So minority voters have to be "appealed" to then? The candidate must be "appealing"?

[sibelian]

19. Oh, it was a HOOT! Everyone was SO freaked out

Every stereotype of Scottish people imaginable, practically in alphabetical order!! From the national press that prides itself on impartiality and good sense!

You should have seen the stuff they came out with about Nicola Sturgeon, you think Hillary gets it because of her hair? "Viper", "Poisonous", "witch", all sorts of revoltingly sexist stuff.

The Guardian was no better than anyone else!

Anyway, our eyes are opened and we now observe Westminster with a mix of wry amusement and withering contempt, biding our time.

You know that the SNP got a flat out INSANE number of Scottish seats, like, practically ALL of them? 56 out of 59!! We're going to have "One Party State" stuff thrown at us now for the remainder of human history, sigh...

So, basically, my feeling is that the ground is nowhere NEAR as stable as people think it is. Labour basically used to own Scotland. Never mind the Democratic Blue Wall, it was like a Scottish Labour Red Forcefield extending 500 miles straight up into space. And it fell completely flat, like, to NOTHING, in two election cycles! If that can happen in SCOTLAND, which is pretty much the most politically rigid populace on the planet it can happen ANYWHERE. That's what I think.

Or maybe Scottish people are just weird....