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Exactly. Fortunately she is smarter than social media NPC's.

Separate but equal policy isn't equality.

The point still stands if they won't switch their vote. I want Forbes to run and win. Although not because I think she will a miracle worker, but to show the opposite of that. It's done for now. There isn't a mechanism to independence that isn't through permission by the UK goverment. I'd like to see what she does, what ideas she has. She might be smart to wait it out a bit, get her family up a bit. Get a cabinet position in Swinney's government and take it from there.

What's that first graph? Net favourability by age group then has rural and urban? I do agree they appeal to different parts within the party and definitely outwith. Liking someone more but never switching to a yes vote doesn't do much. I don't have a twitter account so I can't really see what these mean.

I just read about it 25 minutes ago. I had no idea. I'm ill and avoiding doing anything of use. So decided to see what news i have missed in the last 3 months. I thought it was an april fools joke to start with Murray.

Folk were raring to go off the back of Sturgeon, before all the mess hit. Now it is a poisoned challice , folk might moan about Swinney but he might be the only one really wanting to do the job.

Maybe the TAMB can prevail where modern biological taxonomy has failed. I've always liked this exchange about the subject.

I see Craig Murray has joined George Galloways party.

What's the answer to what is a "woman" by the way? Or indeed what is a "man". Since there is obviously a right and wrong answer.

2 out of 4 leaders is not bad.

The whole point of representative democracy is that we have representatives who are embodied with the will of their constituents. Who then vote on things. So when the majority of the parliament votes on something then you have the "preferred direction of travel of the majority of citizens" . Rather than polling everyone about everything all the time. However whipping up a moral crisis and engaging in culture wars is a political tactic. As we've seen here on how folk think it is of such importance it should be the first question asked. Personally I hope Forbes have the same faith in herself as others do and takes the job cause then we're going to see how little difference it makes, when sh'e suddenly under the spotlight in a completely unfair way.

How do you ascertain the "preferred direction of travel of the majority of citizens"? More poll data about the election. https://www.ipsos.com/en-uk/john-swinney-preferred-snp-voters-wider-public-more-likely-say-kate-forbes-would-be-best-first-minister

So we shouldn't have a leader that follows a dogma?

I'm not sure how more likely they are but it wont even be 1 order of magnitude more. I'm trying to get some information on voter turnout stratified by age but can't find anything, bar 16-17 year olds had almost 80% in one tracked election. It dipped after that: https://www.sps.ed.ac.uk/sites/default/files/assets/doc/Votes at 16 in Scotland.pdf You also have to adjust who they vote for too though if we're going to actually run the maths on it. 2021 election 16-34 had 58% for SNP 5% for others (green,alba etc) 55+ had 38% for SNP 0% for other. So younger folk are 50+% more likely to vote for SNP

She's fine and just cause i think something doesn't mean it is right. She might do really well. However views are entrenched on independence , only time will move the landscape really. Which is done by young people getting older. Which is why young peoples concerns about things were getting aired. The older folk 3 generations above them don't understand that it's always the case that 3 generation gaps never think about the world the same. So you end up in a culture war "woke" blah di blah. The problem is does Forbes appeal to generations that are not yet entrenched in their views or not. I think for every "older person" she brings in it will be matched by a "younger person" going out. Hard to say anything concrete though. Always liable to just spout pish where politics are concerned everything is so opaque around it.