IN strict numerical terms, the Scottish Liberal Democrats are an irrelevance.
Locked in a toxic embrace with the Conservatives at Westminster, the party has been punished remorselessly by voters.
In May's local election, they lost 95 of 166 councillors. The year before, they went from 16 to five at Holyrood, losing every constituency south of Orkney.
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