Greens and Lefties vote nationalist in Scotland
voter | 04.05.2007 23:22 | Other Press
6 socialists (all of them) and 5 greens (all but 2) lose their seats in Scotland due to a tactical vote for the SNP according to the Guardian.
It quickly became clear last night that the SNP's surge in the polls was at the expense of smaller left-wing parties, whose supporters appear to have switched en masse to the nationalists - the most potent way of registering a protest vote against Labour.
Squeezed hard in the often-titanic battle between Mr Salmond's resurgent nationalist party and Labour's heavyweight campaign fronted by Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, the Scottish Socialist party and the Solidarity party led by Tommy Sheridan appeared to have lost all their seats, with Mr Sheridan the most high-profile casualty. Combined, they had held six places in Holyrood.
The Greens also suffered significantly from the highly-polarised campaign. After predicting confidently they would secure at least 10 seats, up from seven in the last parliament, the Greens by late yesterday afternoon had only secured two MSPs.
Squeezed hard in the often-titanic battle between Mr Salmond's resurgent nationalist party and Labour's heavyweight campaign fronted by Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, the Scottish Socialist party and the Solidarity party led by Tommy Sheridan appeared to have lost all their seats, with Mr Sheridan the most high-profile casualty. Combined, they had held six places in Holyrood.
The Greens also suffered significantly from the highly-polarised campaign. After predicting confidently they would secure at least 10 seats, up from seven in the last parliament, the Greens by late yesterday afternoon had only secured two MSPs.
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