Election-blogging

I decided not to vote SSP in the second vote tonight, because I reckoned that the Greens needed my second...

I decided not to vote SSP in the second vote tonight, because I reckoned that the Greens needed my second vote more.

An exit poll tonight suggests the SSP will go from 1 MSP to 9. (At the expense of mostly the Tories, I'm delighted to say - although I've just seen a second constituency which has a swing from the SNP to the SSP.)

At the same time, the panel on the BBC's election coverage is mostly Westminster coverage, and for all that Alex Salmond is saying that Scotland now has a 6-party system, rather than a 4-party system, they only have representatives from the big four.

Incidentally, the Tories are so resigned to losing in Glasgow that my local Tory Glasgow constituent candidate didn't even live in Glasgow's Postcode area.

Oh, and almost to a man (and occasionally woman), there is a wonderful plethora of accents in tonight's broadcast.