I doubt he’ll bring that much competition to be honest. Especially as he’s only standing in the list vote. He needs more than 5% for his votes to even be counted. All he’s doing is detracting from the greens votes.
I don’t get his supermajority stuff. It’s unlikely that many who are voting SNP 1&2 will vote for him. So that leaves those already splitting their vote - he would be diluting it even further.Apparently he wants to campaign side by side with Sturgeon in the hope of getting a super majority for Independence.....I think he is up to something
This really is a joke. It was only a few weeks ago that he said the Leadership wasn’t fit to bring Independence. But he is fit to do so?Apparently he wants to campaign side by side with Sturgeon in the hope of getting a super majority for Independence.....I think he is up to something
How is it an "unhealthy" majority, when that's what the electorate voted for? As far as I know the Alba party (which few journalists seem to be able to pronounce correctly, nevermind that it's a weird mish mash of gaelic & English) is only running for list seats... therefore it's the Scottish Greens who might lose out, given they are often the only indy party on lists bar the snp, but no one who uses their list vote for Greens would vote Alba. In reality it's the "Alec Salmond Party" and I think most of the electorate are just bored with him now, apart from a few that think the SNP is a one party state or some nonsense (funny no one says this about Labour in Wales, Labour when they ran Scotland for how many decades, or currently the Conservatives in EnglandMaybe he's saying something in the Alba Party launch video by being so dimly lit?
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This just got a lot more interesting. The unhealthy SNP majority finally has some competition.
).Nail on head, he's just scunnered that it wasn't him to be the FM of an independent Scotland, all of his anti-SNP talk just screams "egotistical'.Maybe I’m missing something but it just screams massage Alex Salmonds ego to me.
This really is a joke. It was only a few weeks ago that he said the Leadership wasn’t fit to bring Independence. But he is fit to do so?
This is a man who was accused of crimes against women, bullying, cheating on his wife alongside turning off many women during his term from the SNP and voting for indy. Then he put Nicola through an 8 hour interrogation because he thought that she would "have his back" and she didn't. To have the brass neck of thinking he can stand on stage with her once again, how egotistical. However, watching the q&a it seems there are some men who thing Alec was wronged and defend him, each to their ownApparently he wants to campaign side by side with Sturgeon in the hope of getting a super majority for Independence.....I think he is up to something
.I doubt he’ll be missed. Though it will be interesting what happens with his seat. He can retain it as an Independent but since he’s joined another party surely a bi-election should be called?
This is my thoughts. Those poor women.This is a man who was accused of crimes against women, bullying, cheating on his wife alongside turning off many women during his term from the SNP and voting for indy. Then he put Nicola through an 8 hour interrogation because he thought that she would "have his back" and she didn't. To have the brass neck of thinking he can stand on stage with her once again, how egotistical. However, watching the q&a it seems there are some men who thing Alec was wronged and defend him, each to their own
At least in Scotland we are getting what the majority vote for. Actually it’s still not given almost a million votes in the list vote are discounted because of the process.
god that must be donkey's years now
I don’t think I’ve been alive
ok that’s a bit of a stretch but it’s been a really long time.SNP don’t have a majority. They hold 61/129 seats. 2011 was the only time that a clear runaway majority has happened and is unlikely to ever happen again. They’d need to lose Consituency seats for this to happen.
There is only so much the Scottish Government, whatever party, can do though seeing as drug misuse policy isn't devolved. And yes, Scotland has faired miserably when it comes to drug related death and HIV.
No. The survey today said:
