The SNPs blunders are ridiculously huge. Wouldn’t shock me to see them almost completely wiped out next year
I am 100% neutral to Scottish politics and have no strong feelings towards anyone, but Nicola’s departure left a leadership gap the size of a planet. It’s scary to think that these three are the best SNP has to offer now
yet if you go to r/scotland there is no doubt they all want to leave
Honestly not massively keen on saying this but a fall in SNP votes would likely be great for Labour, losing Scotland to the SNP was the worst thing that ever happened to the party.
SNP have shafted tenants and just been generally shit administrators meanwhile labour is purging the members who have actually helped us tenants. Awesome to be back to mainstream politics being a useless endeavour./s
The working people on this country are left wing from what i can tell by doing streets stalls for years but aren’t represented by any parties. We just have to pick between different flavours of Thatcherism and if Scotland will be sold off to the pals of Wall St or the ECB. The SNP see marginal more approval but generally all the mainstream parties are seen as out of touch
The bright spark is that the left has spent its wilderness years building good structures away from Broad Church (restrained) parties that is flourishing
By far the most cynical thatcherites are both sides of the independence debate who just want their respective pals to get to sell-off Scotland
The tories will be panicking, the SNP were their greatest ally in winning previous elections.
With all the candidates being uninspiring by comparison, you cannot blame people for at least thinking of looking elsewhere. The SNP will still dominate politics in Scotland for a few years but they are going to need to really get their act together and find a way to reignite the party after losing Sturgeon.
Were people expecting it not to fall?
If you have a massive surge and take over the country the only way certainly isn’t upwards? It is always going down, is it going relevantly down? Probably not, not until there is any viable alternative, i.e. The Tories gone, and Labour not just being New Labour centre rightish.
The immediate leap to anti gay / anti trans politics is evident. It’s over. People don’t want that bigotry.
The electorate seems to have little faith in any of the 3 leadership candidates.
Nobody worth voting for. Across the UK. I’ll be voting for independents.
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They were denying this just a few weeks ago before they were pressured to release their party membership data as part of the leadership election:
https://twitter.com/ScotNational/status/1625162766360186880?s=20
The SNPs blunders are ridiculously huge. Wouldn’t shock me to see them almost completely wiped out next year
I am 100% neutral to Scottish politics and have no strong feelings towards anyone, but Nicola’s departure left a leadership gap the size of a planet. It’s scary to think that these three are the best SNP has to offer now
yet if you go to r/scotland there is no doubt they all want to leave
Honestly not massively keen on saying this but a fall in SNP votes would likely be great for Labour, losing Scotland to the SNP was the worst thing that ever happened to the party.
SNP have shafted tenants and just been generally shit administrators meanwhile labour is purging the members who have actually helped us tenants. Awesome to be back to mainstream politics being a useless endeavour./s
The working people on this country are left wing from what i can tell by doing streets stalls for years but aren’t represented by any parties. We just have to pick between different flavours of Thatcherism and if Scotland will be sold off to the pals of Wall St or the ECB. The SNP see marginal more approval but generally all the mainstream parties are seen as out of touch
The bright spark is that the left has spent its wilderness years building good structures away from Broad Church (restrained) parties that is flourishing
By far the most cynical thatcherites are both sides of the independence debate who just want their respective pals to get to sell-off Scotland
The tories will be panicking, the SNP were their greatest ally in winning previous elections.
With all the candidates being uninspiring by comparison, you cannot blame people for at least thinking of looking elsewhere. The SNP will still dominate politics in Scotland for a few years but they are going to need to really get their act together and find a way to reignite the party after losing Sturgeon.
Were people expecting it not to fall?
If you have a massive surge and take over the country the only way certainly isn’t upwards? It is always going down, is it going relevantly down? Probably not, not until there is any viable alternative, i.e. The Tories gone, and Labour not just being New Labour centre rightish.
The immediate leap to anti gay / anti trans politics is evident. It’s over. People don’t want that bigotry.
The electorate seems to have little faith in any of the 3 leadership candidates.
Nobody worth voting for. Across the UK. I’ll be voting for independents.