Scottish Parliament election - 5th May 2016

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UKIP Scotland launched their manifesto today, its especially thin on the ground for actual policies on things that matter.  Basically; a tax cut for those earning over £46,000/year, repealing the public smoking ban in pubs, moving the drink drive limit up to what it was, and apparently pushing councils to provide free town centre parking.  I don't think that its a set of policies that will expand UKIP past their Scottish base.

UKIP - the party of British hedonism.....

Scotvote16 (P.S. The site may not work on Chrome browsers)

Green - 25
SNP - 18
LAB - 16
LIB - 11
UKIP - -6
CON - -8

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Is Sturgeon the best party leader in the UK today? She seems pretty competent in comparison to the others. She has actually managed to make anti-austerity policies popular.

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Is Sturgeon the best party leader in the UK today? She seems pretty competent in comparison to the others. She has actually managed to make anti-austerity policies popular.

It's easy to make anti-austerity policies popular; it's another thing to get people to vote for such policies.

Tell that to Corbyn. Plus people are voting for her.

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Is Sturgeon the best party leader in the UK today? She seems pretty competent in comparison to the others. She has actually managed to make anti-austerity policies popular.

It's easy to make anti-austerity policies popular; it's another thing to get people to vote for such policies.

I agree with you but it seems that Sturgeon has fought off any desire to make immigration the issue in Scotland. In England, that isn't the case.

Tell that to Corbyn. Plus people are voting for her.

Many people do generally like the idea of anti-austerity policies, but many of them (at least in rUK, and that was my point) just don't (for a variety of reasons) vote for such policies come election time. Hardline immigration policy has also long been popular, yet UKIP has never won more than a single seat in a general election and the BNP never placed higher than third in a parliamentary seat.

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I agree with you but it seems that Sturgeon has fought off any desire to make immigration the issue in Scotland. In England, that isn't the case.

That's because Scotland is the whitest part of Great Britain. Emigration has made a bigger mark on Scottish society over the past century than immigration...

If that was the case then why is UKIP making inroads in Wales and not Scotland? Wales has very similar demographics to Scotland. I have no idea about Welsh emigration in comparison to Scotland though so maybe that is a factor.

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I am a bit confused at how a majority of scots support a new Independence ref but the majority would just vote against it again. Do Scots now have passion of electoral type things?

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This is getting interesting. Edinburgh South, Patrick Harvie's supposed second placing in his constituency vote and Con's gaining on Lab in Eastwood.

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WOW Willie Rennie wins his constituency vote! This is such a strange election.

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Why did the Tories do so well?  Presumably Ruth Davidson is personally popular, but is there more to it than that?

Not bad for the Lib Dems either at least at the constituency level: very clear wins in both Orkney and Shetland, and winning North East Fife and Edinburgh Western back.

And do Dumbarton, Edinburgh Southern and East Lothian have anything in common that anyone can think of?

Tactical voting and a much more positive profile than LAB.