According to the conversation tonight, not even a majority of seats, but a plurality.
Anyway you’re absolutely right that given the tact that they had chosen it’s hard to read today’s projected result as anything other than a failure. But I was speaking more about when the conversation turned away from the direct outcome of today’s results and more towards the general longer-term future prospects for independence. I don’t recognise any of their other panellists (pic attached below), but the guy on Sturgeon’s left (camera right) and to a lesser extent the other panellists were making reference to the fact that the previous referendum failed and how no future government would ever allow another referendum (with the exception of if Labour relied on the SNP to form a minority government, which was thought possible a year ago). That’s when it would have seemed obvious to me for Sturgeon to point out the false promise that led to the result in 2014.
According to the conversation tonight, not even a majority of seats, but a plurality.
Anyway you’re absolutely right that given the tact that they had chosen it’s hard to read today’s projected result as anything other than a failure. But I was speaking more about when the conversation turned away from the direct outcome of today’s results and more towards the general longer-term future prospects for independence. I don’t recognise any of their other panellists (pic attached below), but the guy on Sturgeon’s left (camera right) and to a lesser extent the other panellists were making reference to the fact that the previous referendum failed and how no future government would ever allow another referendum (with the exception of if Labour relied on the SNP to form a minority government, which was thought possible a year ago). That’s when it would have seemed obvious to me for Sturgeon to point out the false promise that led to the result in 2014.