to be sick to death of the BBC covering Scotland and the SNP?

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Why do they think it's such big news? I'm sure if you live in Scotland then it's interesting. But as 92% of the UK don't live there, why go on and on about it? It's the second time today I've had to turn the news off because I was so bored by it.

As I said to him indoors 'Leicester City winning the league, Donald Trump running for president, and the Tories gaining seats in Scotland. Think I might put a tenner on myself to win Wimbledon'

:)

Yes Ruth Davidson being second is huge scotland really spoke imo.

Go on Morris stick the lottery on anything can happen

I'm ahead of you :)

I loathe the Tories as much as the next person, but if I can feel genuine warmth at the sight of a tiny grinning wumman celebrating victory with her same sex partner by her side then Cameron needs to start sniffing up here.

She was chuffed to bits i really like her and it confuses me Tory and like just isnt right ime she is the best wee wummin to keep Nicola in check

The op will be twitching all this scottish politics talk on their thread there is no escape

YABU obviously. And parochial. I like to hear about the London mayor and the US presidency campaign. If you don't, switch over.

Everyone else celebrating SNP losing their majority therefore second referendum must be out the window....you do realise that with the Greens success the Scottish parliament is now in a pro-indy majority?

And the Conservative success is a unionist defensive reaction?

All you have here is a new battlefield in the fight for independence.

A big fan of Ruth Davidson here, which is amazing, consider I have almost zero interest in politics. Watch your back, David Cameron.
Wonder what the odds are on Ruth to be PM at some point?

Yy demented can you imagine the ructions in establishment Westminster if Ruth was aiming for leader of the Conservatives - btw I'd love it!

I completely understand. I am so fucking bored of chat about SATS and academies and NHS trusts and tuition fees and property prices in the south east, and the high speed rail link and tube strikes and hose pipe bans and bloody cricket and on and on and on. A couple of weeks talking about the Scottish election is a drop in the ocean.

I'm another life-long leftie who is a fan of Ruth Davidson. She's great. I love that women are so central to Scottish politics.

Nothing happens in isolation. Of course the results in Scotland affect the rest of the country. Just like the US elections affect us. And yes, even the football results, in some small way. Everything informs everything else.

I think the Scottish Leaders and Msp's are much more approacgable (not the word i want) and normal than westminster does that make any sense?

YABU! I thought it made a change to see something other than Londoncentric news, which is pretty irrelevant to me in rural Wales. Am more interested in Scotland and the SNP than in the London mayor for example. We're all different.

mrsjay I agree with you

YABU for all sorts of reasons. Believe it or not there are many of us Scots living in England who are very interested in events in Scotland and indeed Northern Ireland and Wales. Don't be so parochial.

I'm in south east England and what goes on in Scotland has no direct affect on me

That has to be one of the dimmest statements I've seen on MN.

1. Had the indy referendum gone the wrong way the break-up the UK would have affected every one in the UK.

1. The resurgence of the Tory party in Scotland is major news after decades in the wilderness.

1. The decline of the Labour party in Scotland is major news and has a significant impact on the UK Labour party.

1. The resurgence of the Tory party in Scotland means , as some one else said, Scottish politics is dividing on constitutional issues, not right wing/ left wing. (It might suit the pro-indy bunch to pretend all unionists are evil right wing capitalists but it would not be true) If you can't see how that directly affects the rest of the UK you need your eyes tested.

you do realise that with the Greens success the Scottish parliament is now in a pro-indy majority?

The increase in Green MSPs is very unfortunate given the Scottish Greens are hard-line , verging on communist, misogynists. Fortunately there seems to be no love lost between them and the SNP.

I don't give a crap about football, so, top tip, I don't watch the TV when it's on.

Thanks Lass for the compliment.

1. How?

2. so what?

3. I don't care too much about the Labour Party. So...good? Again, how does that affect me?

4. Scottish voters are voting for parties which are either pro or anti independence. Again, why does it affect me? (I'll wait for my opticians appointment for the moment)

I'm sick to the back teeth with hearing about some football team who wear blue winning something. I keep asking my DH ... have they actually played the match, or what... it's just tedious. Even on BBC this morning with their slot where the Beeb have to accept criticism, there was a viewer saying how 10 minutes of it in the main headlines is too much. I couldn't agree more. It's been every day for at least a week.

Also sick of seeing Nicola Sturgeon on telly, yes, but I suppose it is important to the country.

If Scotland were to leave the UK every news bulletin would consist of angry yet tedious divorce negotiations and teething issues over the land border for about a decade! Be very afraid.

Do you really not get it ? Do you really think the south East of England exists in a vaccuum? Well clearly you do.

1.if Scotland had voted to leave the UK that would have diminished the UK as a whole. I don't mean just as a geographucal land mass but politucally and economically. There would have been years of destructive and costly arguments about who gets what/ allocation of national debt/ allocation of assets/citizenship status/currency/. Think of the nastiest divorce you can and then some.

1. Ruth Davidson (I will assume you have heard of her) represents a whole new type of Tory polutician and potential Tory strategy.

1. You sat you don't care about the Labour party. You seem to be confusing not wanting to vote for the Labour party with the need for there to be real choices and an effective and robust opposition party. The significance of Ruth Davidson and the resurgence of the Scottish Conservative party is that hopefully we now have that in Scotland but the demise of the Labour party in Scotland makes any resurgence of Labour in Westminster off the horizon for the moment.

1. See answer to 1.

Oh fgs "geographical land mass" and "politically"

I'm in the South East cake that wouldn't affect me . I'd find it fascinatng tbh.

You really do think you exist in a vacuum / self contained bubble.

Presumably it was too boring and you missed the very angry discussions in the run up to the referendum about

(a) divvying up the national debt
(b) divvying up Bank of England reserves (c) the Nats insisting there would be a continuing right to use Sterling despite the Governor of the Bank of England and everyone else saying no
(d ) the status of the UK and Scotland in the EU

Those are only a selection of issued all of which would have taken years to resolve and affect everyone in the UK.