Scottish Parliamentary Elections May 2021

[Salt n Vinegar]

Feck

[jamamafegan]

Balls, that’s annoying.

[AFCDannyFTH]

Aberdeenshire West letting the team down again.

[smpar]

Lib Dems 13% down in Aberdeenshire West. Christ.

[John Lambies Doos]

Extra seat on list now...65 still very much on

[doulikefish]

1 minute ago, MP_MFC said:

The Lib Dems really are a shambles of a party.

44 deposits lost 

[Double Jack D]

Thatll be that then.

Lib dem c***s

[Melanius Mullarkey]

Just shut the fucking Lib Dem’s down ffs. What a waste of everybody’s time.

[GNU_Linux]

My take is Lib Dems are tories with west end tastes & interests.

[betting competition]

bbc predicting that SNP will lose Edinburgh Pentlands?

Edited May 8, 2021 by betting competition

[Monkey Tennis]

8 minutes ago, Lex said:

 

Always makes me smile. You’ll hear plenty nationalists say ‘I don’t agree with the SNP on xyz but they’re the best vehicle to independence so I’ll be voting for them’. Unionists do similar and it’s all traitors, quislings etc etc.
You’re right the actual issues don’t matter and they haven’t for a long time. Hard to imagine a situation in the foreseeable future when a Scottish election is decided on anything that isn’t constitutional matters. It’s shite but I can’t see any way of changing it.

 

Separation would change it.

[MP_MFC]

BBC projecting

63 SNP
31 tory
22 labour
9 green
4 lib dem

[GordonS]

YASSSSS PENTLANDS!!!!

[SweeperDee]

Oh you fucker.

[DeeTillEhDeh]

Pentlands held.

But Tores hold Aberdeenshire West.

Down to the list then.

[GordonS]

9 minutes ago, Lex said:

 

Always makes me smile. You’ll hear plenty nationalists say ‘I don’t agree with the SNP on xyz but they’re the best vehicle to independence so I’ll be voting for them’. Unionists do similar and it’s all traitors, quislings etc etc.
You’re right the actual issues don’t matter and they haven’t for a long time. Hard to imagine a situation in the foreseeable future when a Scottish election is decided on anything that isn’t constitutional matters. It’s shite but I can’t see any way of changing it.

 

I don't think that's what people are doing, or at least, it's not what I'm doing. I can understand voters tactically switching between Labour and Lib Dem, or from Tory to those parties. But anyone who switches from Lib Dem or Labour to the Tories is saying they care more about flegs than social justice. That's pretty abhorrent IMO.

[Dawson Park Boy]

9 minutes ago, Detournement said:

People who vote for the SNP solely for IndyRef2 moaning about Unionists voting tactically is a tad hypocritical.

We are fully Ulsterised now. It's a shite state of affairs but elections are simply constitutional head counts. If there has been a single policy discussed on here in the last 24 hours I must have missed it. 

You’re correct.

Someone like me will always vote tactically for the union whereas others will always vote SNP no matter the policies.

I voted Labour and Conservative despite not liking anything about Labour.

What to do about it?

Maybe if we could agree to have an independence poll every so often, say 10, 15, 20years then in the intervening period people could vote for the party whose policies on the economy, education, health etc., they wanted.

I reckon there must be a solution to this hopeless mess which we are now in.

Years ago the SNP were referred to as ‘tartan tories’ whereas now they tend to be ex Labour.

Anyway, maybe someone’s got some ideas how to bring about more ‘normal’ politics.

[dstuart82]

Many Lib Dem voters showing their true colours this election, what a pathetic, faceless, gutless bunch!!

[GordonS]

Two of the geographically smallest seats in the country still to come in Edinburgh and the same for one in Glasgow. Pure riddie. 

[Moomintroll]

6 minutes ago, andrew21 said:

Just clicked on that Chris McEleny twitter account, noticed a p&b poster  as an Alba member

Do tell.