Scottish Parliament election

Go on Brian, give us your prediction for the greens, no more hedging your bets (If you'll pardon the slight pun..hedge..green..)

how many seats will the greens get?

I can't keep up with all these blog entries - hope you can keep it up all night though!

Hi,
Brian this bloging is fantasti just imagine if we could talk to the politicians like this.

Well done Brian and all at the BBC tonight.

Cheers
Bob

coffee must be seriously good if he can keep it up!

Interesting that the Greens are confident- I think the big battle between the top 3 will perhaps squeeze rather than assist the Greens?

Like many people, I am very sympathetic to green issues, but a green vote really is a non-vote in an election like this.

Greens can never govern. If you support Green issues, don't spoil a good vote but go and join Greenpeace instead.

Three factors determined my vote: 1)IRAQ and 2) IRAQ again, and 3) the sheer dreariness of the prospect of eternal Labour domination in Scotland.

Aye, the blogging is fab and the comments make you feel more involved but it's a shame there's not an IRC or some other chat mechanism that we would have banter amongst ourselves and maybe have the studio pick up on some of the comments and include them in the live broadcast and ask the politicians to comment too.

That woulda been really cool.

Kev

Hello Brian,
i grew up in england to scots parents in corby. solid labour, my grandad was a glasgow communist in the 30s. 8 years ago i stood outside a shawlands school urging people to vote labour like i had in 97 as a member of the party.

today i felt real joy and ambition voting by conscience for the greens in list and local elections and by voting SNP for the first time for a nuclear free independent scotland.

this is the stuff the polls and the pundits don't pick up - politics matters, people's values are important to them - education, health, well-being, the environment, iraq and a greater say in our affairs matters to everyone who voted today.

Did anyone else feel that McConnell approached this election like a man who had already decided that he was going? Seems to me that Jack knows better than most that Westminster has inhibited him in Scottish Parliament - and that he secretly believes that Scotland should be independent!

I wonder if Tommy Sheridan's got £50 on Solidarity getting him back in this election too.

Brian,

Any chance of blogging this link:

https://searchirc.com/search.php?F=exact&T=chan&N=1846&I=Scotland

If you click on the 'Scotland' link it opens a browser based IRC chat tool and anyone can join, even yourself if the aunty beeb's IT guys let you run java applets in your browser.

It's a scottish IRC (internet relay chat) channel, let's get the viewers and readers share a bit of gossip and opinion amongst ourselves as the night rolls on.

Cheers
Kev

If his constituents are loyal to him he will get back in

Tell him he should have backed Seville to win 2-0. I whacked a days pay on at 11/2.
I bet McConnell chews his fingernails tonight. Or whats left of the stubs he calls fingers.

I believe the Greens may do much better than people think. It is useful to have Greens in the Parliament to highlight key environmental issues and it appears they have done well in the last four years.

As pointed out by Tommy Sheridan people use the list vote to allow smaller parties a say.

Hope Patrick Harvey wins his bet.

i fear that the SNP will become the major party of this country and take us down the road of independance, which i believe will cause nothing but harm to our wonderful country and nation.

if this is the case i trust that all other parties will fight tooth and nail over the next four years to prevent any such thing taking place.

wot a load of absolute rubbish! Everyone being so polite.Lets face it,we are all voting for who we want in power next..and the totally disheartening thing is all our poloticians are more interested in their media image than governing our increasingly disjointed kingdom.Well,lets give them a clue,having submitted ourselves to scottish rule and total prejudice against england,we have had enough.this may be a local election but we are voting for more than that,this is a cry for help!England for the English..stick that in your politically correct pipe without tobacco and dont inhale it!