@LillyHerself @baldur Same reason England needs #ReformUKLtd: to drive out the untermensch who are miscegenating with with the daughters of True Englishmen (or Icelanders) to produce tainted offspring.

The pure, sacred blood of the pure Aryan races must not be allowed to become contaminated!

[satire, in case I have not made this clear]

@BarneyDellar @ScottishGreens

Interesting side note on this question: the percentage difference between list and constituency votes, be party, was as follows:

SNP: 28.63%
Labour: 17.32%
#ReformUKLtd: 5.92%
#Tories: 0.007% <<<<< tribal or what?!?
#LibDems: 17.28%
#Green: -512.9%

I'd always had Labour down as the most tribal party in Scotland, but look at those Tories go!

#ScotPol
#Holyrood2026

@drgeraint @Cyclist First Past the Post no longer works in favour of either of the two legacy parties, which are currently the two largest parties in #Westminster. Which is why you would think it would be a complete no brainer to legislate for full #ProportionalRepresentation, right now, before the summer recess.

I would bet you anything you like that it won't happen, and that #ReformUKLtd will win a 'landslide' in 2029 on the votes of 20% of the registered electorate.

https://www.journeyman.cc/blog/posts-output/2024-07-06-The-election-and-after/

@drgeraint we could all imagine the #SNP WANTING that, but wanting isn't the same as winning, and a triumphant #ReformUKLtd government wouldn't pay a blind bit of notice anyway.

This is a 'kicking the can down the road towards the oncoming tanks' strategy.

#ScotPol

@drgeraint and how is that going to help? The #SNP won just NINE seats under #Swinney's leadership at the last #Westminster election; it will very likely lose two of those this summer in by-elections; and unless he plays an absolute blinder he'll lose a couple more at the 2029 election, to #ReformUKLtd.

How's he going to achieve anything with five MPs? They're lost in the noise.

#ScotPol

@patrickhadfield H'mmm... When you look at the full figures, only 38.2% of the electorate voted #SNP on the constituency vote (full disclosure, I'm one of those, and I am *not* an SNP supporter these days!) So when you say that 27% voted SNP on the list, that's 71.2% of SNP voters.

#BothVotesSNP has always been a party-before-country, anti-independence policy. Yes, it certainly boosted #ReformUKLtd's seats at the expense of @ScottishGreens.

#ScottishIndependence