I WOULD like to point out that the Tory party has maintained the same number of seats in Scotland with a gain in Gordon, and if D Ross hadn’t stabbed the sitting MP in the back in Aberdeenshire North and Moray East, the sitting MP would have probably won. So much for a wipe-out. OK, a reduced majority, but still there.
David Grieve
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