The 2021 election and a mandate for Indyref2.

[git-intae-thum]

I am very critical of the current leadership of the SNP. In my opinion there has been lots of show, but not a lot of substance since 2015. 

However, the SNP continues to be the only party capable of giving us a shot at a referendum.......and this election may be the only chance we get at taking that shot for a long long time.

Fair enough if folk have other agendas and are no really that bothered about it....but if your priority is independence, then the only sensible vote is the SNP candidate on the constituency ballot and SNP or other pro indy party on the list (this depending on where you live).

 

[SANTAN]

2 hours ago, John Lambies Doos said:

Spoiling ballots is cretinous behaviour

Would you mind if I did so? 

[SANTAN]

Is it illegal to sell your vote? 

[NotThePars]

31 minutes ago, jakedee said:

35 minutes ago, NotThePars said:

I do find it acceptable, yes, given it's the baseline expectation of a political party in an election. 

That's a fair enough position to take,but don't take the huff when Westminster continues to deny a referendum because the " numbers don't justify it".

I'm not going to take the huff. Expecting the Tories to take notice of vote share is literal cope.

[oneteaminglasgow]

Aye, the SNP could receive 100% of the vote, and Douglas Ross would still be on the BBC every other day saying ‘Scotland doesn’t want another divisive referendum’

[jakedee]

I'm not going to take the huff. Expecting the Tories to take notice of vote share is literal cope.

They'll take even less notice if pro independence parties only poll 40% (even with a majority of MSP's)of the vote because some who back independence decide to not bother, or spoil their ballot paper.

[git-intae-thum]

24 minutes ago, jakedee said:

53 minutes ago, NotThePars said:

I'm not going to take the huff. Expecting the Tories to take notice of vote share is literal cope.

They'll take even less notice if pro independence parties only poll 40% (even with a majority of MSP's)of the vote because some who back independence decide to not bother, or spoil their ballot paper.

This.

[invergowrie arab]

I'll be voting for big Joe Fitzpatrick because he lost his job recently and I feel he could be doing with a boost.

SNP on the list too as the Greens are nowhere near it in oil rich NE Scotland 

[BucksburnDandy]

Moved last year to Inverness and Nairn from Aberdeen Donside. Like Yoda, despite being a bit shit, Fergus Ewing will get my constituency vote. My list vote would normally go Green but I read it may be more useful to go SNP. If so then I will go SNP

[SandyCromarty]

14 hours ago, Stormzy said:

Is it illegal to sell your vote? 

The Scottish Nobility, that parcel o rogues', did so for land and gold when they betrayed Scotland in the 1707 Union.

[SANTAN]

47 minutes ago, SandyCromarty said:

The Scottish Nobility, that parcel o rogues', did so for land and gold when they betrayed Scotland in the 1707 Union.

You're lucky we struck a deal with such inefficient colonisers. 

[Dawson Park Boy]

1 hour ago, SandyCromarty said:

The Scottish Nobility, that parcel o rogues', did so for land and gold when they betrayed Scotland in the 1707 Union.

Maybe that was because we were bankrupt after the Darien projec?

[TheScarf]

SNP/Greens for this cat.

[jakedee]

Maybe that was because we were bankrupt after the Darien projec?

"We" weren't bankrupt.

[G51]

The Union was a marriage of convenience at the time. It allowed Scotland (not just the nobles) to get rich from the profits of Empire, and it gave the English a ton of soldiers to secure the future expansion of the Empire, which we also benefitted from. In the near future, it would also provide us with the ability to fight wars against other major powers.

But those days are over. The West is transitioning to an era where we no longer fight enormous wars on our own turf - we fight through proxy wars in far-off lands, intelligence services and cyber security now. Can anyone realistically ever see a scenario in their lifetime where WWIII occurs? I can’t.

So now that security is no longer the primary benefit, it’s worth asking what do we value most. Personally, I value devolving as much power as possible to as many areas as possible. The value of the people’s participation in politics should never be underestimated.

Which is why independence must only be the start, and not the end, of a process which redefines how decisions are made in Scotland.

[Dawson Park Boy]

19 minutes ago, jakedee said:

1 hour ago, Dawson Park Boy said:

Maybe that was because we were bankrupt after the Darien projec?

"We" weren't bankrupt.

Okay, maybe a little extreme, but as I recall, Scotland used up around 20% of its financial reserves which were already in a poor state.

 

[jakedee]

Okay, maybe a little extreme, but as I recall, Scotland used up around 20% of its financial reserves which were already in a poor state.
 

https://www.scotland.org.uk/history/act-union

"Bought and sold" as one scholar said.

[Highland Capital]

It's my understanding that the SNP are going to be including the constituency candidates on the list as well this time.  They didn't do it last time.

[SandyCromarty]

2 hours ago, Stormzy said:

You're lucky we struck a deal with such inefficient colonisers. 

Lucky? 

A deal that ended up years later where here in the Highlands men women and children were forced out of their homes and onto boats and shipped off to the Carolinas to make way for sheep and dishonest land grabbing, conditions were so bad on these voyages that many children died.

[SANTAN]

9 minutes ago, SandyCromarty said:

Lucky? 

A deal that ended up years later where here in the Highlands men women and children were forced out of their homes and onto boats and shipped off to the Carolinas to make way for sheep and dishonest land grabbing, conditions were so bad on these voyages that many children died.

You're an utter walloper.