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Anas Sarwar asks voters in Scotland to give Labour five years to ‘fix SNP’s mess’ (www.theguardian.com)
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[–] 5 points 6 months ago

Lol

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    [–] 2 points 6 months ago

    It's a bad situation because the SNP are net disappoved on almost every area in every metric, but almost certain to win again. That's a recipe for major discontent.

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    [–] 2 points 6 months ago

    If you think trans people have it much too good in Scotland, vote Labour. Everyone else, vote Green.

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    [+] 2 points 6 months ago (5 children)
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  • [–] 5 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    That sounds like a good thing, but Scotland has so much wind it kinda doesn't make sense to build nuclear power. I'm not poopooing nuclear, it's a really useful tech, just with the amount of time and money to spin up a single nuclear station we'd be swimming in wind farms....

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago (2 children)

    The SNP has been really good at building windfarms, got to give them credit there. I'm still pro some nuclear, as a back-up when it's still and cloudy (or just night time - long nights in the Scottish winter!), especially because solar panels are less useful at that latitude, so you're really reliant on wind.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago

    Yeah, I got you. Definitely not opposed to nuclear, just think that with the conditions here in Scotland going in on it without boosting wind generation even more would be stupid. That said I've not really looked at anyone's campaign platforms yet...should probably do that with the election around the corner....

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago

    Battery technology has become so much cheaper in the last few years but the dial does not seem to be shifting on fission. I'm not sure why so many commentators online are so wedded to the technology, given how expensive it is.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago

    I don't know, I think the nuclear promise can almost safely be ignored. Largely unpopular, costs too much money and time. I wouldn't mind seeing it happen, but it's whatever at this point.

    The other promises though? To me it sounds like a lot of big things without having the gov pay for it (in fact the government would be cutting taxes and investment). It'll be through private investment, which could be okay, or it could be a disaster with investors wanting high returns from the homes they build, for example.

    And then we come to...

    Scotland’s first NHS appointments app and AI-driven diagnostics in the NHS

    Now this is where I instantly draw the line. I like the app idea, that's fine; I wish I didn't need to call and gamble at 9am for an appointment. AI diagnostics though? What kind of AI? Because I can't help but assume generative AI and that's an insane concept that means I reject everything else he's saying outright. Even outside of genAI I'm not aware of machine learning applications that would help reliably enough.

    Smells a lot like "we'll have our cake and eat it too". I might vote for the Scottish Labour guy in my constituency since they're much more on the left, but I'm not inspired to vote for Scottish Labour as a whole.

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    • [–] 1 point 6 months ago

    If what he plans to bring is more neo liberalism, the likes of which we're getting from Starmer and his lot, their change is not likely to be good for the majority in Scotland.

    Also marginalising what has now become a majority in Scotland by refusing them a right to vote on their self determination isn't going to help things.

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