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Unread 06-12-2017, 08:16 AM
Nigel Mace Nigel Mace is offline
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SNP support was not primarily the issue in the election. As even Andrew Neil has sussed the actual fall in the SNP's vote share was a miserly 1.7%, yet we lost 21 seats. The reason is exactly what I have described and pointed to in my postings above - tactical campaigning and voting by all three Unionist parties in what it is now clear was a common strategy orchestrated from the top. The 'sharing out' of the seat gained, mirrors, with uncanny accuracy, the levels of the Unionist's relative results in the preceding local elections. We will make every endeavour not to be caught twice and voters, taken for mugs by all three, are likely not to fall for the same trick again - for it demeans them.

You were also hyperbolically wrong about the dreadful Tories. As to your warm feelings about "the Scots", I seem to remember that your hope was that they - not the SNP - were "stuffed".
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