Al MacGore to the rescue

Are all left liberals the whole world over mean spirited hateful sore losers like the Democrats in 2000? I guess so. It appears that the Labor Party in Scotland is prepared to take a page out of the Sore/Loserman Florida playbook and challenge the results of last week's elections. From The Scotsman:

THE Labour party is planning to snatch electoral victory from the Nationalists by preparing a legal challenge over a Holyrood seat which the SNP won by a handful of votes.

Labour party lawyers are planning to contest the result in Cunninghame North, which the Nationalists won by just 48 votes, giving them a one-seat victory.

But with an estimated 1,000 spoiled ballot papers having been declared at the count, and amid allegations of missing ballot papers, the party has begun moves to have the entire election reviewed and, if necessary, taken to an Electoral Court.

Labour party managers in the constituency have also written to the count's returning officer to demand that all the spoiled ballot papers be made publicly available and re-examined.

They believe the errors disproportionately affected the party in the count, and led to their loss.

Any review of the result would throw last Thursday's dramatic election into chaos. If Labour managed to overturn the result in their favour, they would overtake the SNP as the biggest party, handing them four more years as the leading party at Holyrood.

The SNP branded Labour "sore losers" over the attempts last night, and insisted that there was no way that any legal challenge would be accepted.

That this will subject Scotland to the same kind of turmoil and breed the same kind of bitter feelings that the debacle of Florida 2000 created in the US is a matter of no consequence to Labor.