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The majority of us have lives to be getting on with while marchers do their marching. And while they are perfectly entitled to take to the streets, those who bring traffic to a standstill on a Saturday afternoon should accept that they may be considered colossal pains in the a e.
Boris Johnson has also been urged to appoint Ruth Davidson (pictured) as Secretary of State for Scotland. Picture: Getty Images
There is, however, no reasoning with the committed marcher. Tell him that he’s wasting his and your time and he will tell you that you fear the unstoppable tide of nationalism, that you’re running scared from democracy.
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It seems that Nicola Sturgeon s party is going to struggle to achieve an outright majority in its own right DUE to the pandemic it s been a strange election campaign, and an equally strange results day - or more exactly days. Instead of the political junkie sitting up all night and waking up bleary eyed to the results. We have instead been treated to the electoral results equivalent of a protracted root canal treatment without any anaesthetic. Results are slowly dripping in and by teatime the day after the vote it s still not clear what the final result is going to be in detail. Scottish political anoraks have been reduced to feeling like annoying children in the back seat of the cart, chorusing, Are we there yet? at five minute intervals.
Alex Salmond s pro-independence party launched at the start of the Holyrood campaign in late March
He had been fighting on regional list section of ballot and aimed to win an independence supermajority
But former first minister said his new party looked set to fall short of the amount needed to pick up seats
Opponents have claimed he was unfit for office after he admitted inappropriate conduct during a trial
Scottish Conservative leader Douglas Ross says Mr Salmond, 66, should now leave frontline politics
Alex Salmond's popularity slumps to less than 10% while Nicola Sturgeon leads with voters, new poll suggests pressandjournal.co.uk - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from pressandjournal.co.uk Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
ALBA have projected their logo onto historic Scottish sites with less than 24 hours to go until polls open. It comes after Alex Salmond’s party projected the Alba logo onto the BBC Scotland building at Pacific Quay in Glasgow, ahead of a leaders’ debate they were not invited to participate in. Last night Alba released images of their logo showing on Edinburgh Castle, Stirling Castle and Dundee’s Caird Hall. Different polling companies have predicted varying levels of support for the party, which hopes to secure an independence “supermajority” by only fielding last candidates. Panelbase has consistently put support at about 6%, which would give the party a handful of MSPs, while others have been between 2-3%.