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Thread #157188   Message #3708633
Posted By: GUEST,Allan Conn
13-May-15 - 07:26 AM
Thread Name: BS: The Return!....of....New Labour!!!
Subject: RE: BS: The Return!....of....New Labour!!!
It doesn't reflect directly but it shows how the parties are standing and the Tories have made no impact into anyone's vote. There may have been a bit tactical voting but I don't think it would have been significant despite the workings of the Daily Mail etc. The plain facts are they got their lowest share of the vote ever and were just a few hundred votes away from losing their only MP and once again being without any Scottish MPs - on a night when their two main unionist rivals lost 29% of the share. Can't even be blamed on UKIP who only got about 1.6% share. And more worryingly for the Tories the 15% figure ties in with what polls seem to be showing for the Scottish elections next year. Ruth Davidson seems to think they may well be the official opposition in Scotland but that is I think real head in the sand stuff when she is only on 15% for the constituency vote. What may have been a problem for her was the Cameron/May anti-Scottish rhetoric. That can't have helped her cause at all in Scotland. Labour despite the collapse still has almost twice the popularity of the Tories. I think Labour are also far more likely to win back some of their wayward voters than the Tories are likely to win new voters. Remember they have been bobbing along on the teens percentage wise for years now! They also have the problem of a more elderly support base and membership. Time and demographics are not a friend to the Tories in Scotland