Sturgeon is on her hobby horse again

[Suff]

Scotland will start unlocking up to 3 weeks faster than England. Because.

She's so good and things are going so well and the Scots are the reason it's all going so well and.....

In fact it is nothing more than electioneering and taking a poke at Westminster to buy votes for the SNP majority victory.

The sad fact is that most Scots I know actually believe her and never hold her to account when things don't go the way she planned out. She deflects it all onto people who "won't comply". The woman infuriates me so much she lost my Indyref vote.

[cromwell]

It's not an act you can keep up forever though.
When Sturgeon gets independence for Scotland, her problems will really start.
Especially if Johnson realises that allowing Scottish independence would be very popular in England.

[Suff]

Well removing the SNP and Labour from the elections would make a Labour comeback a Very difficult hill to climb. Yes he would lose some 12 Tory seats, but the remainder of the seats are against him.

However he's already on the hook for the partial NI separation, he might not want to get the reputation for being the destroyer of the UK. It is hardly fair because that was Blair and when he created the devolved assemblies it was inevitable that the SNP would eventually gain control of Scotland and Cameron went for the Brexit vote.

If you look at it from the other side of the border, a Scottish government puts the money where the Scots want it. No more massive upgrades to the M74 and the west coast links, the A1 is hugely upgraded to the border, the A9 is, finally, getting the dualling that has been needed all my lifetime and the Aberdeen bypass is going in at long last. These are infrastructure projects that Westminster has no interest in but are important to a whole raft of Scots.

When all that money starts flowing in a different direction it makes quite a compelling story for the SNP and people who just accepted things as being "the way things are" suddenly ask "why it has taken 50 years to get what we needed".

So Boris gets the poisoned chalice, the extra boost in votes and the reputation as a UK wrecker. Quite an achievement for someone who had nothing to do with any of them....

Yes, I know, he asked for it and he will get it. It is one of the reasons nobody really wanted the job, nobody could see a way out of it with a whole political skin and Boris, after all, is hardly a career politician.

[Workingman]

Yes, Suff, but she couldn't care less about your vote or any minority, she wants the popular vote, just like your man Mophead did, and it looks like she is getting it in spades.

She has 51% of the constituency and 40% of the region votes, and her approval rating as party leader is 54%, which apart from Labour's Sarwar (30%) is way more than 2.5 times that of any other leader.

It's a tough life when your favourite is not winning, eh? At least it looks as though she will get most sets from gaining the most votes unlike Mophead who got a majority of 80 by winning only 43.6% of the 67.3% of votes cast - just 29.4% of the electorate.

Maybe a new voting system is needed.

[Suff]

Maybe.

Of course if she does get everything she wants and does rip Scotland out of the UK and does jump into bed with the EU, I might just get a Scottish passport.... Silver linings and all that. Even with that I'd still vote against her. We shall see how many votes she managed to buy.

[Workingman]

What silver lining!?

You are not Scottish and you hate the EU, yet live there. So, if Indy happens, you will get a Scottish passport and become an EU citizen and then vote against your democratically elected sovereign government just like, well, Remoaners. You proud BrEnglishman, you.

C'est la vie sanglante.

[Suff]

Ah, viewpoints. My mother and father were stationed away from home when I was born. Had my father been stationed in Leuchars nobody would have said I was English even If we moved back to England the day after. My daughter was born in Germany whilst I was serving there, she is not German.

Yes I live in France, love France and like the French in general. I moved here when both countries were in the EU and to avoid homelessness during the financial crisis. Whilst we love our home here, this was never the plan but life and the blind determination of Mrs S to do everything wrong financially, that led us here.

But you are right, I do not like the EU or what it stands for. Neither do the majority of my French friends. But we can sweep that under the carpet.

I am stuck here because the financial crisis knocked 75% of the value from homes here and they have only recovered about 15% in the last decade. We would have sold up, bought a home in the UK and a much cheaper holiday home here in France. But that dream is gone now, Covid has tanked the nascent recovery in home values again.

So if it takes becoming an EU citizen again to make my life possible without being seen as an undesirable alien, then that I will do.

I have no qualms about being Scottish rather than English, I was baptised in the church of Scotland, not the Anglican Church for a very good reason. My ties to Scotland have always been stronger than to England and, like my younger grandson, born to two Scottish parents but happened to be in a hospital in England, I am categorised as "English", but have attitudes and values which are decidedly Scottish.

Acting like a remoaner? You forget, I had a vote on Brexit but did not use it. I felt it was not fair. Unlike the remoaner over here who were rabid that they had lost theirs for being away so long.