Nationalists Predict End Of Labours 50year Stranglehold (from The Herald Election Site)

Labour's 50-year stranglehold on Scotland will end today when the voters go to the polls, SNP leader Alex Salmond claimed during a final day of campaigning yesterday.

Touring key seats up and down the east coast, he said Labour did not have a divine right to rule Scotland and this would be demonstrated today.

He said: "This is the first time in Scottish electoral history that the SNP have held the initiative over Labour on the eve of an election.

"This is also the first time in 50 years Labour's hegemony has been seriously challenged in Scotland. Labour do not have a divine right to rule, it is the voters themselves who will decide the future path for Scotland."

The SNP leader added: "What we have seen over the past few weeks and months is that the SNP's overwhelmingly positive campaign is succeeding over Labour's unremittingly negative campaign. That's why we are maintaining our lead in this final and crucial stage of the election.

"Voters can support the SNP tomorrow with the knowledge that we are committed to building success for Scotland, and that we will work hard in government to earn their trust before putting the issue of Scotland's constitutional future to the people in 2010."

Party strategists do not deny that Labour's scare tactics coupled with their appeal for their core voters to "come home" may have had some effect in narrowing the polls in the final week, but they believe that the SNP now have a better organised and more enthusiastic activist base which is better placed to get the voters out today. They claim there are some indications in the early postal vote returns, an area in which the SNP has traditionally fared poorly, to give them encouragement this time round.

Mr Salmond said: "It's time for fresh thinking and a new approach to build a more successful Scotland. It's time for a nation that is healthier, with vital health services kept local, communities that are safer with a more visible police presence on our streets and families that are wealthier, with lower and fairer local tax leaving more money in people's pockets at the end of every month."

What better reason to vote SNP than the fact that the Daily Retard and the Sun don't wish us to?

I'd urge all Scots residents to view this poster before going into the ballot box today! Print version poster: http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/endlabourlies/ http://www.dont-vote-labour.co.uk/votesnp.jpg For emailing: http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/endlabourlies/small-poster/ Print the high-res version of the poster. View it. Pass it on. Print it. Hang it on windows and walls, especially near key seats! Email the lower-res poster to all and sundry! Family, friends, pets, strangers - go for it. You'll be helping Scotland address political dependency, poverty and warmongering. See through the labour lies and spin Scotland! SNP for a return to democracy...1, 2 and 3. Peace, sense and worth Scotland. x

I'd urge all Scots residents to view this poster before going into the ballot box today!

Print version poster:
http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/endlabourlies/
http://www.dont-vote-labour.co.uk/votesnp.jpg

For emailing:
http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/endlabourlies/small-poster/

Print the high-res version of the poster.

View it. Pass it on. Print it. Hang it on windows and walls, especially near key seats!

Email the lower-res poster to all and sundry! Family, friends, pets, strangers - go for it. You'll be helping Scotland address political dependency, poverty and warmongering.

See through the labour lies and spin Scotland! SNP for a return to democracy...1, 2 and 3.

Peace, sense and worth Scotland.

x

"Come back to Labour"?
How is that possoble when Tony changed the locks on his triumphalist move to the New Tory Party

I believe devolution within the UK is in Scotland�s best economic interests. Devolution is working, perhaps not quite as we would like it yet, but it has resulted in solid economic progress... � Economic growth has been outstripping its long-term trend since 2003 � Scotland now has a higher employment rate than the UK average � Job earnings are rising faster than elsewhere in Britain � Disposable incomes are rising faster than any other part of the UK � Our standard of living (GVA per head) is now above the UK average � Population decline in Scotland has finally been reversed � Scottish per capita GDP has overtaken Germany, France, Italy and Japan � Child poverty is down an unprecedented 25% since 1999. The next steps on the economy and on education, health and crime are of course laid out in the manifestos. Any combination of Labour, Conservative or LibDem would in different ways be able to take those issues forward. But I firmly believe that voting for the SNP carries massive risk. Alex Salmond said on last night�s STV leaders debate that he has �plans A through Z�. I'm no fan of Salmond, but he�s nobody�s mug and you can bet that he has the path to independence clearly mapped out. One major stepping stone on that path is the set of crazy demands that the SNP said in its "First 100 Days" document that it will make of London. Losing a battle will be blamed on London and the inevitable resentment used to build the independence agenda. We�ve seen in this campaign how forthright the SNP�s PR machine has become. Salmond's spokesman has even said that resultant tensions would help fuel the clamour for independence. But the situation would also damage business confidence, put investment prospects at risk and endanger hard-won jobs. On independence itself, opinions obviously differ, but the vast majority of economists say that Scotland � like Wales, N.Ireland and most English regions � receives a net fiscal transfer from the Treasury, meaning that a newly independent country would have to raise taxes substantially and also cut public services to the bone. Who would want that? Certainly not me! I want a stable business environment, lower personal taxation and long term growth. Anyway, aside from sentimental considerations, there�s no potential benefit of independence that couldn�t be ours within Britain. If you agree and want to safeguard Scotland�s constitutional place within Britain, please consider giving your constituency vote to the strongest unionist candidate (Labour, LibDem or Tory) even if that�s not your party of choice, to see off the SNP challenge. Then you can give your regional vote to your preferred party to contribute to their overall share of MSPs. More info: http://scotlandonsunday.scotsman.com/opinion.cfm?id=660132007

I believe devolution within the UK is in Scotland�s best economic interests. Devolution is working, perhaps not quite as we would like it yet, but it has resulted in solid economic progress...

� Economic growth has been outstripping its long-term trend since 2003
� Scotland now has a higher employment rate than the UK average
� Job earnings are rising faster than elsewhere in Britain
� Disposable incomes are rising faster than any other part of the UK
� Our standard of living (GVA per head) is now above the UK average
� Population decline in Scotland has finally been reversed
� Scottish per capita GDP has overtaken Germany, France, Italy and Japan
� Child poverty is down an unprecedented 25% since 1999.

The next steps on the economy and on education, health and crime are of course laid out in the manifestos. Any combination of Labour, Conservative or LibDem would in different ways be able to take those issues forward.

But I firmly believe that voting for the SNP carries massive risk. Alex Salmond said on last night�s STV leaders debate that he has �plans A through Z�. I'm no fan of Salmond, but he�s nobody�s mug and you can bet that he has the path to independence clearly mapped out.

One major stepping stone on that path is the set of crazy demands that the SNP said in its "First 100 Days" document that it will make of London. Losing a battle will be blamed on London and the inevitable resentment used to build the independence agenda. We�ve seen in this campaign how forthright the SNP�s PR machine has become. Salmond's spokesman has even said that resultant tensions would help fuel the clamour for independence. But the situation would also damage business confidence, put investment prospects at risk and endanger hard-won jobs.

On independence itself, opinions obviously differ, but the vast majority of economists say that Scotland � like Wales, N.Ireland and most English regions � receives a net fiscal transfer from the Treasury, meaning that a newly independent country would have to raise taxes substantially and also cut public services to the bone.

Who would want that? Certainly not me! I want a stable business environment, lower personal taxation and long term growth. Anyway, aside from sentimental considerations, there�s no potential benefit of independence that couldn�t be ours within Britain.

If you agree and want to safeguard Scotland�s constitutional place within Britain, please consider giving your constituency vote to the strongest unionist candidate (Labour, LibDem or Tory) even if that�s not your party of choice, to see off the SNP challenge. Then you can give your regional vote to your preferred party to contribute to their overall share of MSPs.

More info: http://scotlandonsunday.scotsman.com/opinion.cfm?id=660132007

If the SNP are elected God's wrath will wreak revenge on the impudent Scots involved. Burning brimstone will rain down as punishment and SNP voters will be burned alive (God's shield will only protect Labour voters).

I'd urge all Scots residents to view this poster before going into the ballot box today! Print version poster: http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/endlabourlies/ http://www.dont-vote-labour.co.uk/votesnp.jpg For emailing: http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/endlabourlies/small-poster/ Print the high-res version of the poster. View it. Pass it on. Print it. Hang it on windows and walls, especially near key seats! Email the lower-res poster to all and sundry! Family, friends, pets, strangers - go for it. See through the labour lies and spin Scotland! SNP for a return to democracy...1, 2 and 3.

I'd urge all Scots residents to view this poster before going into the ballot box today!

Print version poster:
http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/endlabourlies/
http://www.dont-vote-labour.co.uk/votesnp.jpg

For emailing:
http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/endlabourlies/small-poster/

Print the high-res version of the poster.

View it. Pass it on. Print it. Hang it on windows and walls, especially near key seats!

Email the lower-res poster to all and sundry! Family, friends, pets, strangers - go for it.

See through the labour lies and spin Scotland! SNP for a return to democracy...1, 2 and 3.

Now is the day and now is the hour..
Sing like you are in the first days of a better nation..
End 50 years of Labours stranglehold
End 300 years of union
Scotland has been in bed with an elephant for too long.. Move out Jack the Lad McConn-ill..
P***-off New Labour.. Blusterin' Bletherin' Blellums..

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