In the view of the conservative majority, the answer was yes.
There are many points of view even on a Court with a working conservative majority.
"But that could reduce the Conservative majority from 140 to 40 or 50."
Someone or some group wants a different Court, one with an absolute conservative majority.
You have to go back over half a century to find the last conservative majority in Scotland.
In 1966, the Conservative majority fell to a record low of 1,200 votes.
"We were so close to locking in a conservative majority on the Court into the next century."
Power on the board has shifted almost every election since 1998, with the current conservative majority taking hold in 2004.
The result was a conservative majority lasting 35 years, until the 1902 election.
With such an overwhelming Conservative majority it was felt that 1932 would be important.