It’s another tumultuous Jim Murphy Rally, readers!
We’re just putting this shot of today’s brief Edinburgh gathering (from Isabel Hardman of the Spectator) here for the record, so people can compare it with the footage and images that appear on tonight’s news bulletins and tomorrow’s newspapers.
A super-alert reader pointed out something about today’s Sunday Politics that we hadn’t noticed. Before the galaxy-class trainwreck that was the Scottish leaders’ debate, the networked section of the show had a piece on Scottish polling, and our eagle-eyed viewer spotted that the chart of projected seats wasn’t in proportion.
So we measured, and this is what it should have looked like.
Because we know you love a conference gallery.
Here’s the Scottish Lib Dems in Aberdeen.
From Steve Bell in your liberal, Labour-supporting Guardian today:
Feel that social-democratic brotherly British love, readers.
Packed Labour benches for the devolution debate in the Commons today.
We’re sure Gordon Brown’s just nipped out for a Snickers or something.
The SNP’s new leader and First Minister-elect, and her deputy.
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#HS2: £86,000,000,000 for a railway using yesterday's technology running 211 miles between London and Manchester. That's about £400,000,000 per mile.
Imagine the improvement possible to Scotland's entire rail network for the cost of just 10 miles of HS2!
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