A funny old game

It's a funny old game, politics !
Who would have thought that a Scottish Nationalist Party would be a major cause of keeping the SNPs arch rivals in power in Westminster.
The Conservatives don't miss a trick and have been pumping the airwaves with the spectre of the Labour Party needing the SNPs vote to get through some of their bills in Parliament. The idea that a political party, who's raison d'etra is to break away from the very parliament it will have a say in controlling, is an anathema to many.
Removing the nationality issue, the SNP should have a natural affiliation to a proper Labour Party but of course the Labour Party often resembles a watered down version of the Conservative Party.

The SNPs manifesto and the urgings of Nicola Sturgeon resemble something of the Labour Party, pre Blair with proper socialist pretensions and one would have thought that Ed Miliband with his claim to be left of centre would have found some common ground with Sturgeon.

Never mind the rational, always a casualty in the political maelstrom of half truths and down right lies, the spectre of those pesky Sots having a say in in "how we run our old school tie business is not on old boy" ! The fact that for 300 years we have run theirs is of no consequence, the fact that with 45 seats they can not force any bill through that the rest of the House doesn't want is of no interest. All you have to do in this country is shout fire and everyone runs.
Any jingoistic claim is amplified by the bulk of the press who just happen to be owned by exceedingly wealthy people.  Mr and Mrs Pleb swallow what they read and shriek. The very parties that go out to bat for them are the ones they turn on, it's as if Alice was down the rabbit hole and everything is made surreal. It's as if by voting for the exclusive upper class party the working man believes he is joined to the wealthy by symbiosis and becomes one of them !!!
I give up !!!