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Putting aside any preferences I have. Looking at the current climate and what is happening. Forbes playing a pivotal role in Swinney's government, which regardless of what he does, isn't going to perform anywhere near as strongly as the previous two incarnations. So getting experience in more difficult times is a net benefit for her. When/if things turn then is the time for her to put her vision forward for independence. Everyone seems to have a plan of just do my own thing and we're there. It sounds fanciful , and at the moment we're on an ebb not a rising tide.

Exactly. Fortunately she is smarter than social media NPC's.

Separate but equal policy isn't equality.

The point still stands if they won't switch their vote. I want Forbes to run and win. Although not because I think she will a miracle worker, but to show the opposite of that. It's done for now. There isn't a mechanism to independence that isn't through permission by the UK goverment. I'd like to see what she does, what ideas she has. She might be smart to wait it out a bit, get her family up a bit. Get a cabinet position in Swinney's government and take it from there.

What's that first graph? Net favourability by age group then has rural and urban? I do agree they appeal to different parts within the party and definitely outwith. Liking someone more but never switching to a yes vote doesn't do much. I don't have a twitter account so I can't really see what these mean.

I just read about it 25 minutes ago. I had no idea. I'm ill and avoiding doing anything of use. So decided to see what news i have missed in the last 3 months. I thought it was an april fools joke to start with Murray.

Folk were raring to go off the back of Sturgeon, before all the mess hit. Now it is a poisoned challice , folk might moan about Swinney but he might be the only one really wanting to do the job.

Maybe the TAMB can prevail where modern biological taxonomy has failed. I've always liked this exchange about the subject.

I see Craig Murray has joined George Galloways party.

What's the answer to what is a "woman" by the way? Or indeed what is a "man". Since there is obviously a right and wrong answer.

2 out of 4 leaders is not bad.

The whole point of representative democracy is that we have representatives who are embodied with the will of their constituents. Who then vote on things. So when the majority of the parliament votes on something then you have the "preferred direction of travel of the majority of citizens" . Rather than polling everyone about everything all the time. However whipping up a moral crisis and engaging in culture wars is a political tactic. As we've seen here on how folk think it is of such importance it should be the first question asked. Personally I hope Forbes have the same faith in herself as others do and takes the job cause then we're going to see how little difference it makes, when sh'e suddenly under the spotlight in a completely unfair way.

How do you ascertain the "preferred direction of travel of the majority of citizens"? More poll data about the election. https://www.ipsos.com/en-uk/john-swinney-preferred-snp-voters-wider-public-more-likely-say-kate-forbes-would-be-best-first-minister

So we shouldn't have a leader that follows a dogma?

I'm not sure how more likely they are but it wont even be 1 order of magnitude more. I'm trying to get some information on voter turnout stratified by age but can't find anything, bar 16-17 year olds had almost 80% in one tracked election. It dipped after that: https://www.sps.ed.ac.uk/sites/default/files/assets/doc/Votes at 16 in Scotland.pdf You also have to adjust who they vote for too though if we're going to actually run the maths on it. 2021 election 16-34 had 58% for SNP 5% for others (green,alba etc) 55+ had 38% for SNP 0% for other. So younger folk are 50+% more likely to vote for SNP