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   From: allan@noemail.co.uk   
      
   "StormWind"  wrote in message   
   news:463E1B03.4010900@teinntreach.net...   
   > The Doctor wrote:   
   >> In article <463E1599.2000105@teinntreach.net>,   
   >> StormWind   wrote:   
   >>> The Highlander wrote:   
   >>>> 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 !   
   >>   
   >> The Scots are not happy with Labour nor Conservative!   
   > They want to be able to vote on independence in a referendum fair and   
   > square, that's it. They have spoken through the ballot boxes. The LIb Dems   
   > did as badly as any other party except the SNP who shone so magnificently   
   > as to reveal to the world the wishes of the Scottish people !   
      
   You have to watch and not exaggerate how badly the other parties did. Labour   
   lost out but their actual share of the vote in the constituencies only fell   
   by 2.5% to 32.2%.  The Lib Dems, even though they lost 2 seats, actually   
   increased their share of the vote. The Conservative share of the vote stayed   
   the same. The SNP's share rose by 9.2% and it was a great success for them,   
   and a real watershed, however to keep it in persepctive it was only 32.9% of   
   the total vote or 0.7% ahead of Labour.   
      
   Allan   
      
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