You're BACKWARDS! Corbyn slaps down Sturgeon's plot to form Left-wing pact to stop May
JEREMY CORBYN has slapped down Nicola Sturgeon’s plans for a post-election coalition with the Scottish National Party slamming it as a backwards party.
Corbyn: We’re more determined than we’ve ever been
The embattled Labour leader hit back at the scheming First Minister’s plans to form a Left-wing pact to stop Theresa May from returning to Number 10.
In an apparent dig at Ms Sturgeon’s plot to form a “progressive alliance”, Jeremy Corbyn said the SNP was not progressive.
Sticking the boot in, he said Nicola Sturgeon could “not be more wrong”, adding her only desire was to “break up the UK”.
Jeremy Corbyn slapped down Nicola Sturgeon
The prime minister wants to hold a snap general election on June 8
Nicola Sturgeon is trying to convince people in Scotland that you can get rid of the Tories by voting SNP. She couldn’t be more wrong
In a statement released by the Labour Party, he said: “There will be no coalition deal with the SNP and a Labour government.
“The SNP may talk left at Westminster, but in government in Scotland it acts right. A genuinely progressive party would not refuse to introduce a 50p top rate of income tax on the richest.
“The SNP wants to break up the UK; it has no interest in making it work better. Independence would lead to turbo-charged austerity in Scotland – not progressive politics.
“Nicola Sturgeon is trying to convince people in Scotland that you can get rid of the Tories by voting SNP. She couldn’t be more wrong.
“Only Labour or the Tories can win this election and voting Labour is the only way to remove Theresa May from office.”
Jeremy Corbyn said the SNP were backwards
His comments will shatter Ms Sturgeon’s plans to keep the Prime Minister out of Downing Street as she looks to plough ahead with plans to drag Scotland out of the UK with a second independence referendum.
The SNP leader earlier said: “If the Parliamentary arithmetic lends itself to the SNP being part of a progressive alliance to keep the Tories out of Government then the SNP will seek to be part of that as we said in 2015.
Sturgeon wanted to form a left-wing pact to oust Theresa May
"Now we are not sure that there are many people who think Labour will be in a position on their own or with anyone else to form a Government.
"There will be many people across England who will see that as a matter for regret."