Scottish Parliament Election, 6th May 2021

[Blair]

FWIW it was fascinating to see the people who were prepared to frankly eat sh**t defending an awfully implemented policy & those who were happy to say that it had been cocked up; it was equally funny to see those who claimed 'well I doubt you'll be complaining about English results' when this u-turn actually puts a lot of pressure on the English Government to do the same.

I think the most charitable defence is that they massively took their eye of the ball when this was an issue back in May (when this was all consulted on, at least in England) & seemed shocked that it had such cut through

[Blair]

I might be wrong but that seems like a timetable for a coronation.

[Blair]

It might be because it's an excessively bubble esque story (parliamentary committee arguing with prosecutor about releasing evidence) but it's still remarkable that this hasn't had less cut through & hasn't caused bigger issues in the SNP.
 

[Blair]

I think the most likely option is for a rather embarrassing result- according to the polls Salmond is pretty despised.

[Blair]

Not that it means much but listening to Alex Salmons on Radio 4 this morning made it perfectly clear he is yesterday’s ego, to create a phrase.

He’s not popular or particularly liked 

[Blair]

Not that it means much but listening to Alex Salmons on Radio 4 this morning made it perfectly clear he is yesterday’s ego, to create a phrase.

He’s not popular or particularly liked 

Has very similar ratings to the person in your username and pic, strangely enough.

Well yes I was going to post that but it appeared quite meta; most despised by people in their own party, hated for their actions both in & especially out of office but retains an extremely vocal minority of support. 

[Blair]

Not that it means much but listening to Alex Salmons on Radio 4 this morning made it perfectly clear he is yesterday’s ego, to create a phrase.

He’s not popular or particularly liked 

Has very similar ratings to the person in your username and pic, strangely enough.

Well yes I was going to post that but it appeared quite meta; most despised by people in their own party, hated for their actions both in & especially out of office but retains an extremely vocal minority of support. 

He's one of the grand total of 2 Labour leaders that were able to win an election the last 70 years.

Well yes! Much like Salmond he was an extremely skilled politician in his day but I think if Blair had taken the approach of Salmond (setting up a splinter New New Labour Party with a rump of MPs) it would probably get a similar approach to Alba- Blair has to his credit since 2010 known that he's too toxic to interfere in most internal or even external elections in the UK.

[Blair]

So what exactly are the policy differences between the SNP and Alba? Are there any substantial differences at all? Does Alba have any unique selling points that would actually motivate any SNP voters to defect besides the big ego of Salmond?

They've been supported by a small minority of women within the SNP who oppose self identification for transgender individuals.

While Salmond is extremely unpopular, I'm a bit uneasy with how seemingly the entire commentariat has decided to proclaim that that one poll is as good as an election result. (Though it is in keeping with the relentless hyping of every poll on Scottish independence) It's a single poll, there's still some time to go and it doesn't need to be too far off for seats to be a possibility.

I think there's been a few? I was basing mine off the Yougov favourability ratings which were pre-Alba officially launching (I think?)