The SNP
are trying to gloss over the fact that it was them who put Margaret Thatcher
into 10 Downing Street and they are trying to pretend that they are not trying
to deliver another conservative victory.
A common
lie told about the previous referendum was "After the 1979 referendum,
Scotland suffered 18 years of Tory rule we didn't vote for …"
The truth
is the Scots weren't "given" Tory rule by anyone other than the SNP
and if they suffered 18 years of Tory rule, it was because the SNP DID vote
with the Tories and actually brought on their long years in power.
Nicola
surgeon and the SNP choose to forget and hope that no one will recall, is that
it was the 11-strong SNP group in the Commons in 1979 that first tabled the no
confidence motion in
Jim Callaghan's Labour government which led to its defeat in that memorable debate three weeks after the devolution referendum.
Jim Callaghan's Labour government which led to its defeat in that memorable debate three weeks after the devolution referendum.
Margaret
Thatcher couldn't be sure of beating Callaghan until she saw that the Nats were
on her side and once they had shown their hand, she then tabled her own no
confidence motion, which, as leader of the main opposition party, took
precedence over that of the SNP. She won by only one vote, with all the Nat MPs
voting with her – "turkeys voting for an early Christmas", said
not-so Sunny Jim.
SNP maintain
the biggest fiction of all – that they had nothing to do with the rise and rise
of Margaret Thatcher and puts an end to lie of the SNP being anywhere near the
left.
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