

Brian adams
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🗣️ 'A Scottish Green MSP on a short-term visa represents the kind of future that PR advocates want: politicians chosen by parties not voters' @TomTugendhat shares thoughts on the newly elected Green Party MSPs Q Manivannan ⤵️ telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/05/1…



Ok. Let’s do that. SNP + Greens took 49% of the vote and 72 MSPs between them in 2021. On Thursday their combined share of vote was 41% but they ended up with one more MSP between them — 73. So combined share of vote down 8 percentage points. Hardly momentum for independence. And it’s share of the vote that matters in a referendum. Nor does one more MSP for independence change anything. There was a majority of MSPs for independence before Thursday. Much good did it do them. So what’s new? Nor does anyone seriously think combining Green and SNP MSPs a serious basis for claiming independence. Even Nicola Sturgeon acknowledged it wasn’t. Even more so now — the Green manifesto for Thursday did not include independence. So it’s no mandate for independence.







Is anyone still pretending Reform are against immigration?









