Sturgeon has publicly ruled out any support for David Cameron and the Conservatives but off ered to work with Labour on a vote by vote basis, but at a price.


The next intake of MPs to Westminster will decide on whether to replace Britain’s nuclear deterrent which is currently based in Scotland on the River Clyde near Glasgow. The SNP is fi ercely opposed to weapons of mass destruction and could make their support for a Labour-led Westminster Government conditional on the scrapping of Trident. “For the fi rst time in a generation, with the surge of political engagement in Scotland, it seems possible that the replacement will not go ahead,” said Brian Larkin, coordinator of the Scrap Trident campaign.


“A raſt of anti-Trident Scot ish MPs could hold the balance of power and the key to a nuclear free UK and even a nuclear free world.”


A lot of Labour’s remaining support comes from pensioners who remember the party of old. The one that appealed to workers in the shipyards, manufacturing plants and coal mines – all of which have largely disappeared. Today’s younger Scots are far


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more likely to support the SNP or Green party.


A estimated 63 percent of 18 to 24 year-olds in England say they are planning to vote in the general election compared to 76 percent in Scotland, of which 28 percent plan to back the SNP and 14 percent the Greens.


“Jim Murphy has not had any eff ect so far in helping to turn around Labour’s fortunes. He has not yet endeared himself to the electorate and he has a fundamental problem with Ed Miliband who is not very popular


in Scotland.” :John Curtis


“I’m voting SNP because they will stand up for Scotland and put pressure on the UK government to get rid of nuclear weapons,” said Kirsty Taylor, 19, a student from Clydebank who proudly wears her heart on her sleeve in the shape of a “bairns not bombs” but on badge on her jacket.


“My mum and dad used to vote Labour but there’s not much diff erence between them and the Tories now. If Labour have to rely on SNP support to form a government they will have to think about scrapping Trident. It’s obscene that so many people in Britain are struggling but we can spend £100 billion on nuclear weapons that will never be used.”


Labour has publicly refused to consider any possibility of being in a situation where they may have to rely on SNP support to form a government. However, it is only aſt er all the votes have been cast and counted that the real negotiations can take place and the revolution begin.


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