Labour hasn't quite finished shooting itself in the foot

[danohu]

BBC:

The Scottish National Party has called on the Liberal Democrats to join a "progressive alliance" involving Labour, the SNP and Plaid Cymru.
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Labour dismissed the SNP's progressive alliance suggestion as a desperate attempt by Mr Salmond to make himself look relevant.

WTF Labour?! That's 6 votes we desperately need to keep the Tories out. What are you doing not just turning them down, but dissing the SNP while you're at it? Seriously, can anybody explain this? It seems an utterly bizarre reaction in the circumstances.

Good work to all those at the electoral reform demo, btw. Sorry not to be there; have too many long-overdue things to get done.

Comments

[palmer1984.livejournal.com]

WTF LABOUR. SERIOUSLY.

[tanngrisnir.livejournal.com]

If it was a Scottish Labour guy who dismissed it, the answer is easy. Scottish Labour LOATHE the SNP. Them being so blinded by that they could do something stupid like this is not surprising.

[pete stevens (from livejournal.com)]

Scotland declaring independence would give the Tories a majority, kick Gordon Brown out of office, solve the West Lothian question and make it much easier for the Tories to remain in power from now on. If he palmed off the debts of RBS and HBOS onto the new Scottish government it'd solve a good fraction of the national debt too.

Fortunately SNP + Tories + PC don't have enough seats to pull it off so hopefully this option stays in hilarious alternative reality land.

[friend-of-tofu.livejournal.com]

That was a seriously stupid foot-in-mouth comment, yes.

[gerald_duck]

You'd prefer Labour to the Conservatives? But I thought you were left-wing. :-p