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

[Fundays12]

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 have no idea who to vote for. DS can vote for the first time and said what’s the point.

Even when it was announced 300 migrants would be moving into Cameron barracks which is right next to an army residential estate, a primary and huge secondary school and the locals raised questions around this SNP refused to get involved or answer

@Fundays12

Why would the SNP "get involved or answer" for something that is absolutely nothing to do with the Scottish Government or the SNP?

This was a plan dreamt up entirely by Westminster Labour, who didn't even bother to inform the SG before announcing it, and since Immigration is entirely a Reserved policy area in any case, any questions or queries need directed to London.

Its there job to answer questions and if they don't have the answers find out from Westminster and get back to constituents. They did none of this. The fact the Scottish government were not informed is diabolical however refusing to answer or even communicate with local people is worse.

utter pish from the snp today
don't know how they expect farmers and small shops to survive if they try to implement minimum food pricing, supermarkets only it seems.
and indy ref 2 of course
and if they can't deliver on their promises, it won't be because they are fucking incompetent, oh no, it'll be westminster's fault.

They are totally and utterly insane.

Personally I think the independence ship has long sailed and hope that the SNP don't scupper themselves by going on about it.

I've not decided, but it's going to have to be a strategic vote to keep Reform out. I can't help but wonder if there was any truth to Reform's claim that Labour suggested a coalition. It sounds unlikely but in politics you always wonder.

The are not proposing a minimum price. They are proposing the opposite - a price cap for some key food products.

Whit?
How's that going to work Farmer Giles can get more for his key food south of border thats were he'll be selling it.

TBH I wouldn't mind a labour / reform coalition. Anything would be better than more of the same SNP.

You ever think SNP should run their policies by MN before they open their mouths and let there bellies rumble?

I can't help but wonder if there was any truth to Reform's claim that Labour suggested a coalition. It sounds unlikely but in politics you always wonder.

That's one of the problems with Labour isn't it? Not being able to trust Sarwar.

To me, Labour's current position seems so entrenched and obsessional, that it feels quite possible he suggested they work together against the SNP, after all Labour have worked with the Tories before now, so 🤷

Exactly my thoughts. If there’s a price cap on food, how are the SNP going to force producers to sell it at that price in the Scottish market, rather than shipping elsewhere where they can get a proper price? Or is the SNP proposing that the government go into food production themselves and produce a ‘government bread’ at the capped price? Either way it’s obviously unworkable.

And we do have some of the cheapest food on the planet in the UK. If people cannot afford to buy it there are other, bigger problems in play. How about the SNP try addressing them?

I think Reform are full of shit so I don't really believe anything they say.
They know suggestions of a coalition will lose Labour votes (who are their main competition for second place).
Its a sly move from them.
Edited to add: both my labour MSP and MP have been very helpful with personal matters compared to the SNP MSP I had about 10 years ago who did f*ck all about anything I emailed about. So that may influence my vote this time.

DH ballot paper has arrive, mine never turned up!

Is that Reform data not for Westminster elections?According to BBC website today, for the Scottish election’s Edinburgh Central it’s a battle between Greens, SNP and labour . There’s a large student population.

Indeed. This link was to Westminster data. Edinburgh central polling is currently being led by Lorna Slater (which makes you wonder what passes for an education these days).

The Times had an article about Edi Central recently:
https://www.thetimes.com/article/25143943-9713-4dbe-b3bb-7330efbf8870?shareToken=5c68f6686ae460358bae6059150ed1ba&ver=article

Two of dd's friends (UofE students) were at the husting where Deirdre Brock made her statement about education. They are voting Labour but with no enthusiasm.

Lorna 'Gingerbread Man' Slater?

https://spectator.com/article/is-lorna-slater-the-worst-minister-in-scotland/

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-65960911

www.scottishdailyexpress.co.uk/news/scottish-news/scottish-government-cannot-back-up-26961353

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-65570607

www.scottishdailyexpress.co.uk/news/politics/lorna-slater-left-red-faced-28468109?int_source=amp_continue_reading&int_medium=amp&int_campaign=continue_reading_button#amp-readmore-target

https://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/news/10211961/green-msp-lorna-slater-flouting-environmental/

Honestly, I absolutely despair.

It’s so depressing. I have no one to vote for.

The SNP food price cap thing is funnier the more you look at it.

How do you force food producers to sell at a capped price? If I was Warburtons and they said that I could only sell my £1.20 loaves for 50p in Scotland I just wouldn’t sell them in Scotland. Withdraw from the market. Or would the government compensate them, which would presumably be classified as illegal state aid?

When the minimum alcohol price laws came in the scotch whisky society took the Scottish Parliament to court, and with appeals etc the whole thing took over 5 years. And yet Swinney seems to think this policy would help people now, when it takes years to implement.

It does clearly breech the internal markets act and Swinney only response to that is that he hopes Westminster doesn’t stop him protecting the vulnerable in Scotland. Which leads me to think that someone has thought this up for no reason other than to give the SNP a ‘grievance’ to complain about. ‘Och we’d hae oor 20p bread if it wisnae for the bastards in Wastmonster’!!!

If I was Keir I’d tell the Scottish government to fire away, feel free to go head with this wholly unworkable, legally dubious policy and stand by to watch them fail.

I don’t know who to vote for. Previously I would have voted SNP but for the past few years now I haven’t agreed with their policies and have really struggled with my vote. I won’t be giving it to Labour, Reform, Lib Dem’s and definitely not Greens which is another reason I won’t be voting SNP.

Unfortunately SNP will almost certainly get the most seats after a disastrous last term in Holyrood.
My constituency vote will have to be Labour as only the SNP and Labour candidates are actually local people openly tackling local issues.
My regional vote will be Conservative for the first time ever - I don’t agree with everything in their manifesto but a lot of it feels refreshingly like common sense and as pp have highlighted- they’re a more robust opposition.

My local vote will be for a fantastic independent candidate we have but for a regional one goodness only knows

as I said above, labour for constiuency (its them v snp here) and Tory for regional (as they know what a woman are and I don't support independence).

Its alarming how many people don't realise how the two votes work though and that they could essentially be wasting their first vote.

Well my "who to vote to get the SNP out" tactical voting site suggests Labour for constituency vote, and whoever I fancty other than SNP/Green for regional.

Did catch a party political broadcast last night which was so amateur it was funny - some woman who struggled with joined up sentences and Tommy Sheridan!