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Originally Posted by Soldier Boy
I think they're underestimating the extent to which they'll need a lot more than the Greens to keep a majority. Their popularity has plummeted, I'd estimate it's worse than the Tories' situation south of the border at this point. SNP had massive support and it's totally tanked. It'll tank even further if Labour do indeed sweep the board in England at the next GE ... because the SNP are partially bolstered by anti-Tory sentiment - Wee Nic for example leveraged Scottish dislike of Tories very often (and very effectively). If that "enemy" is out of play for a while that is a strategic "loss" for the SNP as well. Plenty of "new" (post-2008) SNP voters will flip back to Labour if they see Labour as a viable option.
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the SNP also benefited in the past from labour being almost unelectable in england, so it was like a protest vote against the tories. If labour look like they are going to win, then it makes much morse sense to have as many scottish representatives within that party as they can, to increase the scottish influence
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