Nationalists - the Scottish/Welsh kind!

[weegiemum]

I voted SNP this morning.

Didn't see much difference between them and the LibDems, except the Trident issue, and that means a lot to me.

Are people even voting Nationalist this time, given the debates etc ?

Wasted vote here anyway (Glasgow => Labour) but couldn't bring myself to vote for Tom Harris.

I'm too Scottish not to - I think (though Irish/German dh did the same!)

Did anyone else vote Nationalist (of a decent kind - not BNP) today? and why?

Today was the first ever election in which I didn't vote for Plaid Cymru.

I live in a Plaid/Lib Dem marginal, and at the moment I feel that a Lib Dem MP will have a bit more clout than a Plaid one. Also Plaid have put me off by doing U-turns in order to support Labour in the Welsh Assembly. I don't want to vote for a Labour puppet dressed up as Plaid.

As you say though there is very little to choose between them on policy.

I too voted SNP, but in a safe SNP seat (hopefully)!
I have always voted SNP because I believe that Scotland should be able to take responsibility for its own affairs as a normal nation.
I think the debates will have had a knock on effect, which is why I think it was wrong for them to be held as they were. The media have not really got a handle on devolution at all. DH's suggestion was to have randomly selected consituencies from across the UK appear on a televised debate. That way surely the politicians could get their policies across, and it would get it away from the presidential style approach we have seen this time.

weegiemum - I know the SNP candidate (Malcolm Fleming) who's standing against Tom Harris. Malc is a really good guy, so hopefully your vote won't be wasted!

I nearly voted Plaid if that counts but she was only really talking about issues that although are important are not the key ones to me.

I voted SNP in a completely safe Labour seat. I had to stand up and be counted, even if it won't make much difference.

I voted SNP (Malcolm Fleming, Prickly, so hope you're right!)

So that's maybe three of us in the whole of Glasgow then!

Like you, I think the televised debates have really skewed the election up here - I think the SNP have had to work much, much harder to get their message across.

DH voted SNP.

I went LibDem.

I know Malc as well, lol

Voted SNP as always, really high turn out at our polling stations, prob not a good thing.

Labour seat here, but SNP won the seat in the Scottish parliament last time.

The election coverage has been shocking up here, Bloody wall to wall Tory, sure they only have 1 MP in Scotland so why the coverage, terrible!