[SCOT goes POP!] Make mine a double: why it has to be BOTH votes SNP next May

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Make mine a double: why it has to be BOTH votes SNP next May

And yes, I do of course intend to vote "Both Votes SNP" next May, and would urge all SNP members and supporters to do the same, for the reasons I've given umpteen times over the last fifteen years (basically that the list vote is your "banker vote", it's what the overall composition of parliament is determined by, and is therefore not conducive to so-called "tactical voting").  But I must admit my main reason for the headline of this post is just to trigger our old friend Stew, and my goodness he is so easily triggered these days.  

Given that Stew famously "never even mentions me", it's amazing how often I get to be the star of Wings Over Scotland. It's my time in the sun, yet again, today.

I'm deeply honoured, Stew.

— James Kelly (@JamesKelly) October 14, 2025

You'll notice that even though his latest epic rant about me extensively quotes from my previous blogpost, he doesn't refer to me directly by name.  This is his standard tactic, both on his main site and on Twitter, in the hope that in six months' time he can tell his fans to do a search for my name to 'prove that he never even mentions me'.   Hmmm.  I'm afraid that bird has flown now, Stew.  Even the hardcore of the brainwashed will have noticed by now that you do tend to blog about me rather a lot.

In the video below you can see my response to Stew's article, in which I address his main point head-on, and explain exactly why pushing for the best possible result for the SNP at next year's election remains the right thing to do and makes perfect sense, in spite of my misgivings about the strategy that was agreed on Saturday.

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