Could an American third party have this level of success at a national or regional level?
SNP is more leftist than labour.
Conservatives did not gain much at all. The big difference is that labour lost 56 seats to the ultra left SNP.
Exactly how conservative are the British “Conservatives?”
No. This is entirely an artifact of the independence referendum, which went down to defeat last year. I hope the new Parliament majority thinks seriously about some kind of federal system soon; the SNP crazies could make a lot of trouble for the UK.
Now that the fear of Scottish independence is over, the leftists can now safely vote for the SNP.
It's as simple as that. They get leftists who know how to where kilts, and now know not to try and go their separate way.
Reminds me of the Parti Quebecois back in the 1970s. After persecuting English-speakers for a while, , however, Quebec seems to have returned to the fold 40 years later. The English language doesn’t seem so bad now that everyone’s on the Internet.
What’s the point if the SNP is for EU Membership for Scotland? What kind of independence is that?
And each seat likely has a lower population than most every seat in the rest of the UK. The Uk should redraw their districts to make them more population equal, but then Scotland would vote for independence and leave the UK anyway.
Yes, and the SNP MPs are still sitting on the back benches.
The SNP should show the Plaid Crymid how to defeat the Labour in Wales...