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England, I love you dearly, but what you did at the general election was the biggest dick move since... is there actually anything to compare it to? Because these people make Thatcher look like some sort of harmless, dotty old aunt.

Um, aren't we already funding our own sick pay through national insurance contributions?

there wasn’t a viable alternative as proven by Scotland that demolished Labour and everyone else
the only alternative was UKIP but the country isn’t ready for that just yet ...

Labour are patently a bunch of tossers, but sooner that than old money types who have no idea how tough the real world can be, and think that everyone else is robbing the country blind when it's really them! And UKIP told Ulster it shouldn't have inquiries into state-sanctioned killings, so they can fcuk right off from my perspective. And that's apart from them having to fire or defend people every other week for racism, fraud, plain old hatred... I'm not having a go at you, they're just definitely not what I consider a viable alternative.

The public wasn't generally offered a viable 'alternative'. In England we got

a) The tory party
b) The labour party, who apparently desperately want to be the tory party
c) UKIP, who mostly actually are tories and official even WERE tories until political opportunism presented itself
d) The greens

That's it. So three variants of the tory party and a party who didn't actually put up enough candidates to get into government even if everyone had voted for them. And the latter two parties got, what? , 8 million votes between them and a seat each out of it. Anyone from the outside looking in would call our election a farce.

Frankly, if the SNP had stood in my constituency, I'd have voted for them. I actually think they should have - imagine of the SNP had actually been the second biggest party in westminster. It would be hilarious.