From: me@privacy.net   
      
   Alan Smaill  wrote in   
   news:fwetwvkl3ev.fsf@rockefeller.inf.ed.ac.uk:   
      
   >   
   > Nicholas Benjamin  writes:   
   >   
   >> On Sunday, May 10, 2015 at 4:43:38 AM UTC-4, soupdragon wrote:   
   >>> doctor@doctor.nl2k.ab.ca (The Doctor) wrote   
   > ...   
   >>> > SNP sweeps Sctoland with the others getting 1 seat each.   
   >>>   
   >>> And, just to clarify. The Scottish parliament has 5 parties, not 3.   
   It   
   >>> did have 6 until Sheriden's SSP went into melt down. UKIP have made   
   no   
   >>> headway in Scotland and have no representatives, so they don't count   
   >>   
   >> So we're talking about an election to the UK Parliament, which is   
   >> first-past-the-post; and you're using numbers from the elections to   
   >> the MMP Scots Parliament?   
   >>   
   >> My friend, you have truly mastered the art   
   >> of fuzzy logic.   
   >>   
   >> In the UK Parliamentary election, which is the one we are actually   
   >> talking about, there are three parties and a guy from Dumfries. The   
   >> three parties are Labour,. the LibDems, and the SNP. Thaty is a   
   >> three-party system.   
   >   
   > Let's see Conservatives, LibDems, Labour, SNP --   
   > that makes 4.  (the Conservatives got more votes in Scotland   
   > than the LibDems;  Con, LibDem and Labour have 1 seat each.)   
   > Not to mention that the UK parliament has Green and UKIP MPs (and NI   
   > parties).   
      
   Please don't confuse the troll with facts, Alan.   
      
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