Alex Thomson
How much longer does the English political establishment go on not only not getting it – but demonstrating with toe-curling embarrassment that they simply don’t get it.
Labour have failed to understand the nature of the SNP challenge and are paying the ultimate price.
Alex Thomson
More insults raining down on the SNP tonight with the Labour hopeful in Glasgow South calling the party a “cult”. Curious for any person defending a 10,000+ “safe seat” to say that because it sounds like he feels threatened. He is, of course.
An independent inquiry is to be held into election polls for consistently under-estimating the Conservative lead over Labour.
Unless the polls are criminally inaccurate, a majority government is impossible. So the choice facing people as they put their crosses on the ballot paper is like a proxy vote.
Alex Thomson
Yesterday this correspondent suggested it was time the SNP named and shamed its extremist fringe. They’ve made a belated start to stamp it out – but could they do more?
Alex Thomson
Barnstormer 2 – the sequel. The heroic – at least as far as unionists are concerned – Gordon Brown rides into Glasgow from Fife to sweep all before him in an impassioned plea to sway the electorate.
Alex Thomson
SNP activists claim Scottish Labour was behind a dark propaganda deed to wreck its own rally in Glasgow. Come on guys.
Alex Thomson
Free speech was unquestionably denied in Glasgow today. It was shameful and it was perpetrated by people who say they will vote SNP.
Ed Miliband says he won’t do a deal with the SNP. Does that he won’t be the next Prime Minister? No.
Gary Gibbon
Ed Miliband’s team has always been clear. The SNP, it argues, has nowhere else to go in a hung parliament, when it comes to votes that could bring in or vote out a Labour minority government.
The Sun is backing the SNP in Scotland. Does Britain’s biggest-selling paper still have the power to win elections… if it ever did?
Alex Thomson
With the polls predicting disaster for his party, Scottish Labour party leader “Sunny Jim” Murphy is still smiling in the face of the political weather.
Alex Thomson
In the sparking of plate-welding and the hammering of rust-coloured sheet-steel, the old certainties are going down the slip, while the thought of the SNP coming to power has now become a possibility.
Alex Thomson
This is something close to adoration, and this cannot be faked – as a seasoned correspondent you report what you see, and I have never seen this in a UK election. Never.