Conflicting goals: voting for the SNP but not actually wanting independence?

[Chocchops72]

So I tend to watch Scottish politics from a distance, as I live in France. I’ve been out of the UK for 20+ years, but was born in Dundee and lived in Scotland all my life before then (DH too) and all our family are still there.

watching the demise of Nicola Sturgeon and all the ‘what next?’ questions that are swirling around… I wonder what Scottish voters want? The SNP, with independence as their #1 raison d’être, have been very successful at winning elections - but ultimately Scotland didn’t want independence. How could the SNP as a political party ever square that circle? It looks like Scots want to be governed by a local, ‘home grown’ organisation, but don’t actually want to leave the Union. What kind of political party could achieve that? Could there be (is there?) a party that is ‘Scottish’ and not part of any of the big UK parties, but which doesn’t have independence as a goal? What would that look like? Would you vote for it? National interest without independence?

I cant understand why people want labour to make a come back in Scotland after they propped up the GRR bill with SNP and the greens. Iv generally gone for whoever I think has most chance of beating the SNP but il be voting Conservative for the foreseeable now. They have their faults but my god did they stand up there, when no one else would.

@Motheranddaughter

Have never understood people who are anti independence but vote SNP ,but lots do

so I’ve just caught up with my mum on holidays and this is exactly what she would / has done. She has never been a fan of independence but she believes there is / was no viable alternative in Scotland to NS: she seems to love that ‘Chief Mammy’ pose particularly when compared with the bollocks going on in Westminster. She doesn’t go along with the GRC etc either but she seems to hold NS in great esteem.

my mum is genuinely bereft that NS has been ‘brought down’ by gossip mongers, when she’s the best Scotland has to offer - despite the fact that my mum would not want independence and actively disagrees with key SNP policies 🤷‍♀️🙄.