Saw something that said that reform was twice as popular as greens here.
Quick scan through the list backs that up.
Which is really quite surprising for Scotland.
I am surprised the SNP beat D.Ross in Aberdeenshire North and Moray East though – that appears to be an outlier and Labour were gubbed. I guess Reform voters did indeed turn out.
Delighted to see Cherry get unseated, hopefully that rancid cows fucks off now.
It’s honestly been a surprising night. With only a few seats left to declare, the SNP are going to hit on the low end of predictions even if they win all the remaining seats, and a couple of the seats it did win were likely much tighter than they’d like. Labour seems to have stomped in.
Reform also came out in numbers I didn’t expect.
Voter turnout was so low, considering everyone keeps saying it’s a vote to kick the tories out and it’s a vote of change. Seems like only just over half the pop wanted to kick them out. Uk wide obviously.
Up here the snp loss was a forgone conclusion too, a bit of the same sentiment, get rid of tories but also sick of the snp failures, I voted snp but only because my choice of green wasn’t an option here.
Give the snp time to get their shit together and they’ll most likely win back those seats they had, that or Lib Dems will take over more again.
Worth noting tory won my area, but only by around 1000 seats so they weren’t as safe as they hoped.
Very happy to see the torys and SNP get a doing. The proof that folk are sick of their pish is there to see
It’ll be interesting to see what the parties do now. Like what will the Tories scrape together for their lit now their only thing is gone. No more ‘only we can beat the SNP’ from every candidate, SNP will have to try and gain votes instead of relying on ‘heey we’re the SNP’. Labour will have to work its arse off to keep its gains.
Labour have a great load of expectation on their shoulders now!
Will they just let Scots down as usual?
It’s hard to judge Scottish politics through a westminster election.
First, FPTP massively skews the result. Theres not that much of a swing from SNP to labour I think 1% of the overall vote, but that’s amplified by the electoral system. It’s benefited the SNP previously this time around labour.
Greens in particular don’t always stand in WM elections. People vote green are largely single issue voters: climate change, but both the SNP and labour have relatively strong green policies too.
2026 will be interesting. The SNP need to get their act together if they want to stay in power.
Reform scares the shit out of me. I understand why people are voting for populists as they always do throughout history, but the party itself will do massive harm if they get anywhere near power. Starmer needs to be radical to improve lives of working people and, yes, deal with the immigration issue to stop them in their tracks.
Reform’s breakthrough in Scotland from nothing has been frankly, dramatic. That’s the power of MSM support, plus, I think, being the only party to even vaguely appeal to the groundswell of discontent over the authoritarianism of the pandemic and the general discontent with global technocracy, liberal centrism and the woke left. (Or what Redditors just call “bigoted conspiracy theories.”) The fact they’re led by nasty, working class-hating, unreconstructed Thatcherites gets lost in the kulchur warz bickering.
If Reform now run as a unionist List party in Holyrood (and why wouldn’t they) picking up second votes under D’Hondt/AMS, with all other things being equal for pro-independence parties as they now stand, that could really, really, *really* fuck up the balance of the Scottish parliament.
Once again, great job to the SNP leadership for their rip roaring achievements of, er, nothing and er, taking independence support nowhere, in the most opportune period for the cause since about 1979.
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Saw something that said that reform was twice as popular as greens here.
Quick scan through the list backs that up.
Which is really quite surprising for Scotland.
I am surprised the SNP beat D.Ross in Aberdeenshire North and Moray East though – that appears to be an outlier and Labour were gubbed. I guess Reform voters did indeed turn out.
Delighted to see Cherry get unseated, hopefully that rancid cows fucks off now.
It’s honestly been a surprising night. With only a few seats left to declare, the SNP are going to hit on the low end of predictions even if they win all the remaining seats, and a couple of the seats it did win were likely much tighter than they’d like. Labour seems to have stomped in.
Reform also came out in numbers I didn’t expect.
Voter turnout was so low, considering everyone keeps saying it’s a vote to kick the tories out and it’s a vote of change. Seems like only just over half the pop wanted to kick them out. Uk wide obviously.
Up here the snp loss was a forgone conclusion too, a bit of the same sentiment, get rid of tories but also sick of the snp failures, I voted snp but only because my choice of green wasn’t an option here.
Give the snp time to get their shit together and they’ll most likely win back those seats they had, that or Lib Dems will take over more again.
Worth noting tory won my area, but only by around 1000 seats so they weren’t as safe as they hoped.
Very happy to see the torys and SNP get a doing. The proof that folk are sick of their pish is there to see
It’ll be interesting to see what the parties do now. Like what will the Tories scrape together for their lit now their only thing is gone. No more ‘only we can beat the SNP’ from every candidate, SNP will have to try and gain votes instead of relying on ‘heey we’re the SNP’. Labour will have to work its arse off to keep its gains.
Labour have a great load of expectation on their shoulders now!
Will they just let Scots down as usual?
It’s hard to judge Scottish politics through a westminster election.
First, FPTP massively skews the result. Theres not that much of a swing from SNP to labour I think 1% of the overall vote, but that’s amplified by the electoral system. It’s benefited the SNP previously this time around labour.
Greens in particular don’t always stand in WM elections. People vote green are largely single issue voters: climate change, but both the SNP and labour have relatively strong green policies too.
2026 will be interesting. The SNP need to get their act together if they want to stay in power.
Reform scares the shit out of me. I understand why people are voting for populists as they always do throughout history, but the party itself will do massive harm if they get anywhere near power. Starmer needs to be radical to improve lives of working people and, yes, deal with the immigration issue to stop them in their tracks.
Reform’s breakthrough in Scotland from nothing has been frankly, dramatic. That’s the power of MSM support, plus, I think, being the only party to even vaguely appeal to the groundswell of discontent over the authoritarianism of the pandemic and the general discontent with global technocracy, liberal centrism and the woke left. (Or what Redditors just call “bigoted conspiracy theories.”) The fact they’re led by nasty, working class-hating, unreconstructed Thatcherites gets lost in the kulchur warz bickering.
If Reform now run as a unionist List party in Holyrood (and why wouldn’t they) picking up second votes under D’Hondt/AMS, with all other things being equal for pro-independence parties as they now stand, that could really, really, *really* fuck up the balance of the Scottish parliament.
Once again, great job to the SNP leadership for their rip roaring achievements of, er, nothing and er, taking independence support nowhere, in the most opportune period for the cause since about 1979.