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Post by thomas on May 10, 2024 7:47:41 GMT
We Scots are best placed to judge the merits of devolution and our own parliament compared to your uk parliament at Westminster where we can judge the governance of both over the last quarter of a century. So why is it in poll after poll , vote after vote , over the last 25 years , Scots prefer Holyrood to Westminster governance , think the Scottish Parliament has largely performed better at tackling the devolved issues than what Westminster would , and a majority of Scots want more powers for the Scottish Parliament if Holyrood is just as crap as Westminster? As ive told Vinny for year s, why is it on average barely 8% of Scots want to scrap Holyrood , and even among unionists , the majority prefer Holyrood governance to Westminster? www.whatscotlandthinks.org/questions/how-should-scotland-be-governed-five-response-categories-collapsed-to-three/ What policies from the Scottish Government do you feel have been a success? Will that do anything to further debate on this topic , except to expose our already visible personal political views? I will say I approve of policy like ending right to buy , you will say potentially enacting Brexit , and so on. Many policies are good , some bad. No governance is perfect .However , we are talking about parliaments , and systems of electing that parliament , and comparing it with the tired stale feudal style Westminster governance , and you appear to be implying that all systems are bad , all parliaments are bad , so we in the yookay need to stick with what we know. I disagree. I repeat again why do so many Scots in your opinion prefer Holyrood , warts and all , to westminster , if all parliaments and electoral systems are equally crap? Why are there only a tiny minority of countries wishing to use FPTP around the world , when a large amount use forms of PR , and the few countries that do use FPTP like the uk multi national UK state are also unsurprisingly among the most politically unstable? If a large amount of English want to vote smaller parties like reform , or UKIP , why is it when millions do , they get little to no political representation , but under pr , it would be more representative of their vote? |
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Post by thomas on May 10, 2024 7:50:08 GMT
I bet you have never even heard of professor John Curtice. Islamists. islamists everywhere. It's OK, I can see you're incapable of thinking for yourself, which is why you're mimicking Labour's TTL.  Also, you're openly anti-English semi-Irish and not even a real Scot. Ok rebirth. So im a labour supporting anti English Irish islamist from govan? lol. lol . you are a fantastic example of introducing IQ tests to qualify people to vote. |
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Post by Deleted on May 10, 2024 7:53:50 GMT
It's OK, I can see you're incapable of thinking for yourself, which is why you're mimicking Labour's TTL. Also, you're openly anti-English semi-Irish and not even a real Scot. Ok rebirth. So im a labour supporting anti English Irish islamist from govan? lol. lol . you are a fantastic example of introducing IQ tests to qualify people to vote. If you say so. The thing is, I have a first class honours degree and came top of my group in the final computer science project. I studied for four years. Programmers generally have a high level of intelligence to assist in problem solving. It's why I can easily see through you. What do you have? Oh right, an Irish and Argentina football shirt.
I am eager to learn and can adapt. I accept that I am not as politically knowledgable as some others, like Pacifico. This acceptance tones down my arrogance and furthers my quest for knowledge. My persona is just that, a persona, which, coincidently, exposes people like you. It isn't just me who sees through you either. There are real Scots on this forum who I admire and learn from.
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Post by Pacifico on May 10, 2024 11:10:34 GMT
What policies from the Scottish Government do you feel have been a success? Will that do anything to further debate on this topic , except to expose our already visible personal political views? I will say I approve of policy like ending right to buy , you will say potentially enacting Brexit , and so on. Many policies are good , some bad. No governance is perfect .However , we are talking about parliaments , and systems of electing that parliament , and comparing it with the tired stale feudal style Westminster governance , and you appear to be implying that all systems are bad , all parliaments are bad , so we in the yookay need to stick with what we know. I disagree. I'm not implying anything - simply pointing out that the quality of governance under PR is no different from FPTP. You highlight Housing Policy as a success story - well given the record numbers on the waiting list, the poor standard of existing stock and the fall in new build social housing, I'd suggest that Scotlands record is no different from anywhere else in the country. |
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Post by bancroft on May 10, 2024 12:39:43 GMT
Like in Scotland?, look how well that turned out, having lunatic minority anywhere near Government results in a terrible mess. I think the last thing we need is a "progressive" thinking party, unless you wish to give power to deviants and eco maniacs of course. But far less of a mess than when you have a lunatic majority. Does the name Liz Truss ring any bells, other than alarm bells across global financial markets? Heck, Johnson was only saved from being revealed as the swivel-eyed loon he clearly is by having to reign in the lunacy and deal with Covid. A Johnson majority unrestrained by the perils of Covid would have been almost as much of a disaster as Truss was. All The Best That came from a US state official who supports a leader with a penchant for sniffing young girls, in any other previous generation he would have been labelled a pervert. |
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Post by ProVeritas on May 10, 2024 20:02:42 GMT
But that is no different from FPTP - those that vote for the majority party that gets into power tend to be happier than those that don't. I'm talking about the quality of governance - and by no stretch of the imagination could anyone claim that governance in Scotland has been better than anywhere else in the UK. We Scots are best placed to judge the merits of devolution and our own parliament compared to your uk parliament at Westminster where we can judge the governance of both over the last quarter of a century. So why is it in poll after poll , vote after vote , over the last 25 years , Scots prefer Holyrood to WestminsterThe Scots are racist toward the English? I mean that explains it, and having lived in Scotland for 4 years I can assure you anyone claiming that there is not a significant vein of Anti-English Racism in Scotland is either a liar or delusional. All The Best |
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Also, you're openly anti-English semi-Irish and not even a real Scot.
