We can’t win a workable majority without breaking through in more seats in the urban and suburban North and Midlands.
Plus: This week’s focus groups in Glasgow, Paisley and Edinburgh; and who would play whom in Nicola Sturgeon: The Movie?
There has been no escape from the need to cut spending – but the cuts have been poorly managed.
The SNP cannot now claim, having failed to win a majority at Holyrood, to have a clear mandate for constitutional change.