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 despise Restore and Reform

i have no one to vote for

Is there good independent candidates in your local area?

I've never heard of Restore so don't think they're standing in my area.

They are a very new political party who are still interviewing for candidates etc for certain regions and setting up branches. If you look up Rupert Lowe on Facebook you will find out more information. I dont think they plan to stand in any local elections expect Greay Yarmouth just now but will be fully established for the next lot of elections (if I read it all correctly).

Rupert Lowe is vile

I don't get a vote because I am a Scot overseas, but I would find it very difficult as they are all so bloody awful. There are too many who would vote for a donkey if it were wearing a yellow rosette.

Last night I watched a dispatches documentary on the number of police offers being assaulted. The truth is there is so little deterrence for criminals now and absolutely no respect for law and order. If the threat of a terrible punishment was there then hopefully they would stop murdering/raping etc.

They are only talking about having a vote to see if people want to bring it back for the worst crimes. Once you have watched a few documentaries/podcasts (or indeed dated someone in the police front line) you soon realise how scary it has got out there. If the police are being attacked themselves how the heck are they going to protect us. No we need much bigger deterrants and the point of the death penalty is why should we pay a fortune to house murderers in jail.

So think Wayne C, the policeman who raped and murdered Sarah E. No doubt about it. How would you feel if you could sentence him to a merciful death rather than having him locked away at the taxpayers expense for the rest of his life. I bet quite a few people would be happy he got a lethal injection.

Thats your opinion which your entitled to. However most politicians seem vile and a couple almost seem hell bent on destroying the UK at present. I like some of Ruperts policies and others I dont like at all.

so does that mean your 2nd vote (regional) could go to them but your first vote would have to go to another party? I suppose you could leave the first one blank and just do the 2nd vote if there is a Restore candidate there.

Gosh I will have to investigate to see if I have a local candidate. I hope I do.

Yes there were a couple of their policies I was less keen on but overall I liked most of them.

Labour’s was definitely the worst in terms of not actually saying anything! And the terrible not-even-a-bar-chart-just-some-different-coloured-blocks

I don't think so. My understanding is that at the moment only people in Great Yarmouth can vote for them because Rupert Lowe has been established for a long there already. However the party was only set up a few weeks ago and have made a decision to not run candidates nationally because they wanted to vet candidates fully and ensure they didnt rush the process. Again I may have misunderstood this so check.

I plan to vote for an excellent local independent candidate we have in my area but I dont know who to use my second vote for.

My cat rubbed her bum along the labour information sheet which pretty much summed up my views after I read it 😬

why do you hate Restore?

They are going to support workers and genuine vunerable benefits.
They are going to rework the NHS
They are working on education
They are improving law and order
They are scraping the triple lock for the state pension and instead having a double lock which I think everyone will be happy with
They are going to offer apprenticeships from age 14 for children who are less academic.
They have loads of really sensible great ideas.
The only communities I can see not thinking they are good are perhaps the lifestyle benefit claimers, anyone who comes from abroad and wants benefits and other free stuff, anyone who wants lots of laws etc specifically for the muslim faith.

To me there are trying to restore Britain back to somewhere around the eighties to nineties before mass immigration and when we had a working NHS, great schools and strict law and order. The nineties was a great decade and I for one would love it if they could turn the clock back a bit.

Can you explain why you think that? The only people I can see who would shy away from their party are criminals, benefit lifestylers and folks from abroad hoping to milk our public systems for free stuff.

Am I missing something?

Because they are racist and far
right, snd not for me

I'd actually never heard of them either until a few days ago. Then I read their policies and thought good grief, where do I sign up. So reading the thread it seems like they might be relatively new and just coming together. If they don't have a local candidate I hope at least I can give them my regional vote.
Honestly take 5 mins out of your day and skim the below and tell me what you think. I bet you will like them too.
Restore Britain policies

What is it that makes you think they are racist?

Everything i have read states clearly hard working, legal migrants who contribute, follow British law and integrate are welcome to stay in the country. If a British citizen goes to another country to live we do so knowing we have to pay our own way so why should anyone come here and not do the same? When my child had an accident and Spain he got no medical care until we proved we had insurance. They made it clear because your foreign we wont treat him unless your insured. I didnt feel that was racism it was a country prioritising its medical care for Spanish born nationals.

I was struggling too but have been really surprised to read the policies for Restore. I've attached their policies a few times. Honestly give it a skim. It's like such a relief to hear someone so sensible.

I have no idea why they are being called 'far right'. They are against criminals sure, they are against benefit scroungers sure, they are against people coming from abroad and taking advantage of us sure. However surely most of us are against these things as well.

They have sensible policies for state pension, NHS, education, law and order and many more. I was really impressed by their list. I shall definately vote for them at the next general election if I can (and I am hoping I can vote for them at the upcoming scottish elections too)

Are you standing for them @SunnyButStillCold ?

I watched a really good podcast the other day which summed the UK up really nicely. It says we need to start spending in accordance to how rich we ARE. Not how rich we think we are or how rich we wish we were.
And that is the crux of it.
We need drastic changes to turn things around and I can't see anyone except Reform or the new Restore party doing it. I was thinking of voting reform as I am so concerned with the lack of law and order and police officers being attacked so regularly. However Restore seem more sensible and have really given lots of thought to their polices.

I assume we will be able to vote for them at the next general election and I'm off to find out if I can vote for them at the scottish election in a few weeks (at least at regional level if not local)

Right that is interesting. I will be reading up about them over the coming week. Hopefully they have candidates for the next general election at least.

Your cat sounds very wise!

Racist seems to have become code word for not wanting to look after our own citizens which is insane.

We used to welcome legal immigrants here and I believe we still do. However we should not be putting them before our own citizens. That's just bannana's. And we definately should not have these strange illegal men wondering about breaking our laws and being housed at our expense. What kind of soft touch mug of a country allows that. I honestly think the rest of the world must be laughing at us.

Anyway the vast majority of their polices are about things like education, state pension, supporting workers, police and they even want to increase punishment for those who think animal cruelty is acceptable. If all these things are the ideas of a 'racist' party well bring it on.

I've no connection to the party no.

I have to say though having read their polices today (after someone recommended them to me) I might well donate or get involved. They seem to me to be the only hope the UK has of turning it around.

Meanwhile the SNP are promising more benefits, more of this, more of that while the UK goes bankrupt. Morons. And don't get me started on that labour lot. It's slim pickings indeed come the local scottish elections

Have a look at Rupert Lowe or Restore Britain's Facebook page as I am sure it explains it in all in a post in one of them.