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Originally Posted by jfman
It'd be nice to see the unionist parties show some kind of progressive vision for Scotland rather than see how Union Flaggy they can be to appeal to Rangers fans/Orange Order and telling them the SNP threaten their 17th century way of life.
It'll only ever appeal to a population dying out.
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Again ... something of a misreading of how things are around here right now. The one thing unionist politicians try very hard at in Scotland is not associating themselves with the Orange Order (or Rangers FC).
The key selling point is, primarily, an end to the divisive negative rhetoric of the nationalists, but also the slowly growing sense that the Nats have never had their eye on the ball as the Scottish government and that a lot of things have been going slowly wrong over an extended period.
The claim that kids are all Nats and it’s pensioners that are keeping Scotland in the union is nonsense that was cooked up while the Yes campaign was getting its excuses ready in the dying days of the campaign in 2014. Polling has never borne this out. Scottish nationalism is driven largely by angry men aged between 30 and 50, a worrying number of whom also believe in chemtrails and black helicopters.