This thread is designed to explain to you how the unionists feel about Alba.
We have attached an article at the end of this thread from a unionist perspective on the voting system at Holyrood.
This article (at the end of this thread) demonstrates their serious concerns about losing List Seats.
It is not a unique article; most unionists with knowledge of how the Scottish parliamentary voting system works are worried about the prospect of a Referendum being significantly speeded up because of the tactical voting of Independence supporters.
Unionists recognise that in 2011 their sleepy approach to voting meant the SNP swept through to victory.
After the 2014 Indyref & the appointment of SNP MP’s in large numbers to Westminster in 2015, unionists worked to “max the unionist vote” by virtue of tactical methods.
Labour literally helped the Tories and vice versa.
In other words, they ‘gamed’ the system to ensure the 2016 election rewarded the unionist efforts. In fact, they were helped in this regard by the SNP, who decided on a voting tactic now known as #BothVotesSNP.
This method essentially handed the unionists their List Seats. They were helped by this process. SNP supporters with no knowledge of the voting system were inadvertently handing unionists seats in our parliament.
Let’s not make this mistake again.
We can maximise the Yes votes by analysing the areas where tactical voting will work for the Independence movement.
We are pro-Independence & seek it as quickly as possible, & certainly before our country is wrecked by Westminster rule.
This is what the unionists fear; genuine pro-Yes support which equates to a reduction in their numbers. Please think carefully when voting.
When @jeremycorbyn first got into power as @UKLabour Leader, many people were energised. Indeed, he brought a new and dynamic force to Labour & to politics.
In Scotland, many people who had said “Labour left us, we didn’t leave Labour” felt some sense of reward for their (2)
(2) decades of loyalty to Labour. Then they realised that @scottishlabour were charlatans who would stoop so low that they would combine with Tories to promote a Tory/Labour council pact. Then we had the start of @jeremycorbyn lying about Scotland. First he decided to (3)
(3) suggest that Scotland had not tackled poverty and that the SNP were not governing properly in areas such as education and the NHS. Many of us showed him that Wales, under Labour, was in a real state compared to Scotland - generally performing the best in this “U.K.” (4)