For a very short Episode 8 of the Popcast, I recorded some thoughts on the election results so far and looked ahead to what may be happening on the regional list. You can either listen via the embedded player below, or via the direct link HERE.
Saturday, May 8, 2021
Scot Goes Popcast: Reflections on the first day of election results
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James
ReplyDeleteThanks for this.
Picking up on your point about a multi party mandate being ‘as strong’ as a single party mandate, I would argue the converse: can you imagine how strong a mandate would look if (don’t laugh) snp, greens, labour snd Lib Dem’s all shared that mandate? Politically that would be a bulldozer - so to my mind having (at least) two parties with an independence mandate is a strong benefit. Not least surely because ‘Europeans’ looking in, and well used to multi party governance, will surely see this as a strong statement across a swathe of the political spectrum?
The opinion polls except the Com Res poll were fairly well within the margin of error.
ReplyDeleteI thought the SNP would match the 2016 vote share and might struggle in their marginal seats they gained from Labour. I needn't have worried as they won most comfortably.
If they get 64 seats and the PO is from another party, do the SNP not have an effective majority anyway as the PO always votes with the government if it's tied?
ReplyDeleteIt's certainly not the SNP's turn to be the PO, as they held that 2011-16.
No, there are 128 seats excluding the PO, so it would be a 64-64 split.
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