Scottish National Party Has Huge Victory over Labour Party in Glasgow

The Scottish National Party, who favor full independence for Scotland from the UK, have won an historic victory over the British Labour Party:

GORDON Brown was hit by a political earthquake early this morning when the SNP narrowly snatched a sensational victory in the Glasgow East by-election.

John Mason won by 365 votes over Labour's Margaret Curran after recording a 22 per cent swing to the SNP. The declaration had been held up after Labour demanded a recount at 1:30am, with only 355 votes separating the two main parties.

Mr Mason, who had arrived at the count to a hero's welcome from party activists, told The Scotsman: "This is going to have a huge impact. Somebody said it's No 10 on the Richter scale. It just feels tremendous. It was a huge challenge, a huge majority to overcome.

"It is going to send a message all around the country."

This is quite ironic, since Gordon Brown, the Labour Prime Minister is himself a Scot. He will find it difficult to maintain Labour's majority in the next general elections.

The Scots are voting for the Scottish National Party candidates. The Ulstermen are voting for the DUP and Sinn Fein. The Welsh are voting for their Plaid Cymru party. And the English will probably vote heavily for Tories. There won't be very many Labour seats in the next Parliament.