Johnny Martin

Agreed on all counts. The ignore function is an absolute godsend.

70/30, who told you that.. Sean Clerkin? You're overstating the proportion of Yesser Labour voters in recent elections. There are SNP voters who would vote No too btw. Your mind-reading skills have let you down, as that isn't the reason for me picking the FPTP constituency vote at all. The reason I chose it was to counter DeeTillEdDeh's mental point that a majority of parties vote for parties who want independence. They don't. It's also far more logical to use the constituency vote as a barometer of support for partition over the list, because people vote for wildcards on the list. I see you left out lots of the parties when adding up your totals.. I wonder why? No, I meant that Scots don't want independence. What are you on about?

It doesn't. The words both mean over half.

Thanks for the compliment OK, I jumped the gun and used the wrong word, but my points still stands. Most Scots don't vote for parties that support independence, nor do most of the Scottish electorate or most of those who vote.

We aren't ruled by Westminster. We elect MPs to it, same as the rest of the country. At the end of the day, Scots voted decisively in 2014 to remain in the Union by an 11% margin. There is no evidence of a swing to separation since.

Majority just means most i.e. over 50% MAJORITY | definition in the Cambridge English Dictionary majority noun [ U ] US /məˈdʒɔr·ɪ·t̬i, -ˈdʒɑr-/ Add to word list more than half of a total number or amount; the larger part of something: A majority of the people voted against the bill to raise school taxes. Unsure where you got your definition from. You should really know these things considering you're a teacher?

My assertion was that most Scots aren't bothered about rehashing an argument that was settled in 2014. A poster then said I must be wrong, because we vote independence parties in to power. I countered this by saying that most Scots don't, which is true. When determining the attitude of the public, a vote tally is far more accurate than the number of MSPs. At the last Holyrood election, independence supporting parties got less than 50% of constituency votes. Going by the list is daft as you've got all the single issue wildcard parties that muddy the waters. Scots don't want independence - plain and simple.

It seems to be all they know, sadly. Some of their posts are the kind of thing you'd see in a sketch show parodying Nats. Some of them definitely have an underlying bigotry, or not so underlying in the case of Dingus.

Most Scots don't.

Projection ain't clever.

No one's asking you to go back in a box, but to stop howling to the moon about an issue that was settled in 2014. Scots just can't be bothered with it anymore. Unsurprising to see you're motivated by anti-orange bigotry though, just like many other Scots Nationalists although not all.

For a lot of younger voters they can't remember a time when iNdEpEnDeNcE didn't dominate politics up here. It's become like Northern Ireland, with people voting for the best placed Unionist or Nationalist candidate. The SNP have a lot to answer for. As Scots move on the backwards SNP will still be trying to stoke division.

This is a chance for the people of Rutherglen and Hamilton West to bin the SNP and start moving forward as a country. Let's get back to normal. This constant independence chat is holding us back and people are sick of it.

One thing I'll say about Corbyn.. he has always supported free speech. There's no reason why a free speech party would have to be right wing. It'd garner support right across the spectrum, especially from old school lefties who solidified their ideas back in the day when the left actually cared about free speech.

Fox is Reclaim whereas Farage is Reform. Easily confused as their policies are the same and both two syllable words beginning with R.

A free speech party would garner serious support given the way things have been going, especially over the last decade or so.

Travesties of justice take place. For me, one innocent person wrongly being put to death is worse than 100 getting away with it. We can't take the chance.

I'm afraid that a lot of posters on this thread have been proven completely wrong here. Will they admit it? No chance.

He was Day Of The Lords too. He had quite a number of aliases.

Your mind reading and observational skills clearly ain't the best.

Think you've got the wrong end of the stick.

Fair enough. Hopefully he is a bit calmer if he ever returns. At least Stormzy can rest easy, if he's still around. Benjamin really didn't like him.

What happened to @Benjamin_Nevis ?

Paranoia? Are you disputing that he got the date wrong?

It's amusing to watch posters rush to the defence of the bank, blindly believe their spin. Banks are known to be paragons of virtue, right enough Plenty existing Coutts customers are saying the threshold claim is nonsense, and as time goes on it becomes more and more clear that this is indeed a political decision. This one ain't over. Expect plenty twists and turns.