An exiled New Scot blogging and tweeting anent Scottish indy and Brexit. Follow @TMWidmann for Danish stuff, and @datlingen for linguistics.
Jul 6 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
So many people are talking about introducing PR (#ProportionalRepresentation) after the #GE2024 election, so here's a concrete suggestion, loosely modelled on the system used in Denmark. Let's call it Sainte-Laguë with personal votes. 1/(1) Keep the constituencies as they are, but group them. As an example, let's group the 6 Glasgow constituencies together with Rutherglen and Coatbridge & Bellshill, so 8 in total. 2/
May 5, 2019 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
Scottish public discourse has probably always been more direct (and yes, using more swear words) than its English counterpart. It doesn't mean people are underlying nastier, and you know that if you've stayed in Scotland for a while. 1/n
In the days on MSM, they followed the English model, but Scottish culture never died out, and social media is allowing Scots to debate in a Scottish fashion, which means that Scottish Twitter can be a very sweary place. 2/n
