One vote down

I'm just back from babysitting for a friend, a night that involved a lot of football, playing on a child's skateboard, breaking that skateboard, trying to keep the neighbourhood bully out of the back garden and not knowing what to do when a youngster says he was having an asthma attack. It transpired to be a porky to stay up later than usual but the bottom line is, kids are hard work and I wouldn't recommend them to anyone!

But when my friend returned, chat turned to Politics (inevitably). She is educated and pretty switched on with most things but my friend is voting Labour as she believes an SNP win would mean independence. I can tell she is tempted to swing round to another party, probably the SNP but it seems the message isn't getting through that SNP doesn't necessarily mean independence and not only that, but large swathes of her mates think the same way and are voting Labour.

Note that these are people who would have been undecideds this time last week and sad to say but it's in a Labour marginal of Cumbernauld and Kilsyth, so maybe Jamie Hepburn has a little bit more work to do than was originally thought.

Another issue was the Working Families Tax Credit, it is vital to my friend's life at the moment and when she asked what the SNP's stance on this was, I had to admit I didn't know.

So replicate these thoughts across all of Scotland and those undecideds might be landing in the Labour Camps after all!


(Note: I did sell the idea of her student loans being written off and you know what, it might have just done the trick!)