Don’t get me wrong, I will probably cave at the last minute and vote SNP again for a number of reasons. Mostly, being supportive of a number of their progressive policies that I have benefited from over the years, and also because my constituency is a two horse race between them and the Tories who I will never vote for. Though the SNP are probably now at their lowest point in years since they finally managed to oust Sturgeon.
I will also never vote Labour, they have no identity here and during the 2019 election they were campaigning for the Tories to oust SNP here, so 100% fuck them too.
I once voted for Lib Dem and we ended up with the catastrophic Clegg/Cameron coalition (though due to FPTP my vote didn’t matter there.)
I would like to vote for Green, but it would be a wasted vote here.
It’s just bizarre to me that Westminster’s voting system is such that a vast majority of votes in the UK are binned, how is this considered normal?
Sorry for the rant, but I am just so incredibly disillusioned with politics in this shitehole of a country but absolutely refuse to be passive about it since that is what they want us to be.
I suspect that if either main party in England started to adopt PR policies they’d find a way to moderate their stance, exactly for the reason you describe. For example, that English votes don’t apply.
The SNP, on Westminster issues, have a very easy role to play because they are perpetual opposition. I agree with them on a lot, if not most, things they say, but as we saw with the gaza ceasefire amendment debacle, if they have an opportunity to paint Westminster and/or Labour in a negative light, they will take that route instead. It’s a shame really.