1) Time for Scottish independence
2) Incumbents did well
3) Labour still strong in cities
4) Aren’t the Greens great too?
The kindest possible interpretation is that whoever wrote this felt the ‘Tories do well, Labour collapse in heartlands’ narrative had got a bit stale. But someone should surely have thought ‘hang on a minute’...
Even just on the first one, the idea the SNP have a mandate is very debatable indeed. For the national broadcaster to airily proclaim it is... not great.
To be fair the text is far more nuanced - blame probably with whoever wrote the headlines/subtitles.
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