Scottish Parliamentary Elections May 2021

[doulikefish]

Lex and hb come crawling out of the woodwork 

[Jim McLean's Ghost]

Just now, Dawson Park Boy said:

Agreed.

Im trying to find a solution.

Its the same with SNP voters. They are a diverse group but with one thing in common.

At least with the SNP voting there isn't the cognitive dissonance where they claim to be Labour voters but willingly vote Tory out of anti-SNP brain rot.

[betting competition]

I hope the SNP voters will learn next time that if they have 48% in the vote then the list vote they have to vote for another pro independence party. Some of us did this time but not enough but at least the Greens have increased their seats. 

Edited May 8, 2021 by betting competition

[Antlion]

11 minutes ago, speckled tangerine said:

Willie Rennie will be relieved that his weekly kicking from Sturgeon is a less frequent ordeal.

 

[Anonapersona]

2 minutes ago, Dawson Park Boy said:

Agreed.

Im trying to find a solution.

Its the same with SNP voters. They are a diverse group but with one thing in common.

I wouldn't vote SNP if they had tory policies.

See the difference?

[Tartan Dave]

I’ve really enjoyed the BBC Scotland coverage, however, I’d really enjoy it if there prediction was wrong as they are so confident on it

[Jim McLean's Ghost]

I mean if you are a Unionist what real difference does it make between SNP majority or SNP supported by the Greens?

[dirty dingus]

1 minute ago, Baptiste Bourgeois said:

I'd like to a research paper written on the proportional relationship between the tuechtar/bumpkin inflections in someone's accent and likelyhood of voting Conservative 

I find most tory voting places contain shops selling fly rods, tattersall shirts and elephant cords.

[Jim McLean's Ghost]

1 minute ago, betting competition said:

I hope the SNP voters will learn this time that if they have 48% in the vote then the list vote they have to vote for another pro independence party. Some of us did this time but not enough but at least the Greens have increased their vote. 

I am sure there are a few lefties in the SNP who give their vote to the Greens and are happy with that pro-independence coalition. Why does there need to be another party?

[John Lambies Doos]

Lex and hb come crawling out of the woodwork 

To pass their congrats on for an increased pro independence parliament?

[Jim McLean's Ghost]

Ok hear me out.

SNP get 64 and Willie Rennie as Presiding Officer.

Edited May 8, 2021 by Jim McLean's Ghost

[betting competition]

As I voted the Greens on the list vote I do hope my vote has helped stop the Lid dems getting a seat in North Scotland. 

Edited May 8, 2021 by betting competition

[Monkey Tennis]

1 hour ago, Cairn Terrier said:

Disappointed, is an understatement with the Galloway result.

It's weird.

There have been some boundary changes, but when Scottish Nationalism was much more of a minority sport, the SNP actually had some success there.  In October 1974, 11 SNP MPs were elected, but Galloway provided one of them.  In 1997, only 6 SNP MPs were returned, but one of them came from Galloway and Upper Nithsdale.

Now when the SNP is sweeping all before them across the country, they lose out in Galloway.  It's very frustrating.

[Ludo*1]

John Curtice saying the most SNP can get is 64.

[GordonS]

9 minutes ago, MP_MFC said:

10 minutes ago, Mark Connolly said:

They've been saying since yesterday that the two constituency wins in the south will hump them on the list.

I thought they still expected 1 comfortably as if not then it means they've actually made a net loss in the area which can't be right?

Polling suggested the SNP's list vote would be down due to some share going to Green and Alba.

If the media were remotely decent at their job, had caught up with AMS instead of still treating it as some jolly complex shenanigans, they'd have told us the list seats in the South with a fair amount of confidence already.

5 minutes ago, Anonapersona said:

I wouldn't vote SNP if they had tory policies.

See the difference?

Tories don't understand this because they have no principles beyond what they perceive to be good for them and their family. They believe that, deep down, everyone else does the same and refuse to accept that many, if not most, vote to improve the lives of people who have less even if it's at their own expense.

That's why I understand Tories voting tactically, but Labour are supposed to stand up for the poor.

[wirez]

2 minutes ago, Jim McLean's Ghost said:

Ok hear me out.

SNP get 64 and Willie Rennie as Presiding Officer.

Tbf he has put in the practice and he clearly loves a big chair.

[jakedee]

How does someone who grew up voting Labour during the "Thatcher years". Watching the utter carnage inflicted on this Country, by that Govt. and Tory Govt's since, hate the idea of Scotland being a normal independent country so much, that they could vote Tory?

[Guest TheJTS98]

13 minutes ago, Dawson Park Boy said:

Agreed.

Im trying to find a solution.

Its the same with SNP voters. They are a diverse group but with one thing in common.

There is no solution.

The bottom line is that around half of the population are in favour of a huge constitutional change. Asking for a 'normal' style of politics is basically asking half the population to drop that demand. It's not going to happen.

Politics in Scotland becomes normal when either independence happens or the UK somehow becomes well-run enough for people to buy into it. I know which of those I think is more likely.

What we have just now is not a viable situation for the continuity of the status quo. You can't just expect to limp on when half the population are in favour of big change and the long term direction of travel is pro-change.

[Florentine_Pogen]

John Curtice saying the most SNP can get is 64.

You just know that when Curtice gets home tonight, he'll be donning a gimp suit and will be pegged senseless by his Miss Trunchbull lookalike wife.

[Monkey Tennis]

Why have the BBC only mentioned the key Pentlands result as an afterthought?