Breaking News (Apparently)

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/election-2016-wales-36207410


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Tories second party in Scotland ... what has happened to Labour in Scotland?

[retrocop]

Talbot
Wait for Mikey. He has all the answers. :-)

[naomi24]

They're not doing too well in Wales either (apparently).

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/election-2016-wales-36207410

[ToraToraTora]

well rub me down with the socialist worker, Tories the opposition in Scotland, Who'd have thought it. Not a single Labour man in Weegie land! Will Jezza be fighting the next general election?

[retrocop]

Seems like Labour party members are in disarray. Jezza is losing a few friends within. That didn't take long.
https://uk.news.yahoo.com/labour-facing-tough-night-polls-results-pour-super-233212438.html

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It's a pity that SKY didn't put all of Kezia Dugdale's exchange with Dermot Murnaghan on their website, I found it hilarious.

http://news.sky.com/video/1691248/independence-debate-crushes-labour

Is she is related to Comical Ali?

[Gromit]

In Scotland and in Wales Labour are being beaten by a socialist Party. And the electorate are choosing the SNP instead of Labour which has taken them for granted for decades. So Labour are blown away.

While it sounds impressive to say the Tories are now the second party in Scotland, it isn't really. Out of 129 seats they have 31.

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So who are?

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oops read that last post wrong.

[Gromit]

// Who'd have thought it. Not a single Labour man in Weegie land! //

24 Labour seats, just 7 less than the Tories. While the Tories have a handful more seats than Labour, combined they are less than the SNPs total.

[ToraToraTora]

.....and Labour have, Gromit...?

[ToraToraTora]

Yes but the Tories are hated in Scotland and yest we still beat Labour, how bad are Labour?

[maggiebee]

I have worked hard for the SNPs over the past few weeks and am really pleased with the result. Having said that, the Tories coming second came as a complete surprise.

[Gromit]

// ...and Labour have, Gromit...? //

I realise you are ne of the bankers that nearly bankrupted the country, and had to be bailed out by the taxpayer, but even you should be able to work out 7 less than 31 = 24 seats.

The SNP are more socialist then Labour, so Labour voters have changed allegiance. How bad are Labour - very bad in Scotland where the main opposition has stolen their clothes and they fit better.

[ladyalex]

The Tories are not hated in all parts of Scotland.
They have always had support in the Borders and in Angus and the Mearns.
It was when the Westminster Government of the 70s and 80s started ignoring Scotland at best and experimenting with it at worst (remember the Poll Tax?) that Tories really lost support in Scotland.....and as far as I can see until the founding of the Scottish Parliament, they have shown precious little interest in getting any support back....and even then not much.
5 million population or thereabouts.....why should they care about the Scots?

[steg]

I think people want a strong opposition to challenge the SNP, and labour (up here anyway) are not that at any level, where as the conservatives have Ruth Davidson who I think is a very good leader for them and a good hard working politician.
I think she would be a good replacement for Dave

[ToraToraTora]

I remember the community charge, a very sensible way of doing local funding.

[douglas9401]

The Scottish conservative is a completely different animal from it's nasty cousin south of the border.
Many of us in Caledonia realise this and, given this was an election for the Scottish parly, voted accordingly.

[ToraToraTora]

I'm not a banker gromit, I work in IT. dunno where you got that from.

[youngmafbog]

Lets not allow facts to get in the way of good old mud slinging TTT !!

[jim360]

TTT's entirely irrelevant career notwithstanding, it was not as bad a night for Labour as I'd hoped. Tories didn't do so well either, though -- except in Scotland, but that was perhaps in part because they were trying to hide the fact that they were Tories. "Vote for Ruth Davidson and her team", their campaign literature said.

The two big winners last night were UKIP and, oddly, the Lib Dems...