Lordofthewing Posted April 21, 2015 Share Posted April 21, 2015 Hopefully the Greens win at least one seat in every region which would give them a minimum of eight MSPs. There will obviously be no Margo MacDonald on the list in the Lothians next year sadly so that should go to either the SNP or Greens. I'm seriously considering voting Green next year, as the Scottish party comes across as far more capable and sensible than their England and Wales counterparts, and I also get the impression they'd do a good job at a local level, with SNP the bigger and better voice at Westminster. No concrete reasons for any of this, just a feeling at the moment. I'll obviously do a bit of proper research after the GE, where hopefully my vote for SNP will contribute to howking out the long-standing Labour candidate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Och aye the noo Posted April 21, 2015 Share Posted April 21, 2015 I'm seriously considering voting Green next year, as the Scottish party comes across as far more capable and sensible than their England and Wales counterparts, and I also get the impression they'd do a good job at a local level, with SNP the bigger and better voice at Westminster. No concrete reasons for any of this, just a feeling at the moment. I'll obviously do a bit of proper research after the GE, where hopefully my vote for SNP will contribute to howking out the long-standing Labour candidate. If it's just a feeling then don't worry, the doc can give you a pill for that, and the prescription will be free. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elixir Posted April 21, 2015 Share Posted April 21, 2015 catastrofuck Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pandarilla Posted April 21, 2015 Share Posted April 21, 2015 If it's just a feeling then don't worry, the doc can give you a pill for that, and the prescription will be free. You're a proper banter merchant eh? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vikingTON Posted May 9, 2015 Share Posted May 9, 2015 Time to finish the job of turning Scottish Labour into an irrelevant rump outfit; 'doing a Sevco', in other words. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FuzzyAffro Posted May 9, 2015 Share Posted May 9, 2015 Time to finish the job of turning Scottish Labour into an irrelevant rump outfit; 'doing a Sevco', in other words. Totally, the task now is to make sure Labour take an absolute hammering at every single election, starting with Holyrood next year which is the most important. But every election, European, Council everything. Will never forgive Labour and want to keep kicking them till they're long past dead. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
~~~ Posted May 9, 2015 Share Posted May 9, 2015 The List system will probably help put the final nail in the coffin Labour Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FuzzyAffro Posted May 9, 2015 Share Posted May 9, 2015 Lets hope so, I will be voting SNP/Green next year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sparky88 Posted May 9, 2015 Share Posted May 9, 2015 Only way it would happen is if they made a pact and the SNP didnt stand on the list. It would probably cost the SNP 15-20 seats but the Green Party could possibly win 40 of their own from the listthe SNP are ideologically completely different from the greens, I don't know why the greens would be interested Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elixir Posted May 9, 2015 Share Posted May 9, 2015 A result like last night again in twelve months and the SNP will get a majority without needing a single list vote. Fucking glorious. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doulikefish Posted May 9, 2015 Share Posted May 9, 2015 Planning starts now,get out and help if you can Snp/Greens Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pandarilla Posted May 9, 2015 Share Posted May 9, 2015 Lets hope so, I will be voting SNP/Green next year. Me too. And hopefully thousands of fellow SNP voters will join us. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Bairn Posted May 9, 2015 Share Posted May 9, 2015 Ridiculously early Bairn forecast SNP: 77 Labour: 25 Tories: 15 Greens: 9 Liberal Democrats: 3 SNP majority of 25 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crùbag Posted May 9, 2015 Share Posted May 9, 2015 Ridiculously early Bairn forecast SNP: 77 Labour: 25 Tories: 15 Greens: 9 Liberal Democrats: 3 SNP majority of 25 That's a healthy pro-indy majority. We should stick to the no referendum talk and just declare UDI. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RabidAl Posted May 10, 2015 Share Posted May 10, 2015 I'm seriously considering voting Green next year, as the Scottish party comes across as far more capable and sensible than their England and Wales counterparts, and I also get the impression they'd do a good job at a local level, with SNP the bigger and better voice at Westminster. No concrete reasons for any of this, just a feeling at the moment. I'll obviously do a bit of proper research after the GE, where hopefully my vote for SNP will contribute to howking out the long-standing Labour candidate. Yeah me too, and for similar reasons. I'd be happy with a permanent wedge of 50+ SNP MPs at Westminster from now on, gradually drawing out more powers for Holyrood as time goes by. I'm content that Scotland isn't a 'one party state' because of the diversity that Holyrood's Additional Member System delivers, which enables me to vote for the likes of the Green party with a realistic chance of them getting seats in parliament. Holyrood is where Scottish Labour, etc should focus their efforts going forward because it will be an increasingly strong parliament that they can have more hope of influencing, because they don't have much of a way back at Westminster with the SNP likely to stand for Scotland's interests better than they ever could, and also because Evel is likely to further diminish any influence that Scottish MPs do have. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Bairn Posted May 12, 2015 Share Posted May 12, 2015 If this election was tomorrow the SNP would win nearly all of the 73 FPTP seats. Orkney likely stays LD (Shetland going SNP) Tories would have a sniff at winning either Dumfriesshire or Ettrick, Roxborough & Berwickshire Either way, SNP will have a full majority without having to worry about the list This creates an interesting problem for the 50% of people that vote SNP now They could bloc vote SNP in hope of returning an extra 8 seats through the list, aiming to mimic what happened in the North East region in 2011 where the SNP vote is so strong that they win all the constituencies and still pick up a list vote, or they could transfer almost completely to the Green party, leave the SNP almost voteless on the list and pick up 32 seats for the Greens Could be looking at the Greens as the second largest party and some 100/129 MSPs either SNP or Green Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kyle Posted May 12, 2015 Share Posted May 12, 2015 I'll certainly be lending the greens my support on the list. I live in Glasgow, so I very much doubt it'll anything other than SNP in the constituencies anyway, and The Greens horrendously under-represented at Holyrood at the moment. SNP are almost guaranteed to be in power after 2016 anyway. Even if they fail to get a majority, you'd have to think the Greens will push them over the line. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Bairn Posted May 12, 2015 Share Posted May 12, 2015 I'll certainly be lending the greens my support on the list. I live in Glasgow, so I very much doubt it'll anything other than SNP in the constituencies anyway, and The Greens horrendously under-represented at Holyrood at the moment. SNP are almost guaranteed to be in power after 2016 anyway. Even if they fail to get a majority, you'd have to think the Greens will push them over the line. Barring a major gaffe I don't see any way the SNP won't have a majority. More than half of the seats are elected using FPTP on boundaries very similar to the general election. Also, Edinburgh South is already an SNP seat at Holyrood, so the only seats in Scotland that will be electing from a position of not having an SNP incumbent at either parliament are Dumfriesshire (Tory WM seat, Labour HR seat), Orkney and Shetland (Two separate seats at HR, and there are rumours that Shetland voted SNP) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
~~~ Posted May 12, 2015 Share Posted May 12, 2015 Patrick Harvie has already started campaigning for next year Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sooky Posted May 12, 2015 Share Posted May 12, 2015 I'll more than likely go SNP/Tory next year. EDIT: Actually, no. I'm in Angus and not Dundee for Scottish Parliament so I'll probably go Tory/Tory. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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