Where Now?
by Rab Bruce’s Spider Mastodon: @RabBrucesSpider1@Mastodon.Scot BlueSky: @RabBrucesSpider.Bsky.Social X/Twitter: @RabBrucesSpider Over the next few days, I’m sure we’ll see every political party putting its own spin on the results of the election. As expected by most people, the SNP fell well short of a majority of seats, but the Greens did particularly well, perhaps because more Yessers appreciated that voting SNP 1 & 2 was almost certainly going to result in their List vote being wasted. There are a couple of positive things we can take from the outcome. First, the SNP won more seats than all the BBC-backed parties combined, and when you add in the Green seats, there is a very strong majority in favour of Scotland becoming a normal, self-governing country. I did try to listen to the election coverage provided by BBC Scotland but it really was tough to sit through. What was noticeable was that they kept banging on about the S...