An anonymous commenter said this on the previous thread –
“This may come back to haunt you James. I think there’s every chance that next years Holyrood vote, if it’s seen as a defacto vote for a new referendum will be heavily gamed by the unionist parties.
It may be an absolute necessity that a new Independence list only party does stand just to reverse any shenanigans.”
I very much hope the unionist side does make a hapless attempt to game the system – for exactly the same reason that I hope the pro-indy side doesn’t. If, for example, George Galloway persuades a few thousand gullible Labour and Tory supporters to lend him their list votes, he won’t win any seats, but he could easily gift an extra seat or two to Yes parties. (That is, as long as we’re not foolish enough to attempt to “balance out” the mistake he’s making!)
Why is Galloway doing this? It’s about himself, as always. He’s seen how a small minority of Yessers have hopelessly fallen in love with the dream of ‘hacking’ the list vote, and thinks he can sell the same dream to unionist voters and win himself a passport back to semi-serious politics. I very much doubt if he’ll even succeed in doing that, though.
