The New Fat Scotland 'Thanks for all the Fish' Thread.

TrickyTree83

Just checked the vote share.

IndyRef2 is over before it even began.

37.1% of the vote supported pro-indy parties, well below 40%, trying to get circa 50%/60% you might as well be trying to walk to the moon.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/election/2017/results/scotland

molerat

Now getting into "it was all down to the resident incomers" that Robertson was ousted.

I refer you to my previous post http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showpost.php?p=72611463&postcount=11196

I feel sorry for the owner of a local news social media site. His fingers can't work quick enough deleting inflammatory / racist / swearing posts.

kelpie35

I feel sorry for the owner of a local news social media site. His fingers can't work quick enough deleting inflammatory / racist / swearing posts.

That is how the majority of SNP voter react.

They "think" they speak for the whole of Scotland but they are so, so wrong. We have shown them we mean business now and they may as well curly up in their wee corner and keep stum

Rinoa

It was almost worth the tory humiliation to see Salmond and Robertson lose their seats.

Well done Scotland.

TrickyTree83

No comment nationalists?

molerat

TrickyTree83 wrote: »

No comment nationalists?

I was going to mention that it was a bit quiet in here 2 hours ago :rotfl:

Listening to some of the interviews on TV "winning the majority of seats means that indyref2 is still firmly on the table" :rotfl:

Some of the comments on social media :
schools are going to close (devolved), your pensions are lost, free school meals going (devolved), our new English Tory MP is going to do nothing for farming (as a real local farming lad who went to the SAC)
Just goes to show the level of SNP supporters.

TrickyTree83

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/72451394#Comment_72451394

24-04-2017

TrickyTree83 wrote: »

Given where they are currently and FPTP I expect to see them lose close to 20 seats.

TrickyTree83

molerat wrote: »

I was going to mention that it was a bit quiet in here 2 hours ago :rotfl:

Listening to some of the interviews on TV "winning the majority of seats means that indyref2 is still firmly on the table" :rotfl:

There is no mandate. Scotland clearly prefers the union to independence based on the vote share statistics, and not by a statistical anomaly either, Scotland chose unionist parties over indy parties by 25.8% on a 66.4% turnout. That's a kicking for indy dreamers.

The anomaly appears to be the composition of Holyrood and policies that flow from it.

stator

YAY. Hopefully the SNP will have a long hard look at themselves and become a more sensible party. Their 'blame the English' tactics were never going to last long term.

Arklight

Had a look at some of the nationalist sites and a lot of them seem to think that there will still be another independence referendum in no more than two or three years, and that they'll win it.

After Brexit I was pro Scottish independence and I thought Sturgeon was a decent principled politician. I still do, but Scottish Independence is dead in the water now, for a very long time. If you are middle aged, probably for your lifetime.

How is Sturgeon going to manage the SNP being the nationalist party that's no longer offering nationalism, as surely she must, because if promising indyref 2 is losing multiple seats to the Tories then a handbrake turn can't come soon enough.