12 Things David Cameron Wants You To Forget

12. Despite All The Rhetoric Claiming Labour Will Co-Operate With The SNP... Cameron Himself Did So By Offering The Scottish Independence Referendum

Just like any election campaign, there will be plenty of mud-slinging - particularly between the Conservatives and Labour - and one area in which Cameron will aim to woo voters is by trying to convince them that if they plug for Ed Miliband they'll get a puppet Prime Minister held at gunpoint by Alex Salmond and the Scottish National Party. Labour's vote share north of the border is likely to be decimated in this election, meaning Miliband would almost certainly need Salmond and the SNP to help prop up any Labour minority, yet Cameron has done deals with the Scottish Nationalists in the past himself. After the SNP won a majority in the Scottish Parliament for the first time in 2011, they demanded a referendum on Scottish independence - claiming they had a clear mandate for one. Although Cameron was reluctant, he agreed to do so and signed across to the Scottish government the powers to call the referendum for September 18, 2014. The eventual outcome was a "No" vote, with 44.7% voting in favour and 55.3% against. But what is important here is that Salmond could only call such a referendum because Cameron, as PM of Britain, was able to hand over the powers - otherwise legally the Scottish Parliament could not legislate on an issue concerning the constitution of the United Kingdom. Cameron did a deal with the SNP and succumbed to their pressure - something he believes Miliband will also do.