Loser Takes All
May 6, 2017
In the May 4th Scottish council elections, the SNP were the outright winners, increasing their share of the vote, number of seats and margin over the second-place Tories. But if you'd been listening to the Scottish press, you'd assume it was a massive defeat and that the Tories had swept all before them. The Tories ran on a 'No second referendum' platform and lost - raising the question 'will they accept the verdict?'