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Scottish Nationalists, Labour Party Coalition Deal May Boost Nationalism

© Flickr / Alex HamiltonRobin Tilbrook said that Scottish Nationalist Party plans to reach coalition deal with Labour may give English nationalism "a huge boost".
Robin Tilbrook said that Scottish Nationalist Party plans to reach coalition deal with Labour may give English nationalism a huge boost. - Sputnik International
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Robin Tilbrook said that Scottish Nationalist Party plans to reach coalition deal with Labour may give English nationalism "a huge boost".

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EDINBURGH, December 30 (Sputnik), Mark Hirst — Plans by the Scottish National Party (SNP) to reach a coalition deal with Labour in the event of a hung parliament following the 2015 UK General Election will give a "huge boost" to English nationalists, Robin Tilbrook, the chairman of the English Democrats, has told Sputnik.

"The plans of the Scottish National Party to hold the British Labour Party to ransom after the General Election will help our campaign and give English Nationalism a huge boost," Tilbrook, whose right wing political party seeks independence from Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, said Monday.

His comments came as the SNP published a survey by the polling firm Panelbase that showed support for the SNP holding the balance of power with a Labour minority Government standing at 35 per cent.

"The SNP holding the balance of power alongside a minority Labour government is far and away the most popular General Election outcome in Scotland," SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon said in a statement.

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But Tilbrook told Sputnik there was a growing level of resentment in England that Scotland was getting "special treatment" and described as a "bribe" the promise, made by anti-independence political leaders before September's referendum on cessation, of more powers for the Scottish Parliament if voters opted to remain within the UK.

"We are not anti-Scottish as such but are concerned that England and the English are being unfairly discriminated against by the British political establishment in their rush to bribe Scottish voters to support the Union," Tilbrook said. "There is definitely a growing sense in England that Scotland is too demanding and of too little value to the English to demand the special treatment they are being given," Tilbrook added.

Tilbrook added that "We think England would be better off without the Union."

The SNP declined to respond to Tilbrook's claims.

In September's independence referendum 55 percent of voters in Scotland chose to remain part of the UK.

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