Friday, May 8, 2026
The rumour mill and the art of the possible
As we await the initial results and as the first strong rumours start to come through, could I just make a gentle suggestion to all SNP supporters. Just completely stop talking about an SNP overall majority for the rest of the day, and start talking excitedly about an unprecedented pro-independence supermajority that will take this country closer to self-determination. If it's true that the Greens are taking two or three constituency seats, the path to 65 for the SNP is now so narrow as to be almost closed off, notwithstanding the very interesting rumours about Shetland. But the combination of a strong Green performance with Labour saying they've had a disaster in Glasgow (which is likely to be replicated elsewhere) could still mean by the end of the day there will be a really, really sizeable SNP-Green majority after list seats are taken into account. Let's start talking the significance of that up.
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It was a terrible mistake to stake a second referendum on winning a single party overall majority.
ReplyDeleteCorrect. But will the person responsible do the decent thing and resign?
DeleteVery wise advice which this SNP activist has thought for months.
ReplyDeleteYet many of the cultists said they weren’t going to vote. They can suck on their dummies while the rest of us get on with living.
DeleteBreaking: "Senior SNP figure" hints that Rear-Admiral Angus Robertson may have been lost to a rocket fired from an unrecycled bottle.
ReplyDeleteFrom somewhere in Gaza.
DeleteSNP down over 12% in Dundee West and Orkney. Beginning of a pattern?
ReplyDeleteThat's bang in line with several opinion polls, their baseline result from five years ago was an all-time high of 48%.
DeleteCole-Scuttle claims Edinburgh Northern ahead of count.
ReplyDeleteFor balance: SNP gain Shetland from LibDems.
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