EU Referendum: 23.06.16

[Ironing Man]

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they'll be the same as those who've voted for the SNP and who voted against in the Scot Indyref...

UKIP, like the SNP, have had to become a good deal more than their headline policies - you don't win council seats on questions over the EU, and electoral politics is about accepting some things you are indifferent to, and some things you really don't like if it brings enough people with you on the biggest issues.

i've voted SNP in Holyrood and council elections because while i'm a convinced unionist, the SNP not only had other policies i liked, but in the final analysis were the only party who looked remotely competant at being a government - while i don't quite beleive the idea that all politics is local, i have children who need a working education system, i have a car that needs decent roads and for them to be well gritted in winter, and i want a health system that works and is in the right place.

Labour, and Labour and the LD's, failed at that stuff - being in the UK, or not having a referendum over the issue, doesn't help me if i can't get to work, or my kids school is both a wreck and going in the wrong direction...