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?

I did too - I'd be interested to see how many votes she polled, but haven't managed to track down the results for the list. Does anyone know where to find the breakdown?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/election/2026/scotland/regions/S17000022

One of the great things about your main policy being independence is that it doesn't require you to do any work. It's not as though they're actually planning for the process (which would be far worse than Brexit) or for after independence happens, is it? They can just complain about Westminster not allowing another referendum, and job done.

Total Regional Electorate 564,000 She managed a grand total of 1,600.

Good riddance, she's an utter halfwit and was a hopeless constituency MSP.

@NameChangeScot Getting all As doesn't mean that your child has received a good education. No disrespect to your son, but Scottish education is very dumbed down compared with other countries.

How much more effective it would be if Labour, Tories, and LibDems ignored it. It would totally deflate the SNP, but no, all of them seem happy enough for it to be their main topic!

Why have the Greens done so well?

They respond to the SNP - and they consistently push for the SNP to "focus on the day job" (a phrase not coined by the SNP). But nope, everything comes back to independence with the SNP while everything else gets worse with each year that passes.

They’re proper wrong ‘uns

the mind boggles

Fuck knows. Maybe their voters decided the SNP weren't sufficiently barmy, anti women, or incompetent?

Wtf. "Sorry, not sorry". Pathetic

I was trying to be polite. My child also got good grades, but they absolutely did not get a good education. Compare what children in Scotland do at school with what children in other countries do - that's a deeply depressing exercise.

Might have something to do with the demographics of where they did well, not that I've looked in detail at that.
Having two trans MSPs will make things interesting, and not in a good way.

Scottish education standards have been in decline since 2006. We used to have an exceptional education system here in which overall we outperformed against England. That is no longer the case. So whilst our children are getting good grades and going off to university, it doesn’t mean that our education is good.

Funnily enough, all of my education was under the Tories,mainly Thatcher. I was a working class background, first generation to go to university. The change in opportunities for kids like me was quite seismic at the time and I want that ambition for all the children in Scotland now and sadly we don’t have that.

Scotland has lost its ambition and is happy to blame Westminster for its woes, forgetting that we once had that ambition irrespective of Westminster.

My child got straight As at Nat 5 last year. Full marks in some subjects. The quality of examination was really low. A1 in English when the quality of their written work is really poor, they haven’t read a book since they were about 8 and didn’t read the set text at all, just read a summary of the book. Written subjects like English and modern studies are particularly poor. You pretty much only need to know the layout being sought and you have a C. In England Gove made the syllabus much more rigorous a while back. Unfortunately this meant many cannot pass the exams as they’re not able, but it really suits the bright students who are properly stretched. Swings and roundabouts.

The Greens did well in areas with lots of students who are on the whole naive and think that there is a magic money tree to be tapped and that the billionaires will be happy to hang around and be taxed. They aren’t. The squeezed middle will suffer. In their manifesto they said they’d double stamp duty. , which is nice in theory but if they do nobody wiukd ever move again. The IFS described this as making an already very economically damaging tax twice as bad. Great.

It will be interesting to see what happens in Aberdeen. Flynn has his eye on the leadership and seems keen to get Aberdeen to be prosperous again. The Greens say banning new oil and gas development is a red line for them.

Thr country will just get worse over the next 5 years. I cannot see any hope of businesses thriving here, schools improving, healthcare improving. The economic situation is just too dire. Spending is out of control. Too many public sector workers on inflated pay. Too many quangos (LGBT Youth Scotland anyone). Too many benefit junkies. And a leadership spending all their time pissing around with independence which cannot be delivered and would be utterly disastrous if it was.

Does anyone think things will get better? If so, what?

So stop responding to the SNP! It's this that keeps it going. Get on with the day job? Which of the other parties seem capable of doing that exactly?

None of them because ALL of them are stuck spouting the same old crap about independence.

Then, like you, say it's the SNP's fault they talk about it. Do they not realise they have the potential to really take the wind out of the SNP's sails by just not talking about it?

By concentrating on, and only discussing, the "day job". Ask them about an independence and they could say, if it happens we'll be encouraging voters to vote no, but it's pointless discussion right now when there's more important things to think about, like health and education and the ferry situation.

They're all enmeshed right now. One of them needs to get off the merrygoround.

I think the greens have benefited from a bit of a Polanski bounce. They also took some former SNP votes.

Looking at the Green MSPs is very worrying. Weird af

Edinburgh Central is studentville. Students and their limited life (and often privileged) experience seem to love the Greens. Plenty of ‘vote green’ in the windows and Edinburgh Uni is deep into gender ideology so go figure.

One of the trans green MSPs doesn’t even have a right to work in Scotland as he’s on a soon to expire student visa. How the fuck can he even stand for election?!?! Absolutely batshit.

Through some sneaky legislation, quietly passed during Covid. It's absolutely radge.

From what I've seen, it also brings up some issues about sponsorship for such visas by the SP.

The one that needs to get off the merry go round is the SNP - stop focusing on it, stop talking about independence and mandates, acknowledge there is a shit ton of work to do to get things back on track, and make key services their priority. They won't though - I see the Greens have said that independence is needed urgently, so now we have 2 pro indy parties holding a majority I can guarantee that will be their priority. Not housing, not education, not the NHS, not employment opportunities, not women's rights - independence. God help us all if we have the Greens and the SNP taking us through Brexit on steroids. It'll be worse than Boris and his lot.

I wasn’t expecting to be shocked by much at this election but someone who doesn’t even have the right to work or only has a temporary right to work under the graduate scheme is now catapulted into a well paid job and represent their constituents in parliament and have a voice in our legislation.

What an utter shit show.