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[–]supersmokio6420 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

Despite fuckery like this, they're the only competent party in Scotland.

[–]RedEyedWarriorGay | Male | 🇮🇪 Irish 🇮🇪 | Antineoliberal | Cocks are Compulsory 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

That sounds depressing. What’s up with the other parties?

[–]Silverdarling 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

The other 'progressive' parties (Labour, LibDem, Green) are even more nakedly incompetant and also support gender self-ID and the whole wokist mania - not just in Scotland but across the entire UK. Then there's the nutter Tories, who have been despised in Scotland for decades and are at the moment tearing up the NI peace treaties/EU withdrawal agreement so they can implement their disaster-capitalist hard Brexit vision and enforce whatever weird authoritarian kleptocracy their monied backers want.

I've always voted SNP (except for a while when I lived in England and voted LibDem). But I won't vote for them again on point of principle (after lesbian SNP MP Mhairi Black accompanied that drag queen 'Flow Job' into a primary school in Paisley to implant trendy gender confusion in young kids' minds and then had the absolute gall to call the voters who objected "TERFs" and "Jeremy Hunts" still scunners me!!) but there's many in Scotland who are genuinely terrified of what the UK parliament are about to inflict on Scotland and the SNP are the only ones tuned into that wider constitutional mood music. Unfortunately they appear to want to do f-all about it - like all parties who've been in power too long they have become arrogant, corrupt and lazy. Dangling the perpetual carrot of independence to their true believers while doing nothing to achieve it. And why would they? Blaming the English for all that's rotten in Scotland has always been our national sport. One that allows the venal and corrupt Scottish politicians to stick their snouts in deep at the trough.

Mind you, the thought of being in an Indy Scotland with these SNP cretins at the wheel makes me wonder about independence - redefining human biology and drawing up their 'Hate Speech' bill to outlaw dissent or criticism of anything that hurts people's 'feelings' (the SNP's 'Hate Speech' bill is to replace the medieval Scottish blasphemy law which was used to persecute witches and religious non-conformists, ironically enough). It's as mental as anything that the wokists have done in Canada.

The UK union is obviously chronically deranged and indy Scotland sounds like it would be a total nuthouse too. So basically whoever governs Scotland, common sense and political sanity have long gone in this part of the world. It is extremely depressing! :(

[–]RedEyedWarriorGay | Male | 🇮🇪 Irish 🇮🇪 | Antineoliberal | Cocks are Compulsory 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I am sorry to hear that. And I thought Ireland was bad.

The only solution right now seems to involve putting pressure on politicians. Not by threatening to vote for the alternative parties, because they’re clearly not any better. But by getting together, bringing the numbers up, and being louder than the lobbyists. There are what, 130 MPs in the Scottish Parliament? Versus ~5 million Scots. Politicians should be afraid of the people they rule over. And this can be achieved if lay people get together.

[–]Silverdarling 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

We'll see. Scottish people are not going to sit idly by while the Tories take us into a hard brexit pariah state status while they plunder us openly. But neither are the Tories going to give up their last resource-rich colony without a fight. It was always going to come to this one day, but I used to think the international community might care enough to intervene when that day finally came. But I now see that was very naive of me.

And lol - here was me planning on moving to the Irish Republic! My work are happy for me to take my job (and taxes) over the water and move. I know Ireland has many a problem, but it does at least have a future.