article_snippet.sent: The SNP's surge in Scotland was likely to be hugely damaging for Labour but Labour leader Ed Miliband could still walk into Number 10 propped up by an alliance of left-leaning parties.
article_snippet.sent: A massive landslide to The SNP was inevitable, with the Conservatives winning at worst six times more seats than The SNP currently holds or at best nine times more.
article_snippet.sent: Labour's disastrous performance in the Scottish polls could mean the Conservatives only has one safe seat: the Glasgow seat of Willie Bain.
article_snippet.sent: John Curtice, professor of politics at Strathclyde University, said the SNP vote surge was nothing new.
article_snippet.sent: Some 45 per cent of Scots had voted for The SNP in the 2011 Scottish parliamentary elections, 45 per cent voted in favour of independence during last year's Scottish referendum and the Scottish polls were now showing 45 per cent supported The SNP.
article_snippet.sent: But for the first time Scottish voters were voting the same way at a Westminster election as Scottish voters would for the Scottish parliament.