Didn't Nicola Do Well?

[Quizmonster]

Congratulations, lass...at least your people managed to get rid of half of them in Scotland!

[emmie]

QM she still won't get her referendum..

[anneasquith]

Her and her party did well . I’m sure we have our “ All things Scottish Experts on site. Carry on .......

[emmie]

just because one lives in a place Scotland, England or wherever it doesn't make one an expert, unless one is involved in politics, and not even then.

[emmie]

she did well as expected.

[emmie]

i believe that we are stronger together, it's why i don't wish to see a split in the Union.

[Old_Geezer]

They all operate within the UK. Campaigning in one area to maximise success is simply a decision not to be a nationwide party, as all parties vying for a position in a national government should be. Any party that opts to be local loses any significant voice in the national parliament, no matter how squeaky a wheel they are. Clearly the SNP did not do better than the Tories, they merely appeared to do well having started from a low number of seats and votes.

[Togo]

The limp dumbs polled 12% of the total vote and have 11 seats. The Green with envies polled 3% of the total vote and have 1 seat. The Scottish nationalists polled 4% of the total vote and appear to have 48 seats in a parliament that they do not want to be part of. Now if that isn't a very noisy tail trying to wag a very big dog I don't know what is. Time to part company. If you are Scottish and want independence it appears to define you as a good old patriotic bhoy, but if you are English and wish for the same it makes you a racist little Englander. Bless. Perhaps they secretly do not want Independence as much as they would have us believe. They vote in the voice box, but deny her the referendum result that she craves. Perhaps they just like being a nuisance, you know a sort of perverse kick out of being objectionable just for the sake and because they can. Like a recalcitrant stroppy teenagers who objects to parental guidance but is afraid to take the responsibility for themselves.

[THECORBYLOON]

TOGO, that is the way the voting system works in the UK and it's a system the electorate chose to keep.

[THECORBYLOON]

There will be a fair few Scots offended by being call a "bhoy" by the way.

[hereIam]

I'm offended by being called a 'Little Englander' ..

[maggiebee]

I support the SNPs and am so happy that they managed to gain even more seats at the election. I look forward to independence, can't come too soon for me - can you really ignore a whole country's wishes?

[Quizmonster]

I presume then, OG, that you see nothing agley with activists from the DUP delivering leaflets to homes in Basingstoke or Plaid Cymru ones making speeches in Union Terrace Gardens in Aberdeen!

[Togo]

Perhaps Boris, with his huge mandate from the Country, will change these anomalies. Whilst sorting out the TV licence scam, and purging the corridors of power of the 5th columnists and EUSSR facilitators. Then turn his hand to installing some fair and proper controls on the left wing dominated plaything called so shall me dya.

[Quizmonster]

I forgot to add above that percentages are percentages; the size of the actual figures involved is irrelevant. There is no way that 56% is better than 81% or 44% is better than 45%.

[Old_Geezer]

Well Quiz, if they've candidates standing in those areas of course there's nothing wrong with leafleting there.

[emmie]

if there was a Scottish referendum tomorrow how many would vote for it. Just because they have put the SNP in a dominant position doesn't mean that 100 percent of Scottish people want to split from the Union.

[THECORBYLOON]

" Then turn his hand to installing some fair and proper controls on the left wing dominated plaything called so shall me dya."

Eh?

[Quizmonster]

OG, I asked if you saw anything "agley" with such activities by political activists, not whether they were permissible. "Agley" is a fine old Scots word meaning 'askew' or 'awry'. In plain English, that's 'darned peculiar', to put it mildly for AB!

[THECORBYLOON]

Why would the Tories be in favour of PR when they have a huge majority with less than half the votes?

[Old_Geezer]

Indeed and I answered your question.