Fine article. Full of interesting detail. Reading your articles helps with the confusion. Hard to explain it really. Another cracker of an essay.
One thing though - 'And the Nationalist vote in Scotland collapsed'. Naw it didnae. Scottish nationalism hasn't been on offer from any of the main political parties, Scots or English, operating …
Fine article. Full of interesting detail. Reading your articles helps with the confusion. Hard to explain it really. Another cracker of an essay.
One thing though - 'And the Nationalist vote in Scotland collapsed'. Naw it didnae. Scottish nationalism hasn't been on offer from any of the main political parties, Scots or English, operating in Scotland since the 2015 election. No major parties representing Scottish nationalism have been operating in Scotland since then. The existence of your Outer Party explains it only in part. It helped though I can assure you your essays on what you call the PMC.
The polls have been roughly the same for a while now around or just under the 50% mark which means at very least 60% of the Scots born population want Independence and belief in the Scottish nation is higher than that still (Scots born voters voted YES in 2014 btw. It was run on a local government franchise). Given the massive influx of people from south of the border and abroad since 2014 that's a fair showing. The Independence or nationalist vote isn't going anywhere because it has currently nowhere to go and fuck all to vote for. Some nationalists many who had been in the SNP for decades voted against the SNP in anger/disgust and for anyone who could beat them. Maybe 500,000-750,000 stayed at home - turnout here was 70% in 2015. There are Scottish nationalists who vote for all the other parties as well and always did. It makes a change for us turning up at the town hall and voting against something. While I don't go down that route I sympathise with the English people on that score, amongst other things.
'..we can conclude I think that, except for political systems in which literally every shade of belief is somehow represented, election results at all levels are unlikely to give a reliable picture of opinion in the country as a whole.'
Fine article. Full of interesting detail. Reading your articles helps with the confusion. Hard to explain it really. Another cracker of an essay.
One thing though - 'And the Nationalist vote in Scotland collapsed'. Naw it didnae. Scottish nationalism hasn't been on offer from any of the main political parties, Scots or English, operating in Scotland since the 2015 election. No major parties representing Scottish nationalism have been operating in Scotland since then. The existence of your Outer Party explains it only in part. It helped though I can assure you your essays on what you call the PMC.
The polls have been roughly the same for a while now around or just under the 50% mark which means at very least 60% of the Scots born population want Independence and belief in the Scottish nation is higher than that still (Scots born voters voted YES in 2014 btw. It was run on a local government franchise). Given the massive influx of people from south of the border and abroad since 2014 that's a fair showing. The Independence or nationalist vote isn't going anywhere because it has currently nowhere to go and fuck all to vote for. Some nationalists many who had been in the SNP for decades voted against the SNP in anger/disgust and for anyone who could beat them. Maybe 500,000-750,000 stayed at home - turnout here was 70% in 2015. There are Scottish nationalists who vote for all the other parties as well and always did. It makes a change for us turning up at the town hall and voting against something. While I don't go down that route I sympathise with the English people on that score, amongst other things.
'..we can conclude I think that, except for political systems in which literally every shade of belief is somehow represented, election results at all levels are unlikely to give a reliable picture of opinion in the country as a whole.'