Losing it left, right, and centre
WELL, that was quite an election. With Ed Miliband, Nigel Farage, and Nick Clegg standing down, a reader explained: "They are losing party leaders left, right, and centre."
We did like losing Labour candidate in East Kilbride Michael McCann's quick adjustment to his new status.
When asked by BBC reporter Catriona Renton for an interview after he was defeated, he crisply replied: "I don't need to talk to you, I'm not a politician anymore."
Jim winks out of the spotlight
POOR Jim Murphy - the Scottish Labour leader is not having the best of times.
As Glasgow stand-up Janey Godley put it: "Jim Murphy hanging on to this job like the comic who keeps dying onstage but turns up with 'my mother-in-law' jokes at open mic nights."
Incidentally, one bookies has Jim at 66/1 to be the next leader of the UK Labour Party, so perhaps someone believes in him.
Polls don't really have it at all
WHAT about the dodgy opinion polls in the run-up to the vote?
Writer David Schneider commented: "Latest YouGov poll finds 63 per cent of people still trust opinion polls, as opposed to 59 per cent who don't."
Lucky dog lends SNP a paw?
AT LEAST the TV companies exit poll was more reliable.
Reader Andy Cumming observes: "I have my own theory as to how the exit poll worked in the Rutherglen constituency.
"The wee white Scottie dog with the yellow coat sitting outside the polling station got a pat on the head from all SNP supporters."
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