LostSettlerFeb 10

#ScottishIndependence

As a new Scots voter, I'm trying to establish best path to a majority for independence.

I'd vote SNP12 but that's not totally aligning with my values and probably makes my regional vote less effective.

Based on last time, for #Orkney #HighlandsAndIslands, my strategy is to go SNP 1 Scottish Greens 2, in an attempt to keep reform and unionists out regionally.

I don't want to live in a fascist state and that's what we will get in 2029 otherwise.

https://ballotbox.scot/scottish-parliament/sp21/highlands-and-islands/#con1

Highlands and Islands 2021

Results of the 2021 Scottish Parliament Election for the Central Scotland Region.

Ballot Box Scotland
Show threadSimon BrookeFeb 11
@lostsettler I'll be voting @ScottishGreens 1, SNP 2. Firstly because it aligns better with my values, but secondly because the SNP need to be firmly told that they need to be both bolder and more competent. I was a member of the party for almost three decades, but they have not governed well this last few years.
Show threadLostSettlerFeb 11

@simon_brooke I hear ya. The question for me is based on a tactical outcome. Here in #orkney SNP are number two in the constituency and while I doubt it'll happen, deposing the Lib Dems in favour of an independence candidate would be good.

I wonder if the rise of reform will detract from the Lib Dem vote here or the SNP one. Clearly it will replace the Tory one...

Show threadLostSettlerFeb 11
@simon_brooke and the local SNP guy is pretty vocal about improving the energy system here (all these renewables and ever higher bills? Please!) so I support that, but not so much the local OIC councillors (who are mostly ancient and have some really feckin stupid ideas like 20mph zones which were already 20mph at appropriate times... And self driving fecking cars, a hydrogen filling station that isn't used and is just an eyesore and continual funding of emergent tech that doesn't bloody work)
Show threadSimon BrookeFeb 11

@lostsettler H'mmm... My last proper job was working on the software which controls Orkney's interconnecter. There's absolutely no reason why power on Orkney should not be too cheap to meter most of the time, since the problem is largely shifting power *off* the islands.

But that's a UK Government competence, not a ScotGov one -- at least until we get #ScottishIndependence

Show threadLostSettlerFeb 11
@simon_brooke exactly the SNP guys point. And he's said it multiple times (in the local rag. The Orcadian, cos paying Β£2 for basic community information every week is just how people roll here, although personally I prefer @fionaorkneynews ... )
Show threadFiona Grahame Orkney News Ltd
@lostsettler @simon_brooke it's good to have different local news providers so that not merely one view, or one issue, is being covered.
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Show threadLostSettlerFeb 11
@fionaorkneynews aye there's a place for the Orcadian clearly, it's just fecking expensive for an ever diminishing number of pages to get the wood burner going with!
Show threadFiona Grahame Orkney News LtdFeb 11
@lostsettler they cover things we don't wish to, like the Sheriff Court, and a lot of Ba stuff
Show threadLostSettlerFeb 11
@fionaorkneynews Ba pah. I can also understand why you can't be hanging around the sheriff court, find it all a bit distasteful really.