I'll dig out the chart again, if I can find it, but when you look at post-war general

election results, minus the votes cast in Scotland, actually it doesn't end up making a difference to the party with the overall majority in most elections. There's only a few years different, but as you'd expect those are years that would be Tory without the jock vote but were actually labour.

Posted By: Arizona Bay on May 23rd 2014 at 16:07:38

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Lovely Old Great Yarmouth (General Chat) - Tricky Hawes, May 23, 15:22:09
- yes and some of us are not happy about it (n/m) (General Chat) - ghostof barry butler, May 23, 16:45:47
- Aparently they got loads of votes in Sunderland, which seems odd considering that (General Chat) - CB41, May 23, 15:48:26
  - as UKIP have admitted they tend not to do well with young, cultured or educated people (General Chat) - Ralf Scrampton, May 23, 15:53:14
- am i right in thinking labour have been hot the most nationally during these polls? (General Chat) - Cheltenham_Canary, May 23, 15:30:38
  - "hit" not "hot" (n/m) (General Chat) - Cheltenham_Canary, May 23, 15:30:56
    - No. Labour have gained 220 councillors so far in England (General Chat) - Tricky Hawes, May 23, 15:47:23
      - Does anyone know what happens if the Scots vote for independence?? (General Chat) - Old Git, May 23, 16:00:42
        
        Alec Salmonds fat smug face may actually explode (n/m) (General Chat) - Meh, May 23, 16:17:28
        
        Yes (General Chat) - Tricky Hawes, May 23, 16:08:38
        
        Gosh, really (General Chat) - Old Git, May 23, 16:12:18
        
        I'll dig out the chart again, if I can find it, but when you look at post-war general (General Chat) - Arizona Bay, May 23, 16:07:38
        
        Hare few lut (General Chat) - Arizona Bay, May 23, 16:08:47
        
        Obvs not the full story, because majorities might be slimmer (General Chat) - Arizona Bay, May 23, 16:15:07
        
        But everything pre 79 is irrelevant (General Chat) - Old Git, May 23, 16:22:30
        
        Possibly too small a sample set to be sure, but it wouldn't have made a difference (General Chat) - Arizona Bay, May 23, 16:28:04
        
        Yes, those were the Blair landslide years (General Chat) - Old Git, May 23, 16:30:45
        
        Cor, and in 1992, Major would have had a majority of 71 not 21, per BBC (General Chat) - Old Git, May 23, 16:34:26
      - .......... (General Chat) - Tricky Hawes, May 23, 15:47:39
- Check out the candidates (General Chat) - norway, May 23, 15:28:15
  - proper lol (n/m) (General Chat) - Bungle, May 23, 15:34:27
  - haha (n/m) (General Chat) - Tricky Hawes, May 23, 15:30:20
- UKIP have saved money already by booting out the Mayor (n/m) (General Chat) - harry boulders, May 23, 15:24:25

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