"puts the SNP in with a chance of winning the 2020 [UK] General Election."
You mean, winning the majority of the Scottish seats? No party that runs only in Scotland can win the General Election, no matter how well it does.
That also tends to assume bottomless SNP talent pool. Even though dual seating is possible between Holyrood and Westminster, is it not?, the same factors that draw Labour talent towards the latter also, mutatis mutandis, draw SNP talent towards the former. SNP can form a government in Holyrood. It can't in Westminster.
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Date: 2014-10-04 05:26 pm (UTC)You mean, winning the majority of the Scottish seats? No party that runs only in Scotland can win the General Election, no matter how well it does.
That also tends to assume bottomless SNP talent pool. Even though dual seating is possible between Holyrood and Westminster, is it not?, the same factors that draw Labour talent towards the latter also, mutatis mutandis, draw SNP talent towards the former. SNP can form a government in Holyrood. It can't in Westminster.