Still voting for them. The alternatives don’t offer anything much more than the same old union = brexit brand.
It’s his job to be optimistic, in public at least.
So here’s the thing, me and my wife are still going to do both votes SNP.
Hear me out before you judge.
We do not vote SNP for the politicians, we do not vote SNP for the policies. We vote SNP for the *cause.*
When independence is achieved the SNP will be kicked out and replaced with the government that Scotland elects. An opportunity that we have never had, an opportunity we owe it to our kids and grandkids to deliver for them.
It doesn’t matter if some ex-SNP politicians get arrested or commit crimes, in an independent Scotland these people will be held democratically accountable to the people of Scotland. Any crimes committed by the SNP now are done as Scotland is in the Union, it is the Union enabling this by forcing Scots to vote for only one party.
If you want a better, less corrupt Scotland with higher quality politicians then you need to support Independence and at this moment in time it means biting the bullet and voting SNP.
>“Our target is the same as we’ve had in many elections. We want to win the general election in Scotland. Our case would be set back if we don’t win the election in Scotland. We will dedicate our resources and brains to doing that”.
This feels like a rather weaselly paragraph – what does “winning the election” actually mean? Does it mean not losing seats overall, getting a majority of seats, getting more seats than anyone else, not losing too many seats, something else entirely? It’s an important question, because different groups will have very different measures of success. For example if a party got 15 seats – Labour and particularly the SNP would probably be very disappointed with such a result, but the Greens/Lib Dems/Tories would bite your hand off for 15 seats.
This is an important thing to keep an eye on after the election, especially if certain parties will look to advance certain policies on the back of whatever their definition of “winning” actually means.
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Still voting for them. The alternatives don’t offer anything much more than the same old union = brexit brand.
It’s his job to be optimistic, in public at least.
So here’s the thing, me and my wife are still going to do both votes SNP.
Hear me out before you judge.
We do not vote SNP for the politicians, we do not vote SNP for the policies. We vote SNP for the *cause.*
When independence is achieved the SNP will be kicked out and replaced with the government that Scotland elects. An opportunity that we have never had, an opportunity we owe it to our kids and grandkids to deliver for them.
It doesn’t matter if some ex-SNP politicians get arrested or commit crimes, in an independent Scotland these people will be held democratically accountable to the people of Scotland. Any crimes committed by the SNP now are done as Scotland is in the Union, it is the Union enabling this by forcing Scots to vote for only one party.
If you want a better, less corrupt Scotland with higher quality politicians then you need to support Independence and at this moment in time it means biting the bullet and voting SNP.
>“Our target is the same as we’ve had in many elections. We want to win the general election in Scotland. Our case would be set back if we don’t win the election in Scotland. We will dedicate our resources and brains to doing that”.
This feels like a rather weaselly paragraph – what does “winning the election” actually mean? Does it mean not losing seats overall, getting a majority of seats, getting more seats than anyone else, not losing too many seats, something else entirely? It’s an important question, because different groups will have very different measures of success. For example if a party got 15 seats – Labour and particularly the SNP would probably be very disappointed with such a result, but the Greens/Lib Dems/Tories would bite your hand off for 15 seats.
This is an important thing to keep an eye on after the election, especially if certain parties will look to advance certain policies on the back of whatever their definition of “winning” actually means.