Memories of the Thatcher era would flood back, Alex Salmond would apply his Braveheart woad as true protector of the nation, and the Labour Party would go off to fight a civil war for a political generation, perhaps never to recover.
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Threat of Tory win fails to give SNP a boost
Received wisdom has long had it that once it became ever more likely that Labour would lose to the Conservatives at the next General Election, there would be a tidal shift to the SNP in Scotland.
