At 03:45 we refer to the SNP as the "Scottish Nationalist Party" when it should be the "Scottish National Party". This mistake should have been caught in the script edit, we apologise and will endeavour to do better next time.

Scottish independence really hinges now on Labour's performance in Westminster. If they fail to noticeably improve things, then the soft support for independence driven by dissatisfaction with Westminster (i.e. the last 14 years of the Tories) will remain, and perhaps even sharpen. On the other hand, if Labour do start to turn things around, then a large chunk of less invested pro-independence voters will no longer be particularly bothered

We got Jack recording from the couch before GTA 6 🗣️🔥‼️💯🚨

The craziest election result for me was that an incumbent SNP MP (Richard Thomson) lost to a Tory who has not been an MP

Is the couch comfy? Lmao

2019 was all about Brexit. SNP had the clearest plan about what to do about it, meanwhile Labour had the worst infighting within the party on which stance to take.

First past the post is a horrible system.. The mere fact Labour got 400+ seats with millions of fewer vote then in 2019 is insane.

I’m American and have become fascinated by UK politics in the last week! I found your channel and I am loving it! It’s been a crash course in all things Parliamentary and ever since having insomnia on July 4th and watching the election results I can’t seem to not want to learn more!? For instance my first time hearing that Nicola Sturgeon was arrested last year was this video! It just sent me down a Scottish Independence rabbit hole… You’ve now just given me another thing to obsess over while procrastinating over more important things! Cheers!

The SNP losing in Skye is shocking… all seats of Glasgow went Labour…

Independence was dead long before this election. The clue is that only 17% of voters counted the issue as one of their top three, given that includes those who consider it very I portent it doesn't happen, that means only one in ten voters are really keen. You don't get a revolution from that. The real attitude of voters is that one day it would be nice, but just now it's not worth the trouble. There is no reason to think that will change. Brexit might have annoyed Scots, but it didn't have any impact on independence support beyond a few weeks. It's lasting impact is that it makes independence much more risky than it would have been with both countries locked together in the Single Market and customs Union.

The TL;DR to this TL;DR video: lots of scandals.

The SNP have the same problem as the Tories. Complete lack of self awareness, blaming everyone else and no idea what they've done wrong. Long may it continue I supoose, if it leads to the downfall of both.

Couple of things. The SNP isn't the Scottish Nationalist Party. That's a dog whistle name the pro-union side give them. It's actually the "National" party. Two wildly different connotations there. Yes Nicola Sturgeon was indeed arrested after her resignation, but she was subsequently released without charge. It was her husband who was accused of fraud regarding donations. Slight distinction there. Anas Sarwar isn't as popular a person in Scotland as you paint him as. He just happens to be helming the Labour party, which for years up until this vote wasn't all that remarkable. I do hope he provides the necessary change Scotland needs though, as a Scot who in the recent vote went for the Green party. I do have to agree that infighting is what held the party back, but the UK press has been consistent in it's utter contempt for the party. At times rightly justified, at others disproportionately caustic, particularly with the backdrop that they gave the Tories complete leeway until it was socially acceptable to start being honest about the shit show. So, while yes, there's been an erosion of trust in the SNP due to some nonsensical choices, this isn't the end of the party, and much like elsewhere in the uk, the Labour majority is not a stable one and firmly hinges on them doing the right thing quickly. All the best to the Labour party. This is their chance to prove that Scotland means something to the UK, because if not it'll be back to the SNP for a lot of people. I'll add a point about independence as people really don't get it down south. There's a broad cross section of Scottish people from all ends of the political spectrum that consistently want Sovereignty from the UK. It's not enough to action, but it's enough to keep an eye on, particularly when that dial shifts. It's also not an SNP exclusive quirk. Independence isn't a movement that can be quashed by slogans and rhetoric from Westminster or the newspapers - rather it's that kind of constant slander that increases the likelihood of people wanting out. Indy isn't the same as Brexit. Brexit was conceived to rally the Tory party's fringes back to the cause. Indy evolved as a desire independent of party that was eventually given form. It should be noted that the Greens also support Independence, and they're centre left. So for all those "the dream is dead" folks out there, calm down. One catastrophically wrong move in Westminster and the Scots will rebel. The indy dream dies when the UK becomes an example of true excellence and prosperity. Are we there yet? Let me know.

As a Scot who supports independence, and my position on that hasn't changed, I'm glad to see the end to a decade of division and stagnation, I'm fed up of every political discussion in this country rerouting back to the question of independence; No point in trying to convince a majority that independence is the best way to solve the problems we have the powers to solve now, constraints from Westminster or not, I'm tired of the SNP blaming everything on the big bad parliament in London, I'm no fan of WM Politics, I think it's archaic and the outdated traditions are an embarrassment, I want a modern forward looking parliament that works for everyone, and I'm watching keenly to see how the SNP work with the new government, because I wouldn't be surprised if it was the SNP making things hard this time round, there's no "Unelected WM government" argument anymore, and I found it ludicrous that the SNP were banging on about unelected PMs whilst doing the same thing here with First Ministers, I've not voted for Humza or for Swinney - So when's the snap holyrood election like the snap general election they spent so long shouting for under similar circumstances.

The Tory government in Westminster made a lot of Scottish voters (including myself) feel far stronger about independence, because we could see how corrupt the Tories were, and how badly they were damaging Scotland. Now that Keir's Labour government is in power, the situation is very different. Corruption has been supplanted by competence, and Scotland feels like it's being somewhat respected and looked after again. Sure Labour have a mountain to climb to truly fix 14 years of corrupt Tory rule, but it's safe to say both Scotland and the UK have turned a corner for the better, and that's a huge relief.

Sarwar is NOT popular in Scotland

Humza Yousaf happened.

It seems alarming for the SNP by looking at the seat share, but they were actually only down by 5% of votes compared with the 2019 election. Green and Alba votes were up (indicating around 3% out of the 5% of those lost SNP votes going to these 2 other pro-independence parties), and some switched to Labour. Even pro-independence voters switched to Labour in order to "get the Tories out" as tories are wildly unpopular in most parts of Scotland. The scandals and post-covid ball drops obviously played an impact, but that impact was exaggerated by FPTP. I do agree that public services is the top priority for people in Scotland (naturally, a very socialist-leaning country - go figure) and that independence is not an immediate concern for most.

Im in Scotland and everyone I have talked to so far about the election has agreed that the SNP vote is not reflective of the support for the party. Most people think that people voted Labour to get the Tories out but the SNP will have a very different result in the next election in two years. Only time will tell

The fact that the Tories held on to 5 seats in Scotland when they were wiped out in Wales is utterly baffling to me.

SNP stands for Scottish National Party - do be careful about this!

Nicola Sturgeons arrest and then release without charge.

Two reasons I can think of. Single issue party whose issue is almost dead. With the exception of Brexit more closely allied with the Tories and the public wanted them gone. Leadership and the ongoing, I think, investigations didn't help

''Politicians and babies' nappies must be changed often and for the same reason.'' Mark Twain.

3:28 Anas Sarwar popular ?! what da heck is that based on? the vote for labour here was not a vote for Sarwar.

To call out education and the NHS is bizzar to say the least! The Pisa results in England and Scotland are not comparable because England was nearly 7x less represented than Scotland. In England, just 4,8% of 3,458 Secondary Schools took part. In Scotland, 32,8% of 357 Secondary Schools took part. The Scottish NHS is the best performing in the UK. It is certainly not where the People of Scotland want it to be but this is after 14 years of austerity from WM. Scotland has put in place extra funding, but it does not have a magic money tree. Unlike WM.

For me, who lived in the northern most constituency on the mainland. I used to Vote SNP but now I can't stand them. They focus all the government spending on the central belt and neglect the Highlands. The way they failed to modernise the only Main road in and out the Highlands, The A9, where people dying on a daily basis was the final straw for me.

I cannot believe how badly they did. I thought i was being harsh when I predicted 20

Count Dankula: "Oh no, what happened? Oh no, how terrible! That's just awful, how terrible oh no!" 🤣

Fun fact - if just three more tory constituencies had flipped, you would have been able to walk from land's end to John O'groats without having to wipe your feet

6:40 - “Uniquely” - Jack, do you and the staff know the meaning of that word? Wales literally has 0 conservative members, Scotland has more than 1.

Scot and SNP voter here. I think it's a number of factors. 16 years in power brings voter fatigue. The party has faced a few scandals now. Yousaf tanked the agreement with the Greens. I think Scots voted Labour because their priority was getting the Tories out. The cost of living and public services are what people are concerned about. I think independence is taking a back seat for a while. Swinney misread the country very badly by making this election about independence.

FPTP and tactical voting to out the Tories at all cost. That's mostly it.

westminster is not for england, but for the whole of the UK! England does not have a parliament for itsself, and as such is underrepresenteated and loses power, compared to Scotland, Wales and N. Ireland, they can make rules that affect England but we can't make rules affecting them due to their devolved parliament!

Our NHS, Education Systems and Police force in tatters and they were talking about transgender toilets. Clueless.

Video on why the Labour vote share fell in Wales when?? Has to be the Gething scandal, his refusal to stand down after losing a vote of no confidence, Drakeford’s deeply unpopular blanket 20 mph among other issues. In Denbighshire where I am we have some bin shit going on and that left the Labour candidate vulnerable but she scraped in.

As a lifelong SNP voter I just couldn't force myself to vote for them this time because of the crazy hate speech bill and allowing men to decide whether they want to spend time in a mans prison or a prison for women. Bin this nonsense NOW!

The SNP has acted with an air of invincibility in Scotland. Hence, all the scandals and crises. They'll argue its all worth it in pursuit of independence, but at this rate, they will ruin us before that even happens

Nicola Sturgeon is to the SNP what Nigel Farage is to UKIP/Brexit Party/Reform. She is essential in pushing forward the agenda. She's an electoral gladiator. She speaks well, she is extremely persuasive and the SNP seemed far less volatile with her as leader. Her/her husband's financial jiggery pokery has effectively seized the SNP wave.

The SNP brought in laws that are not popular with the public e.g. Hate crime law which created chaos for Police Scotland and the minimum pricing for alcohol which did not reduce the alcohol related deaths and the extra money created did not go to the NHS but the retailer. They also started to tell the public what they wanted rather than the other way round.

Labour's going find out the reason themselves soon enough.

I really hope Labour can introduce more devolution not to the UK countries but to even more local authorities. Not only might that kill separatism in the bud, but matters of healthcare, environmental protection, education, policing and other public services like infrastructure are best left to the most local authorities possible to dynamically create regional solutions to regional challenges without threatening national integrity and therefore security and global standing. I’m usually a Tory but after 14 years I hope Labour can bring in some necessary changes, while not kowtowing to fringe populist demands.

In the North they were strongly punished for their failure to deliver dual carriageway upgrades to the primary North/South route, the A9, commonly regarded as Road of Death.

This is actually irrelevant regards Scotland as sending them to Westminster is a pointless exercise but where it does kill them is the loss of short money and being bankrupt with almost 2 million of debt and their troubles don't stop there, donations drying up, membership dropping and the last large donation was around 127k left to them in a will which was reported that the bulk of that being paid to Sturgeons "Husband" as he had loaned them money, I cant confirm if it was his money but it was someone's money. The real test will be in 2026 with the Scottish elections and if Labour devolve more more powers to these criminal deviants then Labour may find itself on the end of a real hiding when those elections come and that will follow through to the GE

Alba Party run by Alex Salmond, lost its two Westminster MPs, who were SNP defections, and all their election candidates lost their deposits last Thursday. The election collapse of SNP and Alba seems to indicate that independence is not a pressing concern for Scottish voters.

I usually vote SNP. I didn't this time round. They've just not felt like a party if I'm honest. Independence would be great, for sure. But it's just so incredibly unlikely to happen that it's not worth throwing away my vote on a party that isn't going to have any power anyway. After the gender id bill was just outright blocked, it became very clear to me, that Scotland has no power.

. . ."They Didn't Fix The Potholes" ! . . .

I love how you're actively ignoring one of biggest factors; Humza. Really don't want to come across as racist, do you?

1:25 things turned out rather differently; Understatement of the century!

I love the new couch style video. It looks much more like some friend explaining something, which helps the learning, because people listen to a friend more than a teacher.

FPTP really is undefendable.

More likely to take this analysis more seriously if you were to get the name of the Scottish National Party correct. Boris Johnson would deliberately call them Nationalist, so I hope you are not doing the same.

The SNP will probably follow the same path as the PQ in Québec...

If you understand that Scotland is becoming more cosmopolitan every year (especially with English people moving up),you'll realise that the.high vote for SNP will never happen again!

The Labour governement got all the Tory vote in Scotland and swung a lot of marginal seats. The vote share tells a different story. There are also hundreds of thousands of English migrants into Scotland since 2020.

Their views on Europe gender and immigration are what finished the SNP should be concentrating on independence

There's a massive elephant in the room you haven't mentioned: the trans debate. I could be wrong but it might have played a part.

The issue with the snp to me is they are a 1 story party. They are not and never were interested in running Scotland only in getting independence. At some point they should have got on with running a great country personally I’m anti independence and voted to remain with the uk and leave the eu. I have friends that were also leave the eu and leave the uk. They like me also feel that the snp stopped caring about Scotland and just caring about getting independence. Funnily enough I have a friend that is really big on independence and he put it really well, people forget that once we get independence we don’t need to keep the snp and we can get rid of those ‘insert worse expletive you can think of’ as well.

Our God indeed is a covenant keeping God. Has he said a thing and not perform it? I watch how things unfold in my life, from penury to $356,000 every three months and I can only praise him and trust him more. Hallelujah 🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻

It is the Scottish NATIONAL Party.

The Scottish people have seen how bad Brexit has been for GB in general, they don't want the same thing happening to Scotland.

One of the reasons for a low turnout in Scotland was because a lot of people were on holiday being the first week of the Scottish Holidays, it was well documented here that a large number of people didn't get their postal votes before they went on holiday. It was clearly a ploy by rishi sunak to try and take away the Scottish vote. Many people who went on holiday would also not have bothered voting.

SNP voters stayed at home is the conclusion disappointed with SNP policy that were not to do with independence. The independence movement is staying just under 50% and demographics will see it increase over time as younger less unionist orientated. Labour got 36% of Scottish vote , SNP got 30% yet labour got 4 times as many seats such is the fptp that starmer wont change.

Humza, Gething, Sunak, all unelected

Why did the snp do so bad because they are pure crap 🤣🤪🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇬🇧

Jack's doing the Jacob Rees Mogg posture check

Simply put, we got sick of them. Yes they are mired in some pretty bad scandals, and Humza was just plain awful as a leader but it's more than just that. We've actually become sick of how they approach and discuss independence, regardless of stance on it. It's become the answer to every single criticism of them as a party and the answer to every political issue (NHS, Crime, Economy, etc.). They've become dismissive of normal everyday issues facing most Scots, in favour of advancing a purely Independence agenda. They've become a single issue party - touting independence at every opportunity, actively picking fights over it, and doing very little constructively to aid Scotland as a part of the UK - which we are. Scotland wanted a bit of change too, and only Labour really seemed to offer that.

The SNP exists to get Scottish independence. Well why hasn’t it been done?

Too much of talking but failed to govern scotland. Please take the back seat.

Since when was supporting public services socially conservative? From what I understand, every left wing person I know, myself included, supports both investment in public services and progressive social policy, they do not oppose each other in any way

It comes down to people realizing after Brexit how disasterous a Scottish exit would be.

While not mentioned in this video, Alba, got fewer than 12,000 votes and no seats. I wonder if Salmond will still continue with it?

SNP sucks when they were in power

Anas Sarwar isn't that popular at all. Most people are apathetic to him.

Keep in mind that the Scottish Parliament itself is still ran by the SNP, adn the Scottish Parliament is responsible for Scotlands public services and the such. The General Election result shows that people are dissatisfied with the SNP, but nothing can be done about it until the elections for the Scottish parliament are called, and they are not due to be called until May 2026.

The SNP are not Scottish nationalists. Sturgeon herself said she doesn’t like the word. They are little more than European regionalists.

Labour has done far more for Scottish independence than the SNP did - the Labour party installed the Scottish Parliament, while the SNP merely failed to make any changes whatsoever.

“The conservatives are uniquely unpopular in Scotland” bit of an understatement

I think the tldr team missed the mark on this video. Incorrect stating the name of the SNP and failing to consider that many people including myself voted labour to get the Tories out of Westminster. I'd still vote SNP in the Holyrood election over labour

Liking this different background! The little polaroids are cute lol

Just like the Tories, people of Scotland are fed up the SNP (the tartan Tories).

It's interesting how parallel scottish and catalan independence movements continue to be. The same two arguments, sense of stale politics for the last 5 years (our PISA scores were terrible too) and infights between the main independence parties exaplain the situation in Catalonia too.

Only time anyone has decribed anas sarwar as remarkably popular. Switched off at that point. Go see his interview with martin gesslar on Mandates. Thats the real Sarwar.

There was a bizarre speech made by Humza Yousaf in Holyrood where he targeted white people in leading positions, just due to the fact that they are white. A few strong independence leaning people I knew were concerned with SNP after this and I imagine it affected quite a lot of people too

I thought this one would be obvious. Scandals plus general party fatigue. People wanted a change.

The SNP has in little more than a ten years managed to squander all the progress that previous generations spent decades building up. After finally managing to get a referendum in 2014 they did not convince the Scottish electorate to support independence. They were then handed a thumping great majority and a chance to prove that they could govern a devolved administration instead. As it turned out they just muddled along displaying no evidence that they had any better idea how to run public services than their counterparts in the rest of the UK. Even if SNP voters have not switched to other parties it’s clear that many demonstrated their discontent by refusing to turn up and support them at the ballot box. And no wonder: the harsh truth is that the SNP have failed to deliver self-government and failed to manage devolved government. It the party cannot do either of those things it’s hard to see the point of its continued existence. It’s a disheartening state of affairs. I’ve no idea where the SNP goes from here and I don’t think the current leadership knows either. And that’s another disaster for Scotland.

How long until someone plays bagpipes at westminster? But looking at SNP damn their latest policies & laws are nutts In some cases...

It was simply bad timing for the SNP after after the corruption scandal, which rocked the party, the replacement for Nicola surgeon not being up to the job, The party is back on a more solid footing now with the new leadership but didn’t have time to really establish itself before the election was called, first past the post didn’t help but the council and Scottish parliament is a proportional representation system and will be the real test

I would also add that the SNP is vocally pro EU and Labour have remained silent about Brexit and their consequences.

I think the SNP need the Tories in Westminster in order to exist since that party is their main punching bag

Fact is vote share didn't change that much.. we had one of the lowest voter turnouts in a while Snp ain't finished. And if they are. Independence definitely is not.

They put a MUSLIM in charge of the Party who passed a law banning any criticism of Islam, that’s why

What is interesting is the difference between the SNP approach and that of Sinn Fein in Northern Ireland. The SNP put independence front and centre of its agenda, while Sinn Fein simply allowed their record on social policies to stand for itself, and reunification with the Republic was put on the back burner. Sinn Fein won no extra seats, but they are far and away the largest party in Northern Ireland.

The flag for Northern Ireland at 7:09 is wrong - that’s the flag for the Republic of Ireland! Perhaps you could’ve used the St Patrick’s flag? It’s like Scotland’s flag but a red cross on a white background. That tends to be the most politically neutral.

It’s the Scottish National Party ffs. Jfc guys

It looks like you envited me to your house to talk about Sotich independence XD

As a scot I noticed 2 things. consistent negative press, especially the accounting allegations and the incredibly dragged out timescale of the investigation which may well last until it may prove useful for the next scottish elections.. and then there was the utterly incompetent handling of the green split (which has previously allowed them to remain in government in scotland) and then the resignation of Humza as a result. The delays and way things were handled doesn;t seem logical. It seems to me other forces are at work there. Also most scots simply hated boris johnston and this was reflected in the last election. Overall it's more a return to the norm rather than a collapse.

No mention of the madness over gender self ID playing a large role in their downfall?

It's the Scottish NATIONAL Party, not nationalist

SNP does not stand for Scottish Nationalist Party. They're not nationalists at all.