I fear some SNP voters, judging by the confused rambling by one person on here, don't seem to know what the SNP policies are Allan...

Both "equality leading to prosperity" and "tax breaks for multinationals who bring inward investment" are good, sound SNP policies, yet seem to be derided by an SNP voter here.

Never mind, I'm sure they are politicians and don't mind where the votes come from so long as they do. I'm sure they, just like any other party, will disappoint some who believe in them for reasons they would rather not be associated with..

I don't know if McMusket has said how he will be voting, as I haven't been following everything about Scotland on these threads lately, but the dilemma of a party that puts equality into practice and is proud of their championing LBGT issues is something I'm sure he is interested in, but a party that thinks Scotland voted how it did because they were taken in by English promises?

Wow.. SNP do sometimes arrogantly think they know better than the electorate, and in case anybody missed it, Scotland doesn't want independence.

Mind you, I am happy with SNP. I get invited to meetings for those of us who invest in Scotland, (not much in my case, just a few dozen holiday lets, student lets etc) and we get wined, dined and thankfully not 69'd by them, together with incentives to provide further investment.

You see, people can complain about the system all they wish, but it would be far better to see how the system can work better. Business pays for social infrastructure, and without it? Even North Korea sell products on the international market in order to feed their people. Sanctions against rogue dictators are usually commercial, because you need business in order to achieve anything.

Sadly, the system is broke, and to some degree, always was. But in the same way that a large company used to not be concerned about who runs a council because they had factories, shops etc in other towns and counties, multinationals don't feel constrained by parochial affairs such as country level.

Not only a good reason to remain in The EU, which has critical mass, but also to ensure out elected members remember the world is smaller now, and little England or little Scotland is irrelevant. World economics pay for the pensions, social care, NHS and security. Any party candidate who thinks it is still 1952 and we still have an Empire to fall back on is unfit for office. Yet Tory and UKIP candidates seem to think the world owes us a living. Labour are fuzzy about where the money is coming from but at least have good ideas how to raise living standards and Lib Dem are a wounded lion of the old whigs having their carcass pulled at by hyenas.

Hopefully...

(Greens? I am still a non executive director of a manufacturing company I used to be MD of in Brighton, and the Greens frankly scare me....)

I'll vote Labour as I said, but will scrutinise closely what the parties are saying about NHS. Whatever they promise, they'll not fund it and as someone who has tried for the last fifteen years or so to turn their bloody promises into reality, I'm glad I've just about retired from it..