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Conor Matchett

7 May, 9 tweets, 6 min read

@TheScotsman

If you're following me, it is likely you want to be kept fully up to speed on the Holyrood election results.

The best place to do that is on @TheScotsman's website, here's what is on offer:

A live blog, updated constantly throughout the day:
scotsman.com/news/uk-news/s…

For those of a visual mind, we have a constituency map which will tell you in an instant who has won your seat and regional list votes:

scotsman.com/news/politics/…

We also have a fully searchable table of results which, as it is updated during the day, will give you the details of who has won, by how much, and what the swing has been:

scotsman.com/news/politics/…

@AlexofBrown

At 12pm, join @AlexofBrown, @janekbradley and I on a livestream talking all things election, with expected cameos from @wornoutmumhack and @ianswansonen live from the counts in Glasgow and Edinburgh

scotsman.com/news/politics/…

Our site will be updated throughout the day with the latest news and analysis, but for now, here's a primer for the days ahead

scotsman.com/news/politics/…

Here's a look at what the polls said over the course of the campaign:

scotsman.com/news/politics/…

And our front page splash:

scotsman.com/news/politics/…

You can get access to all of this and more as part of a Scotsman subscription, currently with 25% off as part of an election special offer:

scotsman.com/news/politics/…

@wornoutmumhack

Follow all of our team covering the election over the coming days, including (but not limited to!) @wornoutmumhack, @AlexofBrown, @janekbradley, @conormarls, @MartynMcL, @ianswansonen, @janderson_news, @alicampsie75, @liv_mcmahon, and many more.

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Conor Matchett

@conor_matchett

8 May

IndyRef2, mandate or not?

Three arguments here, that either a) you need an overall SNP majority, b) you need an overall majority in the popular vote, or c) you need an overall parliamentary majority of pro-independence parties. #SP21

The first one seems to be the unionist argument (although I'm sure any mandate would have been rejected regardless). This is based on the basic FPTP system of winner takes all. That's fine, but we have a PR system in Scotland, so those rules don't apply. #SP21

But in reality, if that was the judgement, then the SNP have romped home in FPTP and there is a clear majority of those seats. This argument essentially ignores Green seats as important. #SP21

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@conor_matchett

23 Feb

Couple of thoughts on the Salmond debacle today.

1) I think there was a genuine error in publishing in full his ministerial code submission. I felt there were aspects of it I expected to be redacted, it wasn't *that* shocking the Crown got involved

2) The decision to publish, then remove, redact and republish is in my view more damaging to the anonymity of the complainants than anything else this inquiry has done up until now.

That was a serious error of judgement.

3) There should be an inquiry of some sort into the way this has been handle (I know, I know), and if it possible, a way to give Holyrood a similar level of parliamentary privilege to Westminster.

Without that, this issue is going to recur for as long as the parliament is about

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