Scottish by election - a Labour landslide

[GrannyMac]

Oops.  Is this the beginning of the end for the SNP?

https://news.sky.com/story/snp-loses-rutherglen-and-hamilton-west-seat-in-spectacular-fashion-12977945

[dextrous63]

Think I'll await Raven's view on this.

[klondike]

Bad news for the Westminster Tories.

[Michael Rolls]

perhaps the electors are at last beginning to tire of teh SNP's one track mind and them being in cahoots with the Greens

[klondike]

Time magazine apparently like 'em

"Irony is Dead": Time Puts Humza Yousaf on Cover as "Next Generation Leader" Despite Him Leading Party Towards Disaster

SNP leader Humza Yousaf may be leading his party towards electoral disaster, but Time magazine sees that as no reason not to put him on the cover and laud him as a "next generation leader". The Telegraph has more.

Humza Yousaf may have endured a nightmare start to his tenure as First Minister thanks to the arrest of Nicola Sturgeon and support for the SNP ebbing away in the polls.

But Time magazine has featured Mr. Yousaf on its front cover, lauding him as one of a new generation of "trailblazers shaping the future".

The American magazine's new edition calls him "the new face of Scotland" and lists the 38-year-old among its "rising stars", noting he is the first First Minister from an ethnic minority background.

Among the other "next generation leaders" featured in the magazine were actress Florence Pugh, racing driver Jamie Chadwick, drag queen Pattie Gonia and Ghanaian visual artist Prince Gyasi.

Mr. Yousaf getting his picture on the front of Time is a major publicity coup for the First Minister as he has a much lower profile outside Scotland than Ms. Sturgeon.

However, the magazine's choice of cover raised eyebrows at the Scottish Parliament, especially as it appeared only hours before an expected Labour victory in his first electoral test as SNP leader.


https://dailysceptic.org/2023/10/05/irony-is-dead-time-puts-humza-yousaf-on-cover-as-next-generation-leader-despite-leading-party-towards-disaster/

[Raven]

It's a game of wait and see. In my opinion Labour, like the Tories are as much of British Nationalists as the SNP are Scottish Nationalists.

[klondike]

The problem for the SNP is they seem to be making as bad a job of governing Scotland as the Conservatives are of governing the UK. People want change and only think about away from rather than to whom.

[Raven]

I always used to be a Labour Voter and probably still would be if they had remained as Labour and not changed so much. Up here they are known as either The Red Tories or Tory Lite.

I liked Nicola, she's a good Politician, but I've no time for her replacement. at all.

[klondike]

Labour is not labour of old and the Tories are not the Tories of old. Ignore what either say as the truth is you couldn't put a fag paper between what they do. High tax, big state, balls up everything they touch. 

[JBR]

I always used to be a Labour Voter and probably still would be if they had remained as Labour and not changed so much. Up here they are known as either The Red Tories or Tory Lite.

I liked Nicola, she's a good Politician, but I've no time for her replacement. at all.

Coincidentally, around here the Tories are known as the Blue Socialists.
It is very true, as Klon mentioned, that you can't put a fag paper between the two 'main parties' now.
It matters not, as most people will misguidedly vote for either of them, vainly hoping for some sort of improvement!