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?

Yep - that's the SNP and Greens for you.

Still - Reform did very well, so that's something for them to reflect on.

A very wise post. We can all sneer at those who vote differently to us. Unless we take the time to understand why rhen si goes issue parties, ftom SNPs Indy rhetoric (& let's remember 'wheesht for Indy' to Reforms 'stop theboats' nonsense will continue to suck people in & life will continue to decline whilst grifters in power laugh at us all. Sb: 'single issue parties' - app playing up again.

Well reform doing well actually gifted the SNP some seats by splitting the unionist vote further…

And the SNP losing seats to the loony party - so they didn't get the majority they wanted.

Remember though - it's the unionist vote at a referendum that matters here, and that's remained pretty consistently a majority.

I feared that would happen.

Don't worry - the SNP votwrs who didn't think the SNP were sufficiently incompetent or crazy moved to the SNP which is why they lost seats. The unionist parties are still there, just in a different form. The indy ref ballot box is what matters wrt independence.

The face that the SNP are still in control and will have to turn to the green loonies to get things through is what we need to worry about - although in reality I think we have become so immune to their incompetence that we no longer question it to the point it makes a difference.

I know!!!
I didn’t understand that one at all.
Not meaning this guy at all, but surely that’s a security risk loophole for foreign interference if someone here (officially) temporarily can take up a seat in parliament?

Blame Shona Robison for that shit show

Informative thread on Twitter regarding the changes to eligibility of candidates -

x.com/hightreebud/status/2053039013473161280?s=20

Can you imagine the uproar from Wur Leader if this had been the other non SNP/loony Greens parties?

This is truly mad

And this plays straight into the hands of Reform.

Exactly.

More than a million people didn't vote SNP/Greens than did - if they carry on this nonsense that figure will rise.

is there any actual guidance someone could link to on eligibility to be an MSP?

www.electoralcommission.org.uk/sites/default/files/2025-04/SP%20Part%201%20-%20Can%20you%20stand%20for%20election_0.pdf

Found this interesting -

www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/clypq73qeg5o

Totally agree. This is all wrong.

Do they also have a right to vote, because that shouldn't be allowed either.

Another informative thread on Twitter about the visa situation specifically -

x.com/hightreebud/status/2053294462718152911?s=20

"Unsurprisingly being an MSP is not classed as a talent, global or otherwise" 😁

I was also shocked by the SNP government wanting to allow 16-year-olds to become MSPs. Leaving aside the safeguarding issues for those teenagers themselves, how is a 16 year old going to do a useful job of either helping constituents facing all kinds of problems or of taking part in decisions on legislation? They have very little life experience and are still at school. And what about the SNP obsession with brains not being full formed until age 25?

I note that in the consultation exercise the public were against both allowing children to enter Parliament and allowing foreign nationals on short term visas to enter Parliament. But there was support from "organisations" - I'm guessing the usual organisations who are basically paid for by the Scottish Government - and the public were ignored:

"Consultation responses on the Electoral Reform Bill were overwhelmingly opposed to extending candidacy rights to 16- and 17-year-olds.
In analysis of the responses published in October, the Scottish Government said 77% of respondents were opposed to allowing people over the age of 16 to stand for election and they were against allowing foreign nationals with “limited leave to remain” to do the same.
But the analysis also noted that organisations had mostly backed those proposals."

I was also shocked by the SNP government wanting to allow 16-year-olds to become MSPs. Leaving aside the safeguarding issues for those teenagers themselves, how is a 16 year old going to do a useful job of either helping constituents facing all kinds of problems or of taking part in decisions on legislation? They have very little life experience and are still at school. And what about the SNP obsession with brains not being full formed until age 25?

Leaving aside the fact it's not remotely realistic for a 16 year old to garner both the party support, and the public support required to actually get themselves elected, rendering the "how is a 16 year old going to operate as an MSP?" questions entirely moot, the basic point is that a country which permits 16 year olds to have sex, have children, marry, work, pay taxes, run their own households, join the armed forces, and holds them legally responsible for their own conduct, has absolutely no business either telling them they have no right to a vote in order to formulate the laws that they are subject to, or that they should be prohibited from participating by standing for election themselves for no other reason than the fact they are only 16 years old.

They are either adults with adult responsibilities, and functional members of society with all the responsibilities and obligations that come along with that, or they are not. You can't have it both ways, which is precisely what they irreconcilable position was when we still taxed 16 year olds, let them raise families, let them join the armed forces etc, but then told them they could get fucked if they tried to vote.

To me it smacks of brainwash them through school then try to get independence.

Maybe its a maturity thing the older you get. The more you see a benefit to having the Union, trade, jobs and defence.
Defence, is massive, least SNP have shut up about scrapping trident after Russia flexed their muscles.
If Russia was to invade Scotland what could we do about it - not a blinking lot!

Yet somehow under-25s do not have fully-developed brains and do not understand what constitutes a terrible crime, so a 23-year old rapist who murders his victim by setting her on fire gets a reduced sentence.

It’s a blast from the past but modern day Scotland treats 16 and 17 year olds very differently now so I think they moved things the wrong way.
When I was at school last century, many people left at 16, got jobs, paid taxes. Yes some even got married or had families.
Thats all very unusual now. The vast majority of 16 and 17 year old are still at school, college, apprenticeships and few of them pay tax. Most still live with and are dependent on parents.
I think we should have recognised as a country we still treat them as children, kept the voting age at 18 and moved other things up to 18 in line with how society has changed.