The arithmetic is something like this:

47 + 2 + 16 = SNP government with Smuggy as FM. Actually it equals the magic number of 65 that would mean an overall majority.

However the 16 part of the equation is being - to use a weasel political word - 'unhelpful'.

And so snpy people are now spitting the dummy about the Lib Dems and how awful they are, the same people who vilified them for 'propping up' a Labour government, but who seem to think they ought to be 'propping up' a snpy government on the basis that it has one more seat than Labour.
Anon A Moss | 05.09.07 - 12:37 am | #

Some people claim wisdom comes with age. I, on the other hand, refute this from my own experience: the older I get, the less I understand.

Ah Grasshopper - Callow youth knows it understands, because it only sees the superficial the surface.
It is because you have developed wisdom, you now realise you do not necessarily understand.
Phil A | 05.09.07 - 8:25 am | #