The Scottish Politics thread

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west didsblue said:
Kenny MacAskill, Neale Hanvey and Jim Eadie.
I reckon they’ve peaked, and those three will desperately be looking for an excuse to switch back!
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He's got a fair few more than just them three, quicker than I'd like seeing. One or two with a half decent profile and presence. The councillor level isn't surprising, they maybe see a shortcut to a career seat. And some of the 'personality' ones that have fallen out with the party probably see an escape route. But still, he has got more folk than I'd have imagined.

But the polls tell more of a predictable story though. I said at the start, doubt he'd win many if any seats, still seems to be that way.
 
Magicpole said:
There are constituencies where it is better to use yiur second vote for the Greens. SNP in those areas among gain any advantage and it is obviously a no brainer for us to vote another pro Indy party. There is a map thst shows where to do this. The borders, West of Scotland and Edinburgh. The rest use both to SNP.
As for Salmond, he just wants back into the limelight. His ego knows no bounds, just like his hands where attractive younger women are concerned. I was surprised to see so many from the party fled to his banner. People are trying to make this out as problematic. On the contrary, it's good. Flushing out fifth columnists now mean they are defeated and sidelined. Amateurs.
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You got a link to these maps? Asking for a friend
 

Thanks, interesting. Still not entirely sure how they work that out. Broadly seems to correlate to the 2016 results for the regional votes. But how they conclude who had what advantage where maybe a bit complex for me. Still, interesting to see, cheers.
 
Coatigan said:
Thanks, interesting. Still not entirely sure how they work that out. Broadly seems to correlate to the 2016 results for the regional votes. But how they conclude who had what advantage where maybe a bit complex for me. Still, interesting to see, cheers.
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When you win all the constituency seats you coukd have 250,000 2nd votes and get no list MSP'S. The parliament was set up to deliberately prevent an outright majority as this was deemed a worry for Westminster. So, if we want to use our 2nd vote and not waste it, we get a party who are pro Indy, it's better to give them it. The Greens are the favourite of most SNP for that. Salmond's ego has created his Alba Party hoping to get all the SNP 2nd votes and form a Supermajority. He can go fuck himself. I'm hoping the Greens get a substantial rise to the cost of the Tories and their pals Labour.
 
Magicpole said:
When you win all the constituency seats you coukd have 250,000 2nd votes and get no list MSP'S. The parliament was set up to deliberately prevent an outright majority as this was deemed a worry for Westminster. So, if we want to use our 2nd vote and not waste it, we get a party who are pro Indy, it's better to give them it. The Greens are the favourite of most SNP for that. Salmond's ego has created his Alba Party hoping to get all the SNP 2nd votes and form a Supermajority. He can go fuck himself. I'm hoping the Greens get a substantial rise to the cost of the Tories and their pals Labour.
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I see. I knew how the 2 vote system worked and the reginonal list, but didn't appreciate there was a saturation point at which the second voted become meaningless. Kinda defeats the purpose of proportional representation a bit imo. I.e if each region returns 7 MSPs, why is it inconceivable that if one region had the largest number of constituency seats by a party, they also can't return a bulk of list MSPs for that party. It is what it is though, a hybrid mix.

Agree, the Greens are a great contribution to parliament and communities, with solid policies and strategies. Salmond's party are just a personality driven independence party.
 
Coatigan said:
I see. I knew how the 2 vote system worked and the reginonal list, but didn't appreciate there was a saturation point at which the second voted become meaningless. Kinda defeats the purpose of proportional representation a bit imo. I.e if each region returns 7 MSPs, why is it inconceivable that if one region had the largest number of constituency seats by a party, they also can't return a bulk of list MSPs for that party. It is what it is though, a hybrid mix.

Agree, the Greens are a great contribution to parliament and communities, with solid policies and strategies. Salmond's party are just a personality driven independence party.
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Salmonds party are a personality driven ego party. Poll suggesting they will get fucked over. Unionists hate him and so do the majority of SNP after his part in the unionist coup d'etat against Sturgeon. He has a few elected SNP cunts who have jumped ship, I'm hoping they all miss and end up drowning in obscurity.

I like Harvey and the Greens and with them having more power, albeit through SNP voters they will keep up the pressure to meet and exceed climate change policies.
 
Magicpole said:
Salmonds party are a personality driven ego party. Poll suggesting they will get fucked over. Unionists hate him and so do the majority of SNP after his part in the unionist coup d'etat against Sturgeon. He has a few elected SNP cunts who have jumped ship, I'm hoping they all miss and end up drowning in obscurity.

I like Harvey and the Greens and with them having more power, albeit through SNP voters they will keep up the pressure to meet and exceed climate change policies.
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Yep. Although the latest poll (in the last day or two) claimed Salmond would win 6 seats. The Greens 8, and SNP 65. The dreaded so called supermajority. If that poll is to be believed. Seems a pretty big jump from the poll just a few days ago saying he'd win none.
 
Coatigan said:
Yep. Although the latest poll (in the last day or two) claimed Salmond would win 6 seats. The Greens 8, and SNP 65. The dreaded so called supermajority. If that poll is to be believed. Seems a pretty big jump from the poll just a few days ago saying he'd win none.
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More polls than pale skin up here. The only poll that matters is a month away. He m7ght get a few, I hope they get fuck all but derision and laughed at. But that is just my vindictive, vengeful traits which appear when I feel cunts are taking the ****.
 
Magicpole said:
More polls than pale skin up here. The only poll that matters is a month away. He m7ght get a few, I hope they get fuck all but derision and laughed at. But that is just my vindictive, vengeful traits which appear when I feel cunts are taking the ****.
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I don't know why you can't all just play nicely. There doesn't appear to be any real policy divide beyond the weird personal feud of the two leaders.
 
Mazzarelli's Swiss Cheese said:
I don't know why you can't all just play nicely. There doesn't appear to be any real policy divide beyond the weird personal feud of the two leaders.
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It's all about integrity, he abused women because of his position. Then he played along to a witchunt he hoped would depose her and he would step in. I detest men who do that to women as a rule. So, voting for them comes a long way behind kicking their fucking head in. I'm feeling even more hatred today, as I just heard this morning my cousin was murdered yesterday by her partner. As I speak he hasn't been caught and the cops are looking for him, as well as other people. He better hope the cops get him first.
 
Magicpole said:
It's all about integrity, he abused women because of his position. Then he played along to a witchunt he hoped would depose her and he would step in. I detest men who do that to women as a rule. So, voting for them comes a long way behind kicking their fucking head in. I'm feeling even more hatred today, as I just heard this morning my cousin was murdered yesterday by her partner. As I speak he hasn't been caught and the cops are looking for him, as well as other people. He better hope the cops get him first.
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Sorry to hear that MP, thought you sounded unusually riled up and that explains it - hope they catch the ****, or he freezes to death.
 
The wrong ink lol - this fucking Johnson bot and Bailey in the London mayoral election are going to be such an embarrassment

 
bluethrunthru said:
The wrong ink lol - this fucking Johnson bot and Bailey in the London mayoral election are going to be such an embarrassment

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This utter prick is the latest Tory Leader in Scotland. He's thst bad that he has been sidelined from leading their Indy Bad, SNP Bad, campaign. Ruth the Mooth, soon to head to the Lords as a reward for losing every election and routinely getting handed her arse from Sturgeon is front and all of the centre. There's also a cracking video, where he is reading comments on his page. He scrolls and scrolls by comment after comment calling him a bellend and other true stuff. He is bereft of any ability, bar making an absolute **** of himself. He's tops at that, some would say, He's the most. Bless.
 
Got the Tory promotional material through, man they really aren't even bothering offering anything at all. Vote for us, even if just this one time (which is actually the fourth time making such a claim) to stop another referendum. Don't vote labour or lib dem, they can't, we maybe might.

Thats literally all. Nothing on anything else at all.
 
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