Kern wrote:
Oh boy, these results mean the next few years are going to be fun!
Giphy "exciting constitutional tangles":
https://media2.giphy.com/media/gj6ycml2r6anyCdajp/giphy-loop.mp4
Yep, I'm looking forward to Johnson saying the SNPs 48% vote share doesn't give them a mandate while conveniently ignoring his own 43% vote share that was touted as "a mandate for brexit".
I still want independence, but I feel like it's really not getting any closer. (No one: .... Absolutely no one: .... Tory: NATIONALISTS NEVER SHUT UP ABOUT INDEPENDENCE!) Most interesting part to me was some of the smaller swings we saw. I was kinda expecting to see more movement away from the Tories in some areas, given the negative impacts Brexit has had on some of them. It's a little amusing to see there was basically no change in vote share - I don't think any party broke much more than a 1% country-wide voteshare difference from 2016.
I didn't expect the SNP to win a majority, but I'm definitely happy them and the greens got a few extra seats between them - it looks to me like together they achieved more than 50% of the total vote, which is definitely promising for hopes of independence! It amuses me somewhat that the Unionist voters appear to have managed to figure out tactical voting with the AMS system better than the endless "BOTH VOTES SNP" crowd. Yay, hundreds of thousands of wasted 2nd votes?