To wonder why people keep voting SNP?

How do you explain the great lengths Westminster went to in the lead up to the referendum to convince Scotland to vote no? Begging, bargaining, threatening, lying, all to keep us when we’re costing a fortune and racking up all this debt? Come off it.

Yes, they are! That is exactly what they are doing. As I suspected, you haven't read and understood the article.

Thanks. So, as I suspected, they’re not actually “going to court to have transwomen (fully intact males) rapists who have been convicted of rape placed in female prisons”.

Do English MPs get a vote on things specific to Scotland, like free University places? Or the amount of debt per head you are racking up, which then goes into a central debt fund?
Dont forget you owe more money per head than the English, so I am not sure how you plan to pay that back. Your tax will have to rise, to compensate the Barnet Formula which is so generous to Scotland. You will no longer be able to use the pound either. Your education system has let a generation fail, when it used to be superior, all thanks to the SNP. Glasgow is still the drug capital of Europe. Be careful what you wish for because it could be coming your way soon.
And if you fail to get independence, will you just keep pushing for another one? Maybe campaign for England to have an independence vote , because then you may well get your Independence.

Op just to clarify, do you live in Scotland? If not why would you be surprised that people actually living here would vote SNP if you have never lived their life?
I have lived in Scotland all my life, I voted SNP once, soley due to the fact our MP was amazing for our area.
I have never voted SNP since but I can understand how some people would.
Just basic but here’s an example. At the beginning of this month thousands of people were snowed in, schools closed, deliveries not getting through. Caused massive disruption. Did it make the national news? No. But then when there was snow forecast to fall in England, it was the main headline of the national news. How do you think that makes folk feel.
As I said that is a very basic example and again I would never vote SNP again but can see why folk do

Yes, I voted yes too in 2014, and have been horrified by the SNP shitshow

And I did vote yes in 2014. No way on earth that I'd do it now. The parties who are (ostensibly) for Independence have scuppered their own cause by being, well, shite.

You had a vote though in 2014? So they didn't deny you one but as it didnt go your way you are crying for another.

Yes, chickens voting for KFC, turkeys voting for Christmas and Thankgiving.

It never ceases to amaze me the number of people who will still vote enthusiastically for people who make it clear they have nothing but contempt for them

They also haven't paid the womens rights group For Women Scotland to whom they lost re the Supreme Court ruling on the definition of women, and refuse to pay them their money.

The contempt and disrespect the SNP have for women is horrific. They are outright breaching the Supreme Court ruling, refuse to pay FWS, and want males in female spaces and prison. They are beneath scum.

I’m as English as they come and I would like to have a vote for Scottish independence. I believe that the vote should be both side of the border so we can part company. Once achieved there should be a hard border and the withdrawal of our currency from Scotland and our military bases. No contracts for Scottish companies bring those south. Sooner the better really.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c8rm3kgp50xo

Essentially we get the bastard SNP because the "freedom" idiots vote as a block whilst those who understand economics are split between the U.K. parties.

I have had several terrifying conversations with SNP fanatics & it boiled down to "not the bus I want to be on but the destination I want to get to". She complained about many things & blamed them all on Westminster- these were all devolved issues🙄 and when I pointed that out she shrugged & said it was Westminster's fault for keeping Scotland "down" 🤷‍♀️

The SNP have utterly destroyed education in Scotland, they can't organise ferries or dual roads, are obsessed with the state acting as parents and destroying women's rights.
Health/life expectancy & drug/alcohol issues are swept under the carpet.

SNP are a real disappointment after Bute House deal with Green party. Expect they will lose control in May elections as have been in too long. Middle earners are hammered on their watch with a ‘high’ earner paying 42% tax over £43,663… yet average wage (median) is £39,700. Cost of Living crisis be mitigated if they stopped fiscal drag and plundering those in middle but by no means wealthy.

I honestly can’t find anything on this, can you add a link to a source please?

I also believe Scotland could thrive as an independent country. However, the SNP under Sturgeon has failed to run the country effectively. It's turned into a virtue-signalling PR exercise.

Why do they keep winning? Lack of alternatives really. The calibre of politician in Holyrood is generally dire. As a life long lefty Labour Party member, it's a sad day when I watch Holyrood debates and find myself nodding along to the Tory contributions.

I was so excited to see a Scottish parliament. What's it actually achieved - other than created a vast number of public sector jobs and funded a plethora of quangos that don't seem accountable to anyone? Never thought I'd say this but I think Reform's policy of shutting Holyrood down might be a vote winner. And that poor standing lies at the door of the SNP.

What, apart from the judicial review taking place in the next couple of days at the Court of Sessions where the Scottish Government are preparing to argue that refusing to place males in the female prison estate breaches those males human rights?

Or the fact that up until last year, under SPS (an executive agency of the Scottish Government) policy violent male sex offenders were being placed in the female prison estate following official self policy and was only partly overturned due to public outcry prompted by the photo of Isla Bryson?

Scots hatred for the English?
Some Scots.
Part of it is a dislike, distrust of being "run from afar". Westminster's decision making may not always have the best interests of a country making up the UK as first concern. It will look at the UK as a whole. The attitude of the "elite" the media and civil service senior executive.

However there is a sick streak which by replacing "English" with any other minority in the country or world reveals the speaker as an out and out racist, bigot and piece of scum. At least two parties thrive on this, draw support from this and do not report it kick out members who speak thus.

Scotland has had a worrying mental attitude towards success. "Dinnae get above your station", "I remember (the person who discovered a cure for cancer, perpetual motion and saved millions) when they peed themselves at the fair when they were five." Tall poppy syndrome - I hate to quite P G Wodehouse, but he picked on a vein of hate.

Most Scots are welcoming, keen to open their minds. Some, the ignorant fear the new. Towns do not have the community they had because people prefer to watch TV of an evening, use Social media, fear the scoutmaster - cannot be bothered. Complain about no social.housing, having bought their own council house for a steal.

As Oscar Wilde said "each man kills the thing he loves". Please sur, it wisnae me!"

The Scottish government is going to court to have transwomen (fully intact males) rapists who have been convicted of rape placed in female prisons. You obviously have not been keeping up to date with what has been happening.

I don’t know how anyone could vote for such a cruel party that is fighting to put male rapists in cells with vulnerable female prisoners.

What the fuck are you on about, no one is fighting for that.

I don't know if you were asleep when the GRR bill was passed in Scotland and then rescinded by Westminster, but they saved women and girls then. You have an idealised and unrealistic and very privileged life if women and girls including rape survivors like me being able to enter a female only change room is not important to you but some airy fairy idealistic view of 'independence' is.

The only reason that the utterly poor, ill thought out and women hating legislation which was the GRR Bill wasn't put into place was the invoking of a Section 35 as Scottish legislation cannot override UK wide Equality law.

Amendments to pause the process for an application for a GRC for someone who was being concurrently convicted for sex offences against women was voted down by MSP's during the GRR debate, among other amendments intended to safeguard women.

I don't know what world you live in but you appear to have a totally idealised and unrealistic view of Westminster if you really are looking for it to protect anyone other than the rich and powerful and it's own interests.

Scotland were colonisers .Partners with England . And before you start on about the Highland Clearances, we did it to our ain.
Class. Wonder why so many people from the West Indian former colonies have Scottish names ? But we sweep that under the carpet and winge victimhood and blame the English and Wastemonster.