Wednesday, October 15, 2025

Make mine a double: why it has to be BOTH votes SNP next May

And yes, I do of course intend to vote "Both Votes SNP" next May, and would urge all SNP members and supporters to do the same, for the reasons I've given umpteen times over the last fifteen years (basically that the list vote is your "banker vote", it's what the overall composition of parliament is determined by, and is therefore not conducive to so-called "tactical voting").  But I must admit my main reason for the headline of this post is just to trigger our old friend Stew, and my goodness he is so easily triggered these days.  

You'll notice that even though his latest epic rant about me extensively quotes from my previous blogpost, he doesn't refer to me directly by name.  This is his standard tactic, both on his main site and on Twitter, in the hope that in six months' time he can tell his fans to do a search for my name to 'prove that he never even mentions me'.   Hmmm.  I'm afraid that bird has flown now, Stew.  Even the hardcore of the brainwashed will have noticed by now that you do tend to blog about me rather a lot.

In the video below you can see my response to Stew's article, in which I address his main point head-on, and explain exactly why pushing for the best possible result for the SNP at next year's election remains the right thing to do and makes perfect sense, in spite of my misgivings about the strategy that was agreed on Saturday.

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6 comments:

  1. Bloody hell. I even posted on SGP that there should be a de facto referendum for independence, not Indyref2/sec30 as that would be pointless, before Campbell in 2020. But I certainly never ever suggested it was first thought up by me.

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  2. According the National: "Douglas Ross furious as UK Government snubs invite to Holyrood committee"

    Is he YES yet?

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  3. Brilliant post as always, James, I can always trust you to be judicious in your analyses.

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  4. IFS will still be voting ISP, for reasons only known to himself.

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  5. Been saying frequently on here that Campbell is nothing but a rabid right wing racist, genocide-excusing, demented wee freak whose only reason for living now seems to be the destruction of the SNP.

    From telling yessers to vote for unionist parties, playing down the blatant racism of Farage and Reform, ignoring Reform's links to both Russia and fascist US nut-job funders, to actually suggesting that we Scots should run away from our own country, Campbell is making it perfectly clear that he could not care less about Scotland or its people unless we are willing to be ruled by the same extreme right fascist slime which he supports.

    We Scots have refused to do that for around seven decades and will NEVER do it again for the foreeable future, so poor wee Stewie is well and truly knackered and he knows it.

    But Campbell is willing to see Scotland burned to the ground, as long as it means the end of the Scottish National Party and that goes for most if not all of those who still stick with that idiot.

    About as much use to our movement as a soluble tampon.

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  6. Looks like it's going to be a re-run of the July general election in Scotland where a significant number of pro-independence supporters will simply stay at home scunnered with the useless SNP leadership.

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