To wonder why people keep voting SNP?

I vote SNP for various reasons but the main one being that I want independence, as do most people around me. It's not for 'anti-English' reasons but because it makes the most sense to me. If we were to get independence, my vote may change in the future.

Yes anti English xenophobia is utterly rife. It’s so shameful in a nation that also pretends to be welcoming. Due to my mixed heritage I was declared to be ‘English’ at primary school despite not an English gene in my dna and was regularly beaten up for it.

Scots have a terrible inferiority complex when it comes to the English - worst in the working classes - when they have nothing to feel inferior about - and this insecurity comes out as hatred. It’s grim.

They hate the fact ‘the English’ can afford large houses without understanding that these people aren’t English but come from all over the world. Practically no one in my kids school in one of the best catchments in Scotland have two UK born parents - and its people who move about that get on in life, and if you don’t want to get on your bike and get a good career, you’re not going to earn sky high salaries.

Well you haven’t. Because that’s exactly what they’re doing 🤯.

You may be Scottish but I am British. I’m living in the UK, as stated on my passport. I am only who would move south immediately on independence. I wouldn’t want to leave my family but there is absolutely no way I want to live in a country of people who thought Indy would be a good idea. People who have zero comprehension whatsoever of the damage Indy would bestow on Scotland. I am so pleased the UK government is fighting for the interests of the likes of me. We are after all British citizens. And my employer would hit foot it south rapidly too, as would my husband’s so that’s also a consideration.

I have a suspicion that any animosity you have received from Scottish people is not because you are English....but is because you are a patronising twat.

Sweetie.

This is bonkers to me though! How can you make a ‘decent society’ in a country which is totally and utterly screwed financially. Where absolutely everything - pensions, benefits, public sector salaries, nhs spending, education spending would have to take a real terms budget cut of 20% minimum. How would some people survive?

Spoken like a true Scot. I rest my case.

For me they are best of a bad bunch.

Labour and Tories as the same just a different colour of tie.
Greens are batshit crazy.
Reform are not for me.
Lib Dems are a pointless vote.

Except the UK sovereignty owns the North Sea, not Scotland. And the financial district in London, generates more income than the whole of Scotland, so there’s something to think about.

'Sweetie'.

Do fuck off pal.

That’s exactly what the marjority want sweetie.
So all the very best. Following the demise of the corrupt SNP, it’s been a panto of even greater disaster than Westminster.

The first day as a staff nurse in a Scottish Hospital, all the nurses turned their back on me and refused to speak to me. Having never met me before. One kindly told me I was English and therefore they wouldn’t trust me until it was earned. Having come from the top training hospital in London, I soon learnt how backwards they were.
When we got some new neighbours, they told us they didn’t like English Oilies. Charming.
i don’t suppose you have had this South of the border….
i am sorry to say that when my husband was offered a promotion in Kuwait, we jumped at it.
I had some very good Aberdonian friends, but they warned me how narrow minded the locals could be.
Good job we left when we did, Aberdeen is no longer a booming city. Our house is still worth the same as it was many years ago. My friends tell me even John Lewis has shut, due to the economic climate.

@Carla786 yes BBC, ITV and Sky

I’m Scottish and I don’t vote SNP but through my unionist/anti-nationalist perspective

those who do want independence vote SNP or Green and and those who don’t vote for the unionist parties

there are less nationalist parties than unionist ones so the vote splits less and guarantees the SNP biggest party status

and

Labour have been shit for a very long time and so some vote SNP because they are perceived as being competent in government

and for some it’s just a cult

it’s the everything is shit and let’s blame our neighbour party. Some
for snp for the exact same reasons as some in England vote for reform

There is very little love of the SNP no matter what your political persuasion.

unless something happens to make Labour less shit then the SNP will win again

Because they’re realistically the only party that stands a chance of getting us out of the lying Union.

Scotland makes up around 7–8% of the UK population, yet we have: 32% of the UK’s land mass, 62% of its maritime area, 33% of its arable land, 61% of timber production, 85% of oil and gas reserves, 90% of freshwater, 67% of fish landings, and around 25% of Europe’s offshore energy potential, alongside world-renowned industries, products, and expertise in emerging sectors.

And yet we’re constantly told by unionists that we’re too stupid, too poor, and too small to succeed as an independent nation.

Remember back in 2014, when the unionists told us oil and gas was finished, that it was unreliable, and that an independent Scotland couldn’t possibly depend on it? Fast forward 12 years and, miraculously, the oil and gas reserves have refilled themselves and are now central to the energy policy of the UK’s right-wing parties. Let’s also not forget that an independent Scotland would be 100% energy self-sufficient and a net exporter. But inside the Union, we somehow pay more for the energy we produce than consumers in the rest of the UK.

So yeah, I'll have no choice but to vote for them until one of the other parties with a chance of winning puts Scottish independence on their agenda.

Goodness knows. No one n England knows why they did that. Maybe they owned private islands there. But if you join the EU ( not sure they will be ok with that due to your huge debt) anyone wanting to live in England could require a visa. A lot of Scots are saying they will move South of the border to avoid tax rises, so you may lose your high earners. I lived in Scotland and the pettiness shown towards England was embarrassing. No one down here gives it much thought, we are far too busy.

I fully understand the article. Don’t be ridiculous.

Well, quite. You'd have thought they'd have said 'oh thank fuck! You want to separate - off you pop and godspeed!' instead of a parade of who's that emploring us to consider our shared history etc.

Have a read at the drivel @cotswoldsgal1234 has come away with and it will go some way to explaining why some Scottish people get a bit fucked off with English people at times. That nonsense along with the fact that whoever the English vote for we are stuck with as a government. I have English family and friends and I love them to bits, I holiday in England quite a bit, this is true of most people I know. I don’t think we hate the English, those of us who want independence would just prefer to be friendly equal neighbours fully managing our own affairs.