the moment till we get more staff on board ... and an EU Referendum and Scottish Elections to prep for ..... not to mention all the planning for #indy2..... its coming you know:D

Oh! and new offices to move into ..... after I left the campaign hub with a poster on it saying "we are going to need substantially bigger offices" LOL

Still - its the best job on the planet ... building a country fit for our kids!

See you soon hon X

better thanwhat?

It's quite normal that MPs / local councillors etc help their constituents : I rather assumed it was normal in Scotland as well.

elantan

Will text ya with dates etc closer to the time you can maybe show me yer new wee hub ours is buzzing with so many groups now its getting hard to book time to use it for the CW

HAMISH_MCTAVISH

Memory_Girl wrote: »

its the best job on the planet ... building a country fit for our kids!

The Conservative Government is doing that very well thanks...

You can probably help by staying out of the way.

elantan

I dont know how to take that I'm a central belt sassanach

Generali

HAMISH_MCTAVISH wrote: »

The Conservative Government is doing that very well thanks...

You can probably help by staying out of the way.

To be fair, the SNP should be doing what minority parties do well: sit on select committees to hold the Government to account and look after the interests of their constituents.

They shouldn't think that winning a majority of a small part of the UK gives them any special powers or rights.

kabayiri

Memory_Girl wrote: »

LOL ... today apart from being in the Chamber taking an active part in the debate ..... strategy meetings on EU Referendum ....three media commitments ... two evening APPG meetings and showing a lovely old lady from our constituency around Westminster, our MP has generated 72 response letters, made 17 appointments for meetings, scheduled 22 surgeries in his constituency, organised a gift to a young lass hurt in an accident last week, Skyped with a lad with cancer .. got HMRC to stump up over £7K in overdue Tax Credits for five families, stopped one from being unfairly evicted, written letters in defence of an immigration case ...... and has just made it home to his one year old baby to do bathtime.

................. tomorrow - more of the same I should think!

But don't worry about #Team56 at Westminster ... we won't be there long

MG


PS (waves at elantan) - howzit gaun therr china??

Fascinating.

Back in 2010, in the first few days of his term, my MP brokered the historic deal between the LibDems and the Tories, leading to 5 years of stable coallition government in difficult times.

I'm sure the small stuff needs looking after too though eh?

HAMISH_MCTAVISH

Generali wrote: »

To be fair, the SNP should be doing what minority parties do well: sit on select committees to hold the Government to account and look after the interests of their constituents..

Yes, they should be, but they won't.

The SNP are to Westminster as UKIP are to the European Parliament.

In terms of both efficacy and gravitas, we could have just about elected the monster raving loony party to 56 seats and had the same amount of childish behaviour, grandstanding and embarrassment.

Shakethedisease

HAMISH_MCTAVISH wrote: »

Yes, they should be, but they won't.

The SNP are to Westminster as UKIP are to the European Parliament.

In terms of both efficacy and gravitas, we could have just about elected the monster raving loony party to 56 seats and had the same amount of childish behaviour, grandstanding and embarrassment.

You're havering Hamish. And they weren't elected to go to Westminster and 'sit on select committees' meekly. Dear oh dear lol.

Last night the Tories broke the Vow/Smith Commission. The very first line of the Vow in fact.. stating that Holyrood would be made permanent. Then FFA was voted down twice, as well as the Scottish Govt having a say in the scrapping of the Human Rights Act.

They'll rush through EVEL without a blush though. And while FFA was never going to be offered, and the Human Rights Act and whether it is fully reserved or not is complicated legally... That the very first statement re Holyrood being made permanent was broken, for seemingly no real reason, means the Vow and Smith are no more as promised.

All going rather well really depending how you look at it. Not in Westminster of course, but this is exactly what was predicted would happen. The Vow and Smith a sham from start to finish. People just needed to see that for themselves.

Not you or I though. Because you're in that solid third of the Scottish voters who are solidly unionist. And I am in the opposite third. However, 50% of the scottish electorate DID vote for further powers in the General election a few weeks ago. For a party that stood explicitly on a platform saying Smith wasn't enough. You're in danger of overlooking who those 56 represent.

Last week's Herald/TNS poll on Holyrood voting intentions was devastating. It suggested that 60% of Scots now intend to vote SNP in the Scottish Parliamentary elections next year, leaving Labour with precisely zero constituency seats in Holyrood.

Worse, it indicated that 80% of voters under 35 are now supporters of the SNP against only 6% for Labour.

There is definitely another head of steam building. I just hope they a while longer until the damage done to Smith etc becomes insurmountable and Scotland finally realises that all that happens when they send ANY political party down there to represent them... is that they're expected to sit on select committees, behave and become mere lobby fodder. God forbid they actually go there to do what they said they would and what they were voted in to achieve.