"To say that all votes for minority parties are wasted is rather a facile generalisation, more than ever this time round, when there is a real possibility that neither of the two big parties will achieve a majority." That is absolutely correct. Opinion polls in Scotland have not shown the SNP doing all that well. However it has probably less to do with people's attitude to them as it has to the idea that some people have that a vote for them is a bit wasted at Westmisnter where they can only ever be a minor force. It is in these times when majorities could be none existent or quite small that the smaller parties (talking about UK wide) could push way above their weight.
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