Quote Originally Posted by brocktonblockbust View Post
Quote Originally Posted by ryanman View Post
Quote Originally Posted by brocktonblockbust View Post
snp to stop the tories!!!
Afraid not. Tories have been dead in Scotland for years. SNP won't take votes from them because there aren't any to take. They will take votes from Labour.
@ryanman please explain, isnt Scotland to have power by electing a strong team of SNP MPs to a hung parliament at Westminster?
Well any party, other than the big two, winning seats is more likely to lead to a hung Parliament yes. And it does look like the SNPs will do well, but they can only take seats from Labour, not the Tories.

Currently in Scotland Labour has 41 MPs, SNP has 6 and Tories have 1. So a strong result for the SNP will do nothing to hurt the Tories but is a real threat to Labour. The Tories have nothing (well, just 1 MP) that the SNP can take.

Of course it won't make a Tory majority more likely but it does mean that they are more likely to be the largest single party and thus get first dibs on a deal to form a coalition, or even to rule as a minority government.