XPost: soc.culture.scottish, soc.culture.welsh, soc.culture.cornish   
   XPost: soc.culture.irish   
   From: doctor@doctor.nl2k.ab.ca   
      
   In article <463E1599.2000105@teinntreach.net>,   
   StormWind   wrote:   
   >The Highlander wrote:   
   >> On Sat, 05 May 2007 12:57:21 GMT, StormWind   
   >>  wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> Ian wrote:   
   >>>> On 5 May, 13:08, StormWind  wrote:   
   >>>>   
   >>>>> When you look at where many Lib Dem constituencies are located such   
   >>>>> opposition would be folly for the Lib Dems. They'd get wiped out next   
   >>>>> election !!!   
   >>>> Oh yeah? Bearing in mind that they have just been standing on a   
   >>>> platform which explicitly opposed a referendum on independence they   
   >>>> are more likely to be punished by the voters if they change their   
   >>>> position to support.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> Ian   
   >>>>   
   >>> The Scottish Nationalist Party (SNP) was the ONLY winner and it did do   
   >>> magnificently - the others lost seats including the Lib Dems. The   
   >>> electorate has spoken !!!   
   >>>   
   >>>                      Gain/Loss Total Seats   
   >>> SNP  	21  	26  	+20  	47   
   >>> LAB 	37 	9 	-4 	46   
   >>> CON 	4 	13 	-1 	17   
   >>> LD 	11 	5 	-1 	16   
   >>> Others 	0 	3 	-14 	3   
   >>   
   >> I still fear that the SNP vote may simply be the Scots telling Labour   
   >> that they're pissed off by all the overspending, crime and the war.   
   >>   
   >> Old loyalties die hard and come the next election they may switch   
   >> back, unless Brown really puts in the boot to punish them for not   
   >> voting Labour this time round. Personally, I'm amazed that anyone   
   >> voted for their re-election instead of for mass hangings outside   
   >> Westminster Hall.   
   >>   
   >> The nationalists may well yet rue the day they lost Blair to hammer   
   >> home the message that Westminster thinks of Scotland as a resources   
   >> hinterland and beyond that, just anothe bloody nuisance like Northern   
   >> Ireland.   
   >   
   >And still a source of cannon-fodder too !   
      
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