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We’d actually planned to leave Chris Cairns’ fabulous cartoon at the top of the front page all day today, but this post is important so we’re putting it in here again (no, Chris, you don’t get paid twice) so we can say this.

Because no matter how much you hate the Unionist parties or certain of their individual MSPs, if you want Alba MSPs elected today there are several seats where you really, really can’t afford to vote SNP on the constituency ballot.

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    • Alf Baird on And Nothing Happened Forever: “Excellent analysis Northcode. Which we might extend further, thanks to the post-referendum survey, which found that those identifying primarily as…May 11, 21:03
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