[Bones McCoy]

I wonder if Johnson would ditch the Barnett Formula? Would saw off the legs of lots of Unionists, but he might do. If they're going anyway,

If they do abolish Barnett, they'll certainly have calculated any political cost in advance.
I don't think they have a lot to lose.
Only 6 (or was it 5) directly elected seats at Holyrood.
They'll still creep close to 25% with the D'Hondt list seats.

The biggest threat to the Tory list seats would be a Labour resurgence.
Maybe Sawwar Jr, can work some magic outside his Glasgow South manor.

[Tubby Isaacs]

Yep.

A border with Scotland hurts rUK too, but Johnson would have in the short term a few billion more for spaffing in marginals (not the whole Barnett "bonus", Scotland would still get more than England because of its sparse population). Would Johnson do that?

[Tubby Isaacs]

Good Labour effort in Airdrie and Shotts (Westminster). But you aren't beating the SNP on tactical voting if they get nearly 47%.

[Arrowhead]

Good Labour effort in Airdrie and Shotts (Westminster). But you aren't beating the SNP on tactical voting if they get nearly 47%.

Agreed, not a bad showing given the wider circumstances right now. Something to give a bit of encouragement to Sarwar.

Airdrie & Shotts was one of several constituencies that Scottish Labour only very narrowly failed to immediately win back at GE2017. There were a few places where, if they had even matched their GE2015 vote tally, they would have won back at the first attempt.

[Andy McDandy]

This thread title seems to be a great example of Betteridge's law.

[Malcolm Armsteen]

Is It?

[Tubby Isaacs]

Genius logic here. Andy Burnham accused of nasty nationalism by a bloke who thinks the SNP and Scotland are the same thing. Do SNP politicians criticizing Westminster mean England then?

With the added twist that apparently Burnham is doing this as a stunt to win a leadership contest he won't be running in.

(Yeah, I know Bozo's still in charge forever and he's still awful).

[Tubby Isaacs]

It's GERs day. You'll never guess who's piped up?

Given that GERs are produced by the Scottish Government, and the SNP have been talking about them today, I think it's unlikely that they've all missed something Richard has spotted.

[Tubby Isaacs]

Oh man. Take the GERs away from independent statisticians and let the SNP Finance Minister produce them, with the advice of me, I'm a chartered accountant.

The SNP Finance Minister doesn't want to produce the GERs. And accepts them as accurate.

[Youngian]

SNP do deal with 'anti Britain' party. Count me in