Scottish Elections who do you think will take the majority of Seats?

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As a Scot I genuinely have no idea who to vote for.

I dont trust the SNP and find John Swinney completely incompetent. I wouldnt trust him to run my household budget let alone the countries so he is out for me. I cant stand labour, the tories well are not my cup of tea, lib dems and green would never get my vote.

However i dont seem to be alone in having no idea who to vote for which leaves me wondering who will take the majority of seats across Scotland. What do others think will happen?

And, the people who didn’t want it were probably the people it was put in place to expose.

Again, more information about it here. Another 'great' idea from SNP consigned to the dustbin, thanks to the SC 👏

Yes. Good point.

No adult should be 121 with a Scout at any time. I hope you reported this person to the Scout Association?

To whom are you referring? I was (and remain) against the legislation, I've made that clear. Are you inferring "the people " who are of that view abuse their children?

Who is set to win the South Scotland area ?
Whi is set to win Midlothian South?
Anyone ?

As I said, this happened to someone I met at college, who was an adult when I met him.

Polite and superior as ever I see.

• "The Named Person was not intended to replace parents or gain parental rights.
• The role did not itself create police-style investigative powers.
• However, critics were concerned that the scheme encouraged greater state involvement in family life and potentially reduced parental control over sensitive conversations and information-sharing.

The Scottish Government’s GIRFEC (“Getting It Right For Every Child”) framework emphasized that children should be listened to directly and that professionals should consider the child’s views when discussing wellbeing and support. That naturally included situations where a child might speak to the Named Person without parents present, particularly in school settings or where safeguarding concerns existed."

I can't possibly imagine anything going wrong there, with a scheme which involved named persons who were already busy professionals, and every child in Scotland.

"THE" people against the legislation are abusing their children. So all of the people who were against that insane piece of legislation are child abusers, are they?
You can improve communication between different agencies without setting up a system covering every single child in the country, most of whom have no involvement with those agencies.

Yep. Don’t know what any parent would be against that…

It’s quite easy to gather data, then pass it on.

@Differentforgirls Could you respond to my earlier post which asked you to clarify your comments about child abusers please?

No. That’s not what I meant. However, every single child in the country should be included in it. Every child has involvement with education and health. Two of the agencies. If they don’t then that in itself is a safeguarding issue.

What did you mean by the people against the legislation due to “privacy of family life” are out there abusing their weans?

What you said earlier was:
"Thanks for proving that you have no clue what the named person scheme was trying to achieve. the named person would have had no access to the children involved. None.
It’s actually frightening how ill educated people are on a proposal for agencies to do joined up working so we never again have baby Ps.
The named person would have been a data collector.
Every report made to the police, NHS, SW, Education etc was to be sent to that person so that a picture of abuse could be built up
The named person collated it all and then sent it all to SW.
Then proper interventions could be made."

That's VERY different from how the BBC has described the Named Person role:
"The government's proposal was to appoint a "named person" who would monitor the wellbeing of each and every child in Scotland, from birth to the age of 18.
The intention was for this person to be a single point of contact if a child or their parents wanted information, support or advice, and for other services if they had concerns about the child's wellbeing."

This confirms what ChatGpt has said - the Named Person would absolutely have had the opportunity to contact and to meet with children on a one to one basis. And that person would have been in possession of sensitive confidential information about children in some cases. For instance, any concerns raised by anyone about possible abuse, about underage sex, about crimes committed by the child, about sexuality or gender issues, and personal information on issues being experienced by the parents which might have an impact on the child.

Remember that we are talking about a Named Person for every single child in Scotland, from birth to age 18, so a very large number of Named Persons would have been needed - there would have been a big recruitment drive and things would have been rushed and compromises would have been made. Bad actors would inevitably have volunteered for the job, and would have been in an ideal position to groom children, using blackmail (based on the confidential information they would have had on the child) to obtain sexual compliance.

I don't think there is an exit poll for the election this year...

Still no clue I see. I helped set it up.

Any idea why?

I think someone (like a media outlet) needs to pay for it and nobody has?

Ah ok. Thank you.

I did an exit poll for Norstat online about two hours ago. I hadn't actually voted at that point yet ("not voted yet but will vote" was an option to tick, I assume "not going to vote" would have screened me out) but have voted since. I was sent an invitation by email for it. The survey asked for my postcode so I got the list of candidates for my region and list options on another page.

Was so depressing trying to decide who to vote for as quite frankly none of them deserved my vote.

Says it all 🤣.