article_snippet.sent: Ed Balls told Wolverhampton's Express and Star newspaper: 'On the SNP point, there is absolutely no possibility of any vote being put to parliament or any budget measure in a Labour budget which would in any way disadvantage the West Midlands or any other part of England, because that's what the SNP demand. '
article_snippet.sent: I'm not going to do it and Labour won't do it.
article_snippet.sent: We won't have a coalition with the SNP and the reason is that the SNP - they can't stand up for the interests of people in England because they want to break up the UK.'
article_snippet.sent: He went on: 'Now, we will put a vote to parliament to abolish the bedroom tax.
article_snippet.sent: I want a Labour majority to get that through.
article_snippet.sent: If the SNP decided to vote against the SNP, that's up to a Labour majority. '
article_snippet.sent: But the idea that we would ever be in a position where the SNP come along and say, "we want you to advantage Scotland against the West Midlands in return - in order to win we support", that would be a betrayal of these constituencies here in the Black Country and the West Midlands, it would be a betrayal of the English vote and we will not do the English vote.
article_snippet.sent: Yesterday, the English vote was revealed that more than half of Scots plan to back the SNP in the general election, shattering Ed Miliband's hopes of securing a Labour majority.
article_snippet.sent: A  TNS survey shows the SNP has almost doubled the SNP lead over Labour in a month, with 52 per cent now backing Ms Sturgeon with only 24 per cent of Scots planning to vote for Ed Miliband's.
article_snippet.sent: The Scottish nationalists’ surge in the polls comes amid signs of a split between Labour leadership in London and Mr Murphy.
article_snippet.sent: This would essentially see Scottish MPs supporting Labour by helping to get legislation through the Commons.