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I see a lot of posts about voting SNP 1 & ISP 2 for the GE. This simply won't work. The best route to indy is #BothvotesSNP. In this thread I'll explain my reasoning. (1/14)
It's very unlikely the ISP will get enough votes to win any seats themselves, yet they can take away seats from the SNP. Splitting the vote SNP/Green in 2016 cost the SNP a few list seats, including here in the North East. There would have been an SNP majority if it weren’t (2)
for that vote splitting. It will definitely not work to split the pro-indy vote between even more parties.
The electoral system for Holyrood elections is a proportional one. It's been designed so that the parties get roughly the same proportion of the seats as the (3)
The electoral system for Holyrood elections is a proportional one. It's been designed so that the parties get roughly the same proportion of the seats as the (3)
proportion of votes they had. If we are to have any chance to win independence in a referendum, we should also be able to win a majority in a proportional election. Imagine that the election resulted in 40% votes for pro-indy parties & 60% for unionist parties but due to (4)
people voting one party for the constituency and one for the list, there was a pro-indy majority anyway. In that case Westminster would simply point at the 60% unionist vote saying there is no case to hold a referendum. And quite frankly, they'd have a point. Yet if we get an (5)
SNP majority without the help from other parties in a proportional system it will make it very hard to stop a referendum. Polls are suggesting that majority is exactly what will happen so why harm ourselves by splitting the vote when we can make excellent steps forward? (6)
Also, in looking at the demand for independence WM only ever point to the SNP vote, ignoring other pro-indy voters. Take last year's GE for example. They basically said: "SNP only got 45% of the vote so there has been no change in the demand for independence since 2016". (7)
They completely ignored the Greens and the roughly 35% of Labour voters who support independence. Plus, now Brexit has happened there will be a fair amount of people who voted LD last time who are yes now. Only SNP votes & seats will help the argument for a referendum and (8)
ultimately independence.
People forget that it's just a small minority of people who look at various calculations online and base their vote on it. The vast majority of people don't pay much attention, just vote for what they usually vote for and that's it. Not enough (9)
People forget that it's just a small minority of people who look at various calculations online and base their vote on it. The vast majority of people don't pay much attention, just vote for what they usually vote for and that's it. Not enough (9)
people will vote ISP for them to gain any seats yet there will be enough to stop the SNP from getting seats.
Tactical pacts rarely work. A great example were the different anti-Tory pacts at the GE in England and Wales involving the Greens, LibDems, some independents (10)
Tactical pacts rarely work. A great example were the different anti-Tory pacts at the GE in England and Wales involving the Greens, LibDems, some independents (10)
& Plaid Cymru in the Welsh seats. Parties stood down for each other. It didn't change a single constituency in which they did it because most people who normally vote for any of those 3 parties ended up either not voting when they didn't see their favourite party or vote for (11)
someone else than "advised" as they didn't pay attention to that advice. In some cases it actually resulted in the Tories gaining votes due to other parties not standing rather than them losing it.
Yes, tactical voting did (unfortunately) help the unionists in NE Fife (12)
Yes, tactical voting did (unfortunately) help the unionists in NE Fife (12)
where Tories & Labour voters voted LD to oust the SNP. However, that was a concentrated effort of the unionists all over that one constituency. Holyrood electoral regions are so vast that such an effort is pretty much impossible. On the other hand, if the list vote isn't (13)
split any such efforts in HR constituencies that result in the SNP losing that seat would simply mean we'd gain a list seat instead. And unionists will make such efforts, there can be no doubt about that.
So if you want indy, the answer is simple: #bothvotesSNP! (14/14)
So if you want indy, the answer is simple: #bothvotesSNP! (14/14)
