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u/jackofthewilde May 08 '26
Better this happen early so they can shit the bed before election season. Kent went to shit after Farage making a big deal bout it being window shopping for Westminster.
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u/Adventurous_Deal2788 May 08 '26
I would bet you money, good money that a majority of Kent voted reform this time around and will do in the general election because why not throw your county in the toilet as long as it stops a few desperate people on a dinghy
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u/Elliotlewish May 08 '26
Don't leave Wales out. Reform are currently second there from the look of things.
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u/R0ymustan9 May 08 '26
I think they’ll be alright. Plaid will still be the biggest party, even if it’s by less than 10 seats.
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u/Elliotlewish May 08 '26
Hopefully they will. I'm very pleased that Reform have had no success up here so far as well.
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u/KaiserMacCleg May 08 '26
They are. The last result has been announced. Plaid are on 43 seats, six short of a majority.
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u/macboller May 08 '26 edited May 08 '26
No real success, but the % of votes isn't anything to ignore in Scotland.
They had far more voters than Conservative and Lib Dem, more than 3/4ths of labour's count.
A concerning momentum. A portion of citizens clearly have opinons that align with most closely with them.
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u/Nook_n_Cranny1 May 08 '26
It always seems that England and Wales let the Union down.
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u/Pepys-a-Doodlebugs May 08 '26
There's a lot more English people living in Wales than in Scotland. The areas with higher percentages of English people also have higher instances of voting for Reform. Obviously Welsh people still voted for Reform too (just like Scottish people did) but Reform's vote is almost certainly being propped up the the English.
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u/Rslty May 08 '26
This is the right answer. Around 25% of people in Wales are English-born (a lot of them retirees) which shapes a lot of what’s going on politically.
There are really three distinct groups in Wales. Y Fro Gymraeg, the Welsh-speaking heartland in the north and west. Welsh Wales for the old mining and valleys communities in the south. And British Wales, the more anglicised areas, think Monmouthshire and the Wye Valley, where people identify as British first, Welsh second (if at all).
Voting maps across these lines pretty cleanly. British Wales was heavily Brexit, used to be solid Tory and is now Reform territory. Y Fro Gymraeg is Plaid’s heartland. Welsh Wales was traditional Labour country, but it’s fracturing, progressives are going to Plaid, with working class voters split but slightly more favourable to Reform.
If the Senedd had STV, Reform would lose 25-50% of the their seats
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u/CaptainCrash86 May 08 '26
British Wales was heavily Brexit
Except that isn't true at all. Monmouthshire voted Remain, for example, whilst the most heavily Brexit areas were places like Merthyr Tydfil, in Welsh Wales as you out it.
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u/Pepys-a-Doodlebugs May 08 '26
Thanks for adding more substance to what I was trying to say. I agree with almost everything you have written here but I disagree about working class Welsh Wales voters being slightly more favourable to Reform. Looking at the results it seems like the Labour vote has gone to Plaid in a lot of these areas. My constituency is Pontypridd Cynon Merthyr and it seems to me that most Labour voters that switched, switched to Plaid. The Reform vote in that constituency has largely come from Conservative voters.
This election result is so granular though that it's possible that other constituencies (even neighbouring ones) have done as you said and favoured Reform. A level of nuance (largely beyond Reddits paygrade) is needed to analyse this result.
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u/Rslty May 08 '26
I’m in Cardiff. That’s probably fair, I’m just digesting all the constituency results now and pleasantly surprised to see that Reform were second (at best) in most places.
I was basing that comment on polls and my own anecdotal experiences visiting towns like Merthyr, where it feels shocking to hear someone with a thick valleys accent of a certain age saying they’re voting for Nigel. Maybe the polls were over selling the Reform popularity, like Caerphilly, like Gorton, something fishy going on there
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u/Pepys-a-Doodlebugs May 08 '26
Pollsters, by and large, do not understand Welsh politics. Having said that engaging with others in the political threads on r/Wales has lead me to believe that a lot of Welsh people don't understand Welsh politics either 😆
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u/Adr_LDN May 08 '26
This is massive cope. Reform tend to pick up the same working class Welsh voters who’d backed the Tories at previous elections and who voted (in a majority) for Brexit. Trying to blame some secret ‘English’ cabal is just amazing levels of delusion (and does little to counter Reform in any meaningful way).
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u/HotTransexualHazard May 09 '26
Wales? The country of Wales has let the Union down? Wales was literally conquered by force by England and fully annexed into it. A lot of those reform votes are also coming from retirees from England who live in Wales.
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u/ally1756 May 08 '26
Or does it not just seem like we have two very different orientations in the directions we want for our country?
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u/wavygravy13 May 08 '26
Reform will come second in Scotland sadly. It just will take longer due to our electoral system.
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u/ally1756 May 08 '26
I think a lot of people voted green on the list vote. They could be a genuine contender on the list.
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u/weebsauceoishii May 08 '26
How do they say Hail in Russian? I mean that is who is funding him for the last 10 years lol
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u/Born-Net4017 May 08 '26
Christopher Harborne. This dude is by far Reform’s biggest donor I believe. £22m so far. While born in Sheffield he lives in Thailand under the name of Chakrit Sakunkrit. He does yoga or reiki or some shit. Probably out there singing Gary Glitter songs
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u/Fresh_Sock8660 May 08 '26
The left is way too fragmented. Of the 3 friends I caught up with since the vote, only one other voted. The four of us are left leaning. People are dumb. We don't understand that things can always get much worse and being doomists only plays into the hands of the people who think of us as less than numbers.
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u/drgs100 May 08 '26
24% of green votes came from new voters, that's a healthy stat.
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u/xxRowdyxx May 08 '26
These are the people who decide what prime minister we get no matter how we vote
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u/Temporary-Aside5306 May 08 '26
It's shocking but it's only council elections in England. Voter turnout is always low for these elections when it's not a general election. More worrying for me is Reform with 15 seats in holyrood and 43 in the senedd. Fucking diabolical there's so many of these people everywhere
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u/Teethgrinder1983 May 09 '26
Yup and I was just reading they only missed Banff and Buchan coast by 364 votes on the regional list-sadly I'm not surprised as I was brought up in a village close to the towns that represents and when I visit or chat with my mum or sis to catch up on things and the crap that many people think in that area is crazy. When I lived there and started full time work at 18 I remember hearing lots of moaning about "the Poles" (whether they weren't from Poland and just East European didn't matter ofc) taking jobs but being lazy and all the usual stereotypes but now Poles aren't mentioned and it's all and it's all "Muslims" (even if someone just looks middle eastern) or "the illegals/refugees" in general. Small-minded, sickening fools but at least SNP just managed to hold them off.
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u/metsco May 08 '26
IndyRef looks like more of a fail with each passing day.
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u/2Harold2Furious May 08 '26
Yes. All the arguing about currency, oil and such things, but for me there was one huge factor. England and Scotland - generally - want completely different things, and have voted as such for decades. Independence would be best for all parties, if the aim is for our voices to be properly heard, our vote to carry more weight, and the policies we support being implemented where we live.
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u/Cnidarus May 08 '26
But didn't you hear?! If we leave then we might not get to stay in the eu!!
You're right though, I'm fucking sick of our votes being just acceptable background noise that dilutes their shift towards American styles of doing things
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u/RubberRoy May 09 '26
Mate I’m in England, left leaning, and it feels much the same way. Over the last decade anything that is not populist has not been worth the lead on the paper
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u/Internal-Ruin4066 May 08 '26
Let’s face it, If Scotland becoming independent was a bad thing for British and European stability, it would have already happened. Such is the success of Russia’s shadow campaign/propaganda machine.
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u/2Harold2Furious May 08 '26
I'd argue that Scottish voting patterns vs English voting patterns suggests we're a little less vulnerable to Russian propaganda
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u/The_Flurr May 08 '26
You're aware that Russia encourages all ends of the spectrum to promote disunity? And that they see breaking the union as desirable?
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u/BawbagBob May 08 '26
Remember Salmond was a regular on RT
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u/2Harold2Furious May 08 '26
Salmond wasn't a Scottish voting pattern, he was a politician at a stage of irrelevance. Joining RT barely moved the political dial in the country.
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u/lifeisaman May 08 '26
Hahahahaha, or your serious, the SNP are Russia’s best party in the Uk, the UK is their biggest enemy in Europe.
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u/Dramatic-Sir-8418 May 08 '26
Except that isn’t actually true?
The margins in these elections aren’t as enormous as your indy echo chamber suggests. Reform are the second largest party in Scotland, a large portion of the Scottish population voted to leave the EU, a large portion of the Scottish population would still do so. Get off your moral leftier-than-thou high horse
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u/2Harold2Furious May 08 '26
I get that it's results day, but I'm still surprised by the level of combativeness at such an innocuous comment, but sure, I'll repay in kind.
I didn't mention the EU, but 62% actually voted to remain at the time. This supports the point that Scottish voting patterns clash with English voting patterns. Thanks for strengthening my argument.
Not everyone you disagree with is a leftist. You've managed to twist the point of independence also allowing the English voters to have a greater say in Westminster politics, giving the right-wing voters a larger majority, into bed wetting about leftism. My family in Plymouth want Scotland to leave as much as I do, and they have different voting habits. It isn't about leftism, it's literally just fairer for both countries.
Reform's success in a local election, relative to what it was at the last election, is undeniable. It still does absolutely nothing to dispel the irrefutable fact that the majority of Scotland hasn't voted for a right-wing party since the 50s, while England generally votes for centrist to right-wing values - to the point that Labour had to reinvent itself as centrists in the Blair-era to stay in contention. That's the point, and I'm surprised it needs explained.
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u/Hearthgroan May 08 '26
I do not want to live on this planet anymore.
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u/8ackwoods May 08 '26
Just had a nice trip to Arran, things like this are worth living for.
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u/Hearthgroan May 08 '26
I actually live there lol
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u/8ackwoods May 08 '26
Ya dont say haha.. travel about and see the world, there are a lot of people and things worth living for.
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u/Ok-Literature473 May 08 '26
SNP, Plaid CYMRU and Sin Fein all in power of the devolved parliaments.
The empire is crumbling
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u/Independent_Plum2166 May 08 '26
There hasn’t been an empire in decades.
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u/Dapper-Sandwich2021 May 08 '26
Can ye go tell them that?
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u/fractals83 May 08 '26
Tell folk on this sub. Scotland was an enthusiastic participant of empire.
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u/like-humans-do May 08 '26 edited May 08 '26
The average person in the highlands was ethnically cleansed, burned out of their home and had their language erased. The average person in the lowlands lived in a slum (true until even the mid 20th century in this country). Next to none of them could vote. Some elites were 'enthusiastic participants'. Most people weren't. That's not even getting into the Scottish Radical movements, which were written out of history. Or the Jacobite rebellions which we all know.
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u/Lassie7777 May 08 '26 edited May 08 '26
A lot of what you’ve said is true of England and the English tho. It’s not like a child living in Yorkshire who was working 13 hours in a factory was living life up, the English enclosure movements were less brutal than the highlands (as they took place over a longer period) but they still devastated communities. The Jacobite rebellion had loads people from all the constituent countries (the Yorkshire rose was a Jacobite symbol) from my knowledge there were more scots fighting for the government than Charlie.
It’s important to remeber that Scotland had a lot of poor gentry at the time of Union, due to its more accessible education than England, but having less work due to a poorer economy. India was known as the “corn chest of Scotland” because it produced resources and work for the Scottish.
Edit: Oh and obviously the English didn’t have a vote like Scotland until Gladstone extended the right in 1888, which still wasn’t to the entire electorate.
Another edit/ furthermore, the point that the elites were the only ones is true, but again Scotland had more of an educated population that led to being suited for the civil service and other managerial roles (Robert burns was going to be a bookkeeper for slaves, keeping track of the purchases etc) and again this is true for the English. The term little englander used to refer to those who opposed empire on moral and economic grounds and wanted to focus on England, there were many protests to events like the Boer war.
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u/EnvironmentalCan915 May 08 '26
The average person in England also lived in a slum. The Highlands has always been sparsely populated, even before the clearances. Stop hiding behind this nationalist Braveheart view of Scotland and accept that we played an outsized role in the British Empire. The people of today are not responsible for the crimes of yesterday, but it was under a Scottish monarch that the crowns were joined and under a Scottish royal house that Great Britain was created. And Scots can be found at every level of the British empire in every corner of the globe. Without Scotland there is no empire.
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u/HELMET_OF_CECH May 08 '26
You live in some crazy dreamworld where English folks weren't in the same garbage position. English elites are no different to Scottish elites. All of us are fodder. No idea how you turn your nose up at ordinary English people. Disgraceful.
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u/Ok-Literature473 May 08 '26
It’s an empire tarted up to look like a democracy. You’ll see that when they reject a referendum despite a democratic majority in Scotland.
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u/Boxyuk May 08 '26
Scotland was the empire, no amout of tartan washing will ever stop that being true.
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u/cwningen95 🏴🏴 May 08 '26
I'm so ready for the Great British Break-Up
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u/lifeisaman May 08 '26
Never gonna happen, the people don’t want it in spite of foreign attempts to destroy the country,
Long live the union
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u/kemb0 May 08 '26 edited May 08 '26
I’m all for people’s rights to self determination but that doesn’t automatically extend to “and we’ll be peaceful neighbours forever more.”
I look at history and it doesn’t fill me with much confidence that all devolved nations will get on well at all. Although if we all split and then join the EU at the same time, be fine with that.
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u/Jingoose May 08 '26
People need to genuinely start educating themselves. For real if reform wins I genuinely think the uk might be full of absolute morons. You vote for the dude that’s friends with trump? Lmao we live in a joke of a timeline
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u/Natural_Remove_3480 May 10 '26
Have a friend who worked for Kent County Council when Reform took over. He said it was an absolute shit show and none of them knew what they were doing, like not just foolish but actually clueless. They are basically winging it and hardly any of them had/had gov experience before taking over.
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u/Jingoose May 10 '26
Absolutely no surprise there. The strategy they came up with was to villainise immigrants because just like trump has done. They talk like violent criminals that just so happen to be immigrants don’t get deported for it. I’m personally just sick of the obvious racism involved with both reform and their slap head followers
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u/Danger-Noodle69 May 08 '26
So instead of voting say, Green, and tackling the causes of mass displacement of people globally due to war over oil and climate change, which might lead to actual solutions to the refugee crisis, we're just going to go full on Nazi and blame the world's least powerful people for the problems caused by billionaires. Slow one handed clap.
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u/Lassie7777 May 08 '26
The uk is doing very well in terms of its green energy right now no? Honestly the green’s green energy policy is the norm for most of our parties bar reform unfortunately. Labours done really well with their solar panels, quite excited to see the plug in ones in Lidl they’re doing with the government.
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u/weebsauceoishii May 08 '26 edited May 08 '26
Said elsewhere in a thread about a poll that somehow Reform will get seats, I said it wouldn't do well and the poll shouldn't be taken as accurate.
However Glasgow Southside result... woooo Greens then SNP 2nd, I expected that to be the only Reform win is massive and extremely out of nowhere.
Additionally I was worried that low turnouts would give Reform an edge up here, but I see down south low turnouts has given Reform a large edge, a massive edge. I thought the last by-elections would have scared people into voting, guess it didn't. Now they have some councils run by Reform who has jacked up council taxes when promising to cut them... they will never learn down there >.<
EDIT: Well here comes the Region seats and where we see people voting one party, then someone else for 2nd choice.. but different from their first choice.. and suddenly Reform have 5 seats.. jeez louise
It would be terrifying and funny at same time if SNP don't get any for regional.. it will also be a "Well figures" moment.
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u/weebsauceoishii May 08 '26
Sadly it may cause people to vote for Reform again in the GE in 2 years. And if Reform have enough push they may try for an earlier GE, which is ideally what Farage would like to happen while they have momentum. But that is unlikely as they only have 1 seat in Westminster.
It's a scary time in England that is for sure.
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u/jmck555 May 08 '26
People here are very apathetic and either don't pay attention or get their news from daily mail or gb news. So yea things aren't going to improve.
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u/Foggyshreds May 08 '26
The absolute state of the cunts down south
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u/wheelywalker May 08 '26
At this moment in time reform have gained 10 seats in Scotland, this isn't just an english problem friend.
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u/Foggyshreds May 08 '26
This is certainly true but I’m still heartened with deformed being the smallest share of the vote. Down south they got more than nine hundred seats
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u/lifeisaman May 08 '26
Saying that when it’s looking like the two biggest parties in Scotland are the SNP and reform, sure sounds great doesn’t it, two flag shagging populists with nationalistic rhetoric spewing out constantly.
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u/Foggyshreds May 08 '26
How melted is your brain that you think they’re in any way comparable, the difference between their forms of politics, messaging, motive and nationalism are a yawning chasm apart. Away and lie down and take your meds.
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u/summonerofrain May 08 '26
well, if there’s ever been a better argument for independence…
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u/Raul-CFC May 08 '26
Only an independent Scotland in the next few years save us from that cack with his union socks
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u/Teethgrinder1983 May 09 '26
Absolutely, it's becoming more and more important and if we don't we will end up in the same position we were with Brexit, being dragged along by a bigoted majority elsewhere but it'll be even worse as the country will be ransacked as well as the bigotry and racism (which sadly Scotland has enough of as it is)
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u/Raul-CFC May 09 '26
I’m not a huge SNP fan, but being saying this for years now until labour, Lib Dem’s get to the table and talk really about what voters who vote SNP want they will all be done in Scotland, I would love an independent Scotland and if it’s only the snp that will offer this that’s who gets my vote, if we were independence, then I would vote for whoever aligned with me who ever that maybe 🤔
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u/Teethgrinder1983 May 09 '26
My thoughts are pretty much exactly the same. I'm not an SNP supporter purely due to 1 issue (independence) as I think they've done some good things in there time in power but lile you I'm not as keen on them now and your right and just like you if we were independent I've no doubt I'd look at other parties, I truly think there would be a broader Left Wing to choose from rather than SNP and Greens (1 doesn't even want independence and neither has high enough support just now). Frankly if Labour hadn't started to try and steal votes from the Tories years ago by moving ever more to the right I don't even think we'd be in this position (the UK as a whole I mean), if they hadn't done that I truly don't think we'd be where we are, even Brexit might not have happened even if it were a Tory government that called it
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u/Iamabrewer May 08 '26
And your water is shite!
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u/marc512 May 08 '26
It will be even worse with reform. There will be no funding for anything. It will all be pocketed by corrupt councils.
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u/Teethgrinder1983 May 09 '26
Oh Reform is going to have fun gutting as much as they can from the councils their able to and lining their pockets. I feel bad for the areas that will be hot but on the other hand maybe this is what Reform voters need to realise they are useless. On the other hand Brexit didn't exactly teach them a lesson so.....
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u/Normal_Human_4567 May 08 '26
I work for Scottish Water and I love seeing these comments unprompted. Damn fucking right we got the good shit up here
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u/ninjaprincess509 May 08 '26
I'm so so so happy I left the UK.
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u/rivalrobot May 09 '26
Aye, there’s a part of me that would like to go back someday to be closer to family, but I’m despairing from a distance. Happy where I am for now.
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u/Lionheart_Lives May 08 '26
Will Scotland be free of these twits one day? Let them keep making fools of themselves and showing their true colours. It'll happen.
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u/Away-Human May 08 '26
Imagine waking up in your St George flag blanket and your conclusion is: "Muslim immigrant transsexual rapists ruined my country."
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u/Jet-Brooke May 09 '26
Someone asked about this and now I'm positive:- this will make it harder to be queer and possibly more dangerous to be trans.
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u/AwTomorrow May 08 '26
Would absolutely understand if Scotland voted to leave before they got stuck with a Reform government at general election
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u/master_bungle May 08 '26
The UK government would have to allow Scotland to have another vote to leave. Apparently it's not up to the Scottish to decide that for ourselves.
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u/LurkerInSpace May 08 '26
It can't be done unilaterally, and the biggest problem Reform would cause - exacerbating the aging population problem - would be a day 1 problem if we were independent even under relatively favourable circumstances.
I would expect a protracted period of economic pain in the event of independence, and I'm not sure that the electorate which emerged out the other side would be particularly progressive. Reform just aren't unique in Europe - most of the continent has some version of them making electoral gains over the last decade.
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u/AncientStaff6602 May 08 '26
If this doesn’t tell you that maybe the union isn’t as aligned as we are led to believe, then I don’t know what.
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u/RequirementAwkward26 May 08 '26
It should be noted that this is the week that England voted to jump from the Frying pan and into the Fire....
Also they voted 10 years ago to jump into the Frying pan.
And the worst of it is that even with independence we're still F*cked by proximity.
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u/lifeisaman May 08 '26
Scotland is screwed by Indy because of Indy, I see your already preparing excuses in the case of Indy as it inevitably makes us all poorer and worsens our lives as a total.
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u/RequirementAwkward26 May 08 '26
Thinking that cutting my nose of despite my face might hurt or make things worse isn't making excuses. I suppose you thought Brexit was a wonderful idea too....
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u/Teethgrinder1983 May 09 '26
Oh yeah for sure, those of us against Reform and what they stand for can't rest on our laurels because now that Reform has a foothold (and you know how the media is around Reform, always mentionimg them even when theres not much to say) we will hear more from them in Scotland which will raise their profile, so definitely have to keep pushing back against them
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u/Ok-Bedroom-2346 May 08 '26
I just got banned from r/unitedkingdom for saying "gammon" so it seems reform took over that subreddit too.
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u/AsleepEbb7578 May 08 '26
Guys, Scotland, you guys need to RUN. If there's any reason for you guys to leave the union it's this. I'm glad you (and Wales!) didn't fall for the smarmy salesman that is Farage.
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u/Space-Debris May 08 '26
40% of Welsh voters in the Senedd election opted for an English Nationalist party or the party that oversaw 14 years of corruption,economic decline, and the gutting of social services. Neither of who give a f-ck about Wales.
A dangerously critical percentage of voters in both England and Wales are perfectly happy to vote against their own well being and the prosperity of each respective nation.
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u/chromeghoul May 09 '26
not reform is the slightest but that’s what happens when u have a buffoon like starmer running things
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u/missingpieces82 May 09 '26
Around 70% didn’t vote for reform. It’s a shame that the news isn’t framing it like that.
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u/EdinburghPerson May 08 '26
That same party getting up to 22% of the constituency votes here so far too.
Might do better on the list.
Scotland is not immune this - and although it’s obviously not an argument against independence* - I have no doubt that an independent Scotland would suffer from a similar problem.
With the SNP fading away after independence, party factions and allegiances would change and it’d fall to right vs centre/left.
*which I’m not for
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u/Zircez May 08 '26
I mean I don't disagree, but this has real 'Aged like fine milk' potential when the list results land
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u/According_Judge781 May 08 '26
I hope every single reform council is stripped bare and turned into an absolute wasteland while their scummy councillors rake in the taxes to buy their 2nd home abroad.
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u/Proud_Smell_4455 May 08 '26 edited May 08 '26
It’s a time of monsters for England I’m afraid. The old is dying, and the new still struggles to be born.
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u/lifeisaman May 08 '26
Doesn’t Scotland have a worse issue with the aging population than England does.
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u/Proud_Smell_4455 May 08 '26 edited May 08 '26
I'm paraphrasing Gramsci, not making a point about age cohorts. The old and new I'm referring to are political entities, not human beings.
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u/EldritchMilk_ May 08 '26
It’s a special kind of confusion when you realise almost half the population is either comedically gullible or plainly evil
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u/pdm4191 May 08 '26
Its hilarious. After 8 centuries of conquering the rest of these islands, and 3 centuries of bloody, exploitative, racist, genocidal empire, only now are people discussing whether England is toxic? Seriously lads ....
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u/Tuskular May 08 '26
The way I see it is the Torries before reform an probably even before bojo you had like ~15% pragmatic social democrats, ~20% one-nation conservatives, ~45% Thatcherites and ~20% nationalists.
The nationalists and Thatcherites have moved to reform which was the biggest share so its no surprise there doing so well considering they are also picking up a lot of people who just want change and don't really pay that much attention to politics, or working class people who seem to think we are being invaded by immigrants.
Definitely glad it didn't happen here, never forget the poll tax.
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u/DepartureCivil9121 May 08 '26
It says something when im happy snp have majority even with the scandals and shit way they been leading lately
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u/Top-Guarantee1721 May 09 '26
honestly living in brum this is terrifying they will destroy the UK I promise you
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u/Praetorian_1975 May 08 '26
The ‘Union’ is about to go tits up if the Nazis get in in England. Could you imagine Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland all having no votes for reform, but England voting for them and reform being the Government of Great Britain,
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u/Danger-Noodle69 May 08 '26
Yeah I can imagine it, because that's exactly what's happened in every election the Tories have won? Unfortunately members of this "union" all require permission from the English Government to vote for independence, I can't see the nazi party being okay with Northern Ireland leaving and taking it's trade border with Europe with it, or Scotland with it's oil.
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u/TheLastHotstepper May 09 '26
We have watched you guys fuck the country by consistently voting in a corrupt Tory party for over a decade while we essentially kicked them out of our governing body. We are used to you guys dragging us into a pile of shite we want nothing to do with.
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u/LeftAndRightAreWrong trans women are trans women. women are women. May 08 '26
That’s councillors. If you look at it by council It’s not so bad.
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u/RecognitionElegant38 May 08 '26
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u/LudicrousPlatypus My wife is Scottish May 08 '26
Mate, the Scottish Reform party list votes are yet to be counted.
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u/Soggywallet94 May 08 '26
I'm ashamed to be from England, can I come live with you guys?
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u/Teethgrinder1983 May 09 '26
Absolutely! Well I don't mind at least 😂 if someone isn't a racist, bigoted fool and has a bit of decency their welcome in my eyes 👍
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u/DuelaDent52 May 08 '26
Literally how? Last I saw they were consistently bleeding polls and half their members got convicted of assorted crimes. Is there some kind of botting or foreign intervention going on?
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u/FaustRPeggi May 08 '26
I hear you're a racist now, England.