Has Ed Now Waved Byebye To Any Chance Of Being Pm?

[ToraToraTora]

Having so vociferously ruled out any deal with the SNP , is there any way he can renage on this after the electon? Surely a coalition with the SNP, horrific though it may be, is the only way Ed can get into no 10.

[Cloverjo]

Can David Miliband come back, please?
I like Ed M, but I think he's wrong in saying he won't work with Nicola Sturgeon.
I cringe every time I see him on TV wondering what he's going to trip over next.

[Kromovaracun]

I know it is fashionable - perhaps even easy - to dislike Ed Miliband as a person. But people need to step outside of their personal dislikes and even political disagreements with him to get off the bandwagon and recognise what it is that he has actually done by saying it.

He has openly said that he would rather forgo a chance at governing if the price of it was a deal with the SNP. It is just not possible to go back on a statement like this. If he did, a backbench rebellion would be all but guaranteed and there's an extremely high chance he'd be VONC'd before he'd even started. It is also a loud and clear signal to the Scottish nationalists, and to his own party, that Labour won't work with them.

Can you think of another time in recent memory a politician has made a promise like that?

I'm not Labour fangirl, but Miliband has been more open and, frankly, principled about this than any other party leader. By ruling it out he has sacrificed an awful lot for his party. He has not strengthened his position - in fact there is a very high chance he has all but guaranteed another Tory government - and he has done it on principal.

Whatever I disagree with him on, I admire him for doing it. It took courage. It took a lot more guts than, say, Cameron has shown.

[steg]

Nicola ruled out going into coalition with anybody, no SNP cabinet members, absolute no deals with the torys ,all long before any other party even mentiond the doing or not doing a deal with the SNP .
It really doesn't sound like some one that's trying to gain power at all cost or trying to pull strings.
It's the media that's pulling the strings, some are so blinded by it

[whiskeryron]

Shall we just wait until after the election & see what happens, I love surprises

[Kromovaracun]

"Nicola ruled out going into coalition with anybody, no SNP cabinet members, absolute no deals with the torys ,all long before any other party even mentiond the doing or not doing a deal with the SNP . "

Well, except for that time about two or three weeks ago when she explicitly asked Ed Miliband to cooperate with her party in the commons. I guess if you ignore that completely, yeah, you're right.

[steg]

Yes she always said that she was willing to do a vote for vote with a labour gov(that's the cooperation that she was on about), but did not want to go into coalition with them