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Originally Posted by Chris
Comments like that are hardly going to be made during a minuted meeting.
This was an off-the-cuff comment by Wee Nippy, either on the way on or the way out of the meeting room. The Scottish "government" has denied this in carefully worded terms. The French ambassador has no obligations to the British public or our political conventions so is free to deny at will anyway.
You can be absolutely confident that this actually happened, not least because a weak Tory government opposed by a strong SNP contingent is exactly what everyone knows is the best scenario for the Nats and their only real reason for existence, namely to break Scotland away from the UK. Playing nicely with a Labour government doesn't serve that purpose. Heroically fighting Scotland's corner against the evil (English) Tories does.
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I agree she thinks it and I think she probably said it. As I have mentioned previous it is
painfully obvious this is their plan. It was clear from the moment they made trident a 'red line' in any future coalition plans, an impossible request, that they want to remain outside the 'establishment' lobbing rocks than risk being seen as part of it.
The problem is that anyone minded to give the SNP the benefit of the doubt have been giving more than enough reason to be so. This is weak evidence. So this doesn't help the unionist cause at all. Last night I was pretty hopeful that this would put a dent in the SNP surge but now there is little to go on and if anything it will only increase the fundamentalist zeal of their supporters.