SNP in secret attempt to challenge Supreme Court ruling on sex

I'm saying that Reform inhabit many roles. They are the default English National Party in England, and the Brexit torch bearers for the whole UK.
They likely become the (just) dominant party in Wales, now supplying the anti-Labour role with the Tories below insignificant. Toe to toe with Plaid.
In Scotland, they edge towards becoming the relevant opposition to the SNP.
All three of these roles, in terms of votes and MPs harvested, means Reform have three active sources of popularity, and with the multi party atomised nature of UK politics from now on, become the dominant force.

My GP practice used to not fill my repeat prescription every so often because I needed updated blood pressure tests. Did they tell me this? No. They would just not do it and leave me to chase the pharmacy, chase the GP practice - and because it would sometimes get missed anyway (or even get sent to some other, random pharmacy!). I wouldn't always know it was because of the blood pressure issue. Eventually I asked the GP practice why they didn't just contact me about the blood pressure. Response - "We don't have your permission to use your phone number." Unbelievable! What's it there for then, just to look pretty on the form?

Reform would in no way be a defect English National Party in Scotland!!!

I can see Reform and the Tories after 2029 mimicking the SNP and Scottish Greens before their breakup.
Reform become the defacto English National Party with plenty of Welsh support and main opposition the SNP.
Like the SNP, a core 30% support with atomised 6-way opposition keeps Reform as the permanent party of govt.
And like the period of govt where the Scottish Greens were co-opted into govt, the Tories enable Farage.

Ironically Reform actually occupy a lot of the same ground as the SNP used to. The SNP never used to be left wing and Reform aren’t wed to Scotland remaining part of the UK. They aren’t an independence party but a nationalist one and I suspect would prioritise that over maintaining the union.

Every failed party in Britain is or will be rewarded with losing power. The Tories, next, Labour. But this won't ever remotely threaten the SNP.
I could actually see Reform winning on the vote share the SNP does, and because of a 6 way atomised vote, Farage and his crew stay in power even if Reform fails.
Reform becomes the defacto. ENP (English National Party).
The main party in England so by extension the perma-majority party.in govt, and the main party/opposition in Wales/Scotland.

Its a very risky move that is very likely to backfire as when a judge (this judge or a higher crt judge on appeal) throws out their request for an order of incompatibility, it becomes a death nel for all the TRA arguments and will force both the uk government and the snp government to implement the SC ruling, it will also scupper all the TRA attempts to overturn it as it is compatible with human rights laws

The NHS app is a prime example of the SnP failure. They could have gone with the app available in England and had it for years already. But they didn’t because they wanted an entirely independent Scottish app developed in Scotland. So there is still no app and people still rely on paper letters that can’t make it through the snow of the last week, and them phoning up when stuck in the snow and leaving messages on answering machines hoping it won’t push them back down a multi-year wait for treatment. Still having to phone up GP practices for test results etc etc. All because the SNp prioritises being different over getting things done.

I know, Igneo. We can look forward to years more photo opps for that useless shiny faced fucker who does absolutely the square root of fuck all for his lovely salary.

Hmm.You only need 30ish percent to win, and Reform have the advantage of appealing to disaffected voters apparently across the political spectrum.

I think low turn out may be an issue overall, though.

I'm one of them, until they stop this madness I will never vote them in again. Betrayed is an understatement...

Starmer didn’t win votes though - Labour got a very similar number of votes as they got at the previous election when the Tories got a large majority. The Tories also lost a good number of seats at Westminster this time round as the right of centre vote was split with Reform. Labour got a landslide with a huge majority despite 80% of voters not voting for them. The SNP also lost a large number of seats at the last general election.

The Scottish elections are sort of PR - which means a large number of MSPs are dependent on the party not constituency for their seats and, like Green MSPs, can win seats despite not being named on the ballot and nearly 94% of voters voting against their party. Then they get handed huge power as the kingpin in a coalition…

I wonder if that's how UK politics will work out in future.
Reform and SNP on 30% get permanent power.
Opposition of the other six parties atomised.

https://www.electoralcalculus.co.uk/scotland.html

Is also informative.

And, your point is? I'm saying that the SNP get disproportionately more seats in Westminster than the rest of the UK, and effectively they also get disproportionately more funding than the rest of UK.
The SNP have worked this to their advantage, yet remain the biggest group of gripers and grifters in British political history.
And seemingly have a lock on power as Scots seem to think the party has their best interests at heart, and still mine the "we're the only ones on your side" schtick.

Scots are British taxpayers.

What's the total number of voters in Scotland?
I mean, the Tories have had their arses handed to them after a shocking 14 years (especially 2020-2024), Starmer will receive the same fate in 2029.
Arguably the SNP have performed worse than both of them, yet stick around like a bad stain you can't shift.
It's almost as if devolution was always a bad idea, create a permanent fiefdom at the British taxpayers dime.

Last general election they got 724,758 votes. They have been a minority government for a while in Scotland - handing lots of power to the Greens. But there do seem to be a lot of idiots who continually vote for them.

Scots continue to vote for them in their millions, and they get disproportionate representation at Westminster. They're literally rewarded for failure.

I wonder if even the SNP MSPs are amazed at what they get away with. The latest farce concerning breach of parliamentary standards just shows what a joke Holyrood is.