This was always going to be a difficult seat for the Nationalists to win, having to overcome a massive Labour majority with an electorate demoralised by decades of neglect from successive Unionist administrations(both Labour and Conservative), that more than half of them would not vote at all.
That the SNP achieved a victory in these circumstances is astonishing.

You still try to spin the result to look as if all the non-voters were anti-Independence, when it is much more likely that these non-voters have been alienated by the decades of Unionist neglect referred to above.

I don't normally put much faith in opinion polls as a guide to the policies or strengths of the respective political parties, but the polls I have linked to, require only simple yes/no/don'tknow answers and should prove to be reasonably accurate.

According to most commentators, the timescale for full Independence is now within 10 years...I would stick to my prediction of 5 given the momentum carried by Salmond and his Party and with the added impetous of the victory in Glasgow East.

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