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SNP still has a majority in Scotland after losing 21 seats; huge Tory upsurge
The Scottish National Party´s, SNP, former leader Alex Salmond has lost his Gordon seat amid a Scottish Conservative surge. The Tories also defeated the SNP's deputy leader Angus Robertson as they won seats across the country. The SNP finished on 35 seats - a majority of the 59 Scottish constituencies but a drop of 21 from the 56 they won in 2015. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesThe SNP still has power for now but quite clearly more Scots than they'd hoped still wish to remain part of the United Kingdom.
Jun 09th, 2017 - 09:07 am - Link - Report abuse +2Lets see what happens in the comming Scottish Independence Referendum. By the way, what the heck just happened to the predicted Tory landslide?
Jun 09th, 2017 - 09:48 am - Link - Report abuse -1EscoSesDoidao
Jun 09th, 2017 - 10:18 am - Link - Report abuse +2There is no coming Inderef2 now...it is dead...
For Scotland it was just as I predicted that the SNP would lose a lot of seats to the Tories..
Including your seat I believe...
TWIMC
Jun 09th, 2017 - 10:37 am - Link - Report abuse -3Indiref2 is more alive than ever...
Tactical voting from the Scots this time..
Next time......, all together for Alba gu bràth...
Lol. Of course it's not dead. SNP are still the majority.
Jun 09th, 2017 - 10:58 am - Link - Report abuse -3https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2017/06/tories-leap-unpopularity-abyss/
Bràthair...;-)
Jun 09th, 2017 - 11:05 am - Link - Report abuse -3Nicola Sturgeon wasn't laughing. Her party lost more seats than the Tories did, even if they do still have a majority. After their incredible result last time they could expect to lose seats, but not this many, especially when the Tories were losing across England and Wales.
Jun 09th, 2017 - 12:01 pm - Link - Report abuse +2Mr.DemonTree...
Jun 09th, 2017 - 12:23 pm - Link - Report abuse -3One can't blame the million or so Sassenach residents in bonnie Alba... for voting for ANYONE that will save them from the same uncertainty currently affecting millions of other foreigners North and South of the Scottish Border...
But as me wee bràthair Doido correctly states...
“SNP are still the majority”
Alba gu bràth...
El Think...
Half a million, and I don't know whether they made a difference to the outcome, but it doesn't matter. Whoever voted yesterday will also have a vote in another referendum. 60% of the electorate voted for pro-unionist parties, and that has got to make the SNP think twice. They won't want to hold another referendum unless/until they can win it.
Jun 09th, 2017 - 02:25 pm - Link - Report abuse +3And something for you to bear in mind: if the SNP hadn't lost those 12 seats to the Tories, Corbyn could be about to become PM now instead of May staying on with help from the scandal-hit DUP.
Mr. DemonTree...
Jun 09th, 2017 - 02:36 pm - Link - Report abuse -3You say...:
《“And something for you to bear in mind: if the SNP hadn't lost those 12 seats to the Tories, Corbyn could be about to become PM now instead of May staying on with help from the scandal-hit DUP.”》
I say...:
I Think it is YOU that should bear the above in mind... It is YOUR government..., not mine.. I'm just a humble Argie-Patagonian dweller..., remember ...
They ain't DUPing me..., they ain't....;-)
Oh I am, but you were sooo keen for Corbyn to win.
Jun 09th, 2017 - 03:01 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Which is more important to you, negotiations on the Falklands or a second independence referendum for Scotland?
1) Just me auld SI heart beating a bit hardsr for a comrade...
Jun 09th, 2017 - 03:09 pm - Link - Report abuse -22) The first...
That's what I thought. Brotherhood only goes so far.
Jun 09th, 2017 - 03:40 pm - Link - Report abuse +1For me, I feel very ambivalent about those 12 seats...
The question is why is this piece appearing in Mercopenguin, a propaganda organ supposedly devoted to America, South America and the “South Atlantic”?
Jun 10th, 2017 - 02:14 am - Link - Report abuse -2Heppy, it IS because it is NEWS, everyone is trembling in their toes as regards Teresa being elected.
Jun 10th, 2017 - 08:04 am - Link - Report abuse 0SNP only have the support of 37%. So the 45r's have become the 37r's.
Jun 11th, 2017 - 10:27 am - Link - Report abuse +2As San Martin said in Mendoza right before the Andes Crossing: Those that don't deserve to be free... simply aren't.
Jun 12th, 2017 - 04:42 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Hepatia
Jun 14th, 2017 - 08:07 pm - Link - Report abuse 0It's so that think can posture about his “Scottish roots”. what else ?
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