Darn. A few months ago, I heard he was polling as low as 4th place in his own district. It would have been hilarious if that was the outcome on election day.
>> SNP wins all but 3 seats in Scotland (1 each for Tories/Lab/LD) Labour -40 in Scotland! <<
Now there's a result that makes no sense to me. "Scottish Independence" doesn't even come close to winning in the referendum vote last year, but they keep overwhelmingly electing the party pledged to doing exactly that. Weirdo Scots, make up your minds.
“Yes” got 45% in the Scottish referendum (on a high turnout of almost 85%).
SNP won about 50% of the vote for Parliament in this election, while that’s more than 30% higher than 5 years ago, it’s only a gain of 5% from “Yes”. So you take most of the “yes” voters and add a few disaffected Lib Dem and Labour voters (seems Labour ran a lousy campaign in Scotland) and there you go.
Their opposition was badly split so they easily scooped up seats by plurality. That’s multi-party politics for you. If the IRV thing had passed they’d not have won so many.
They’re to the left of Labour (though the marginalized right wing of the party is surely better than Labour) but it’s nice to see Labour reduced to 1 seat.
That 1 Scottish Tory knows he’s sure to get the Scottish Ministry.
Pinging the “The Scotsman” to this discussion
Maybe giving them fiscal autonomy (disaster) and the forbidding Scottish MPs from voting on rest-the-uk-only matters is what the future has in store.
As for Farange, no matter how many seats UKIP won, 1 seat or 30 seats, there was always a ZERO% chance anyone other than Cameron or Milliband would be PM.
UKIP could do with a better leader.