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info@iscot.scot with your tale. Dear iScot,
Well, I hope the No voters and the Tories in England are pleased with themselves. We are in the first week of this reconvened parliament and there are £12 billion cuts heading our way - £170 million from the Scotish Government’s budget - the Royal Mail is being sold off risking universal delivery to rural areas, & the English NHS is being carved up, which will have a knock on effect on Scotland’s NHS.
Added to this we have whatever they are planning to do to the Human Rights legislation; to be honest the reports on what is happening there are changing so rapidly I’m really not sure if they know what they are doing. Then there’s the farce that is Cameron atempting to alter the terms of us being in Europe, that may as well go to a vote now, as I doubt he has the ability to change utilities providers, let alone anything more complicated.
Labour is busy navel gazing for the next 4 months minimum, and whilst the SNP will oppose the Tories at every turn, there just isn’t enough of them. And we have another 4 years and 11 months of this to go, with a press who are more bothered about clapping in the chamber & who sits where than crippling levels of austerity that look set to decimate our public services.
So I’d just like to say thanks & well done.* * May include sarcasm. S Charlesworth
Dear iScot,
I can’t tell you how impressed I am with the sheer quality and scope of the magazine, it is a real grown up look at Scotland and Scotish life without appearing like a petulant atempt to ignore the Referendum result, this in my view will create a certain discomfort in the trouser area of No voters who I expect may well be forced to shiſt uncomfortably in their seats.
John K - Address supplied
Will’s view I want to thank Margaret Shaw for raising points in her leter printed in iScot’s June issue. Her leter addressed my article on the green party, mentioning David Mundell’s victory, and raised an important point. Some voters were upset at the Greens’ behaviour during these elections.
Margaret was right to steer away from questions of blame in her leter. It would be hypocritical to blame the SNP for Mundell’s re-election , as it would be the SNP’s fault that Labour lost in England, and the Green Party’s fault in not unseating David Mundell.
I’m sympathetic to that sentiment as a campaigner for Al Gore’s presidential bid, the recriminations over the hanging chad, broadcasts of projected victory, and anger towards the American Green Party: A few hundred votes separated Gore and Bush in Florida, the Green Party took 97,000 votes.
A word of caution to party followers: Someone else’s vote doesn’t belong to your cause. Blaming the American Greens for the aſtermath of Bush’s administration was ridiculous, the fault was entirely due to ‘that administration’, Greens voted for what they believed in.
info@iscot.scot Dear iScot,
I am interested in buying your £48.00 print copy 12 month subscription - but instead of starting from June I’d prefer to receive each of your back issues (and then whatever months remain in the subscription aſter that).
Would that be possible? Slàinte! I Robertson, Address supplied
98 July 2015
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ken@iScot.scot and we’ll arrange this for you.
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The dilemma for most Americans fed up with our two-party system, is that there’s no inclination to diversify, due to a case of political entrenchment.
Florida is not the Scotish Borders. Some green voters there did vote for Emma Harper and de facto the SNP, but others voted for what they believed, including unionist greens.
In the end the SNP still won almost every seat in Scotland. It was a fantastic night!
So to answer the question Margaret raised. I believe it likely that Scotish voters will support the Greens tactically. Scots have a sophisticated sense of ‘Tactical Voting’. They have an opportunity here that few have ever had. With the D’Hondt system as a way to choose both their government, and opposition leaders. Scots may decide that Harvie should be quizzing Nicola, rather than whoever else wins the Scotish Labour leadership election.
There will be many who would see Labour relegated to fringe party status in Scotland. Some voting SNP as a means to that particular end, and voting green in the regional list as a similar, tactical decision.
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