article_snippet: Ed Miliband today launched another desperate bid to counter the rise of the SNP .
article_snippet: Ed Miliband left the door open to a post-election deal with the SNP yesterday as a new poll suggested Labour could be reduced to just two MPs in Scotland.
article_snippet: Ed Miliband insisted Ed Miliband party could still win outright, pleading with people not to 'blow the whistle on the match before the game is over'.
article_snippet: However Ed Miliband has not ruled out a vote-by-vote arrangement with the Nationalists.
article_snippet: On a visit to Scotland Ed Miliband claimed there was an 'unholy alliance' between the Conservatives and the SNP to keep David Cameron in Number Ten.
article_snippet: If so, the party would be certain of holding the balance of power at Westminster. '
article_snippet: Mr Miliband appeared angered by Alex Salmond positioning Alex Salmond as kingmaker in Westminster. '
article_snippet: It's a combination of bluster and bluff,' Alex Salmond said. '
article_snippet: I'll tell you who's going to be writing a Labour budget, me and Ed Balls.
article_snippet: It's not going to be Alex Salmond – not in a million years.'
article_snippet: Alex Salmond had previously ruled out a coalition with the party, but stopped short of ruling out the vote-by-vote arrangement proposed by the party. '
article_snippet: How other parties decide to vote on the basis of a Labour Queen's Speech is up to other parties,' Alex Salmond said.
article_snippet: SNP deputy leader Stewart Hosie said Mr Miliband would be 'very, very foolish' to rule out a post-election agreement, which would prevent the Conservatives from gaining power.
article_snippet: On the claim of an unholy alliance between the Tories and the party, SNP deputy leader Stewart Hosie said: 'I think Mr Miliband has lost the plot entirely.'
highlights_snippet: Ed Miliband uses speech in Clydebank to dismiss Alex Salmond's threats .
  