Nick Rougvie on Election 2010 night
Newsdrive presenter Nick Rougvie writes about :
"Most pundits agreed beforehand that it was going to be a and so it transpires. Eight hours of radio with the great, the good and the tired of Scottish politics last night and yet it seems the real story is only just beginning to happen.
It became clear in the wee small hours that Labour had done well in ; Margaret Curran sweeping into Glasgow East, a seat they had lost to the SNP in a by-election; Jim Murphy increasing his majority in Renfrewshire East and the party staving off the threat to their MP's in Edinburgh. The SNP stood still as did the Tories, keeping just one MP north of the border, David Mundell in Dumfriesshire. The Liberal Democrats are probably rightly disappointed at their lack of progress across the country, despite all the talk of a Clegg-effect, it simply didn't materialise. Had you not known the UK-wide results and concentrated solely on Scotland you would assume it was a Labour landslide and yet they face being out of power at Holyrood and being the second placed party at Westminster.
So eight hours of live broadcasting, of following the twists and turns, the opinion formers ruminating, the spin doctors spinning. Yet we still don't know how the new government will look.
So back to the studio I go for another stint on Newsdrive - maybe it'll be a little clearer in a few hours time.
Or will we just arrange to do it all again in a few months time?"
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