Today we're going to do some simple sums and hopefully put to rest one of the big myths that's doing the rounds, mostly perpetuated by those who still take instruction from the press on how to vote.
I've heard a few people say this since Thursday: "Thanks to you SNP supporters we've ended up with a Tory government".
So let's just quickly add it up, shall we?
323 electoral seats are required to form a majority government.
Labour won 232, Conservatives won 331 and SNP won 56. There are 59 electoral seats up for grabs in Scotland.
232 + 56 = 288 = <323
Now, supposing every single person in Scotland went out on Thursday and voted Labour and we elected 59 Labour MPs and sent them to Westminster, it still would have made zero difference to the outcome, we still would have ended up with a Tory government we hadn't voted for. Same as happens at every election.
This isn't the first time I've mentioned this.
Labour did not lose the election because they lost Scotland, they lost the election because they lost the media war. Simply put, the mainstream media wanted the Tories, same as in 2010 and they pulled out every dirty trick in the book to make sure it happened. Labour lost because Ed Miliband can't eat a bacon sandwich and the majority of UK residents of voting age can't use the Internet or an analytical mind.
Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.
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