How the Scots voted: They won't save money, they want nationalists

"What we are seeing is that Scotland has voted to give confidence to the Scottish National Party so that Scotland's voice is heard, a clear voice for an end to austerity, better public services and more progressive politics in Westminster," Sturgeon told the BBC.
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Nikola Sturgeon, Photo: Reuters
Nikola Sturgeon, Photo: Reuters
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Ažurirano: 08.05.2015. 07:39h

The president of the Scottish National Party (SNP), Nicola Sturgeon, who won almost all the seats in Scotland according to the first election results, said today that voters have shown with their votes that they want an end to the austerity policy.

The electoral success of the Scottish nationalists was largely achieved at the expense of the Labor Party, which had strong support in Scotland for decades.

The SNP leader said that Labor has been losing the trust of Scots for years.

"What we are seeing is that Scotland has voted to give confidence to the Scottish National Party so that Scotland's voice is heard, a clear voice for an end to austerity, better public services and more progressive politics in Westminster," Sturgeon told the BBC.

The Scottish National Party, which advocates independence from Britain, won, according to preliminary voting results, 55 seats in the lower house of parliament, while it had six deputies so far.

According to the latest figures from 568 out of 650 constituencies, the Conservative Party leads with 269 MPs, while Labor won 214. Eight seats each in the lower house of parliament went to the Liberal Democratic Party and the Democratic Unionist Party in Northern Ireland, and one to the UK Independence Party ( UKIP).

Labor leader Ed Miliband has admitted that his party is likely to suffer an election defeat.

"This is obviously a very disappointing and difficult night for the Labor Party," Miliband said.

Labor will have fewer MPs than before, and they have lost the most support in Scotland.

"We have not achieved our goals in England and Wales, and in Scotland the wave of nationalism has sunk our party," said the Labor leader.

The Mayor of London, Conservative Boris Johnson, said that if the preliminary results were correct, it would mean "a very clear victory for the Conservatives and a very bad night for Labour".

Nick Clegg, president of the Liberal Democratic Party, a former coalition partner of the Conservatives, admitted that his party suffered a heavy electoral defeat.

"It is now painfully clear that this was a ruthless and difficult night for the Liberal Democrats," said Clegg.

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