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:00:00. > :00:00.That's what the parties are saying in this Holyrood election.

:00:07. > :00:30.Voters are working out how to game-play

:00:31. > :00:39.We'll power through the energy issues facing our future law-makers

:00:40. > :00:48.has been speaking about her stalking nightmare.

:00:49. > :00:56.as she campaigns for more awareness of this frightening crime.

:00:57. > :01:03.My stalker would phone me in the middle of the night, silent phone

:01:04. > :01:06.calls 56 times. And some of the best psychological thrillers start off

:01:07. > :01:10.with a phone call. That it was not knowing what this person was going

:01:11. > :01:15.to do next, or would he carry out his threats?

:01:16. > :01:18.It's a bit more confusing than a Westminster election.

:01:19. > :01:20.Even now, people are filling in their postal votes

:01:21. > :01:21.and remembering that, of course,

:01:22. > :01:27.you get two ballot papers in this election.

:01:28. > :01:30.The main parties are keen that you back them in the constituency

:01:31. > :01:33.But how might that work out in the ballot box?

:01:34. > :01:42.here's Suzanne Allan with our Holyrood voter's manual.

:01:43. > :01:48.When you go into the polling booths, you will have two votes. One for a

:01:49. > :01:53.constituency seat and the other for what is known as the list, or

:01:54. > :01:56.regional board. Our electoral system, a form of proportional

:01:57. > :02:02.representation, was designed to make sure nobody could ever dominate the

:02:03. > :02:06.parliament. So how does it work. There are 129 MSPs. 73 of those are

:02:07. > :02:12.constituency seats. This is your first vote. The candidate with the

:02:13. > :02:17.most wins. The second is for the regional list, of which there are 56

:02:18. > :02:20.seats. It is a way of making sure the number of seats is proportionate

:02:21. > :02:27.to the number of votes cast. What you are voting for is a party, not a

:02:28. > :02:29.person. So is it wise to vote for the same party on board the

:02:30. > :02:33.constituency and the list? Or to tactically vote differently with

:02:34. > :02:38.your second vote? The system was designed to lead to a coalition

:02:39. > :02:41.government but we want bold, in 2011, the SNP won an outright

:02:42. > :02:44.majority. Since the independence referendum, the party has gained

:02:45. > :02:49.even more ground. You just need to look at their landslide victory in

:02:50. > :02:52.last's general election. In general, the better a party govern the

:02:53. > :02:56.constituency vote, the less likely it is to pick up a regional vote. A

:02:57. > :03:03.party needs just 6% of the board to get a seat on the list. Is the

:03:04. > :03:06.message coming from the SMB and most of the other parties asking you to

:03:07. > :03:08.back them twice a good idea or a wasted vote?

:03:09. > :03:10.Joining me tonight for analysis are two political scientists -

:03:11. > :03:12.Professor John Curtice from Strathclyde University

:03:13. > :03:17.and Dr Craig McAngus from Aberdeen University.

:03:18. > :03:26.Good evening to both of you. That is joining me. That was our borders'

:03:27. > :03:33.manual, there. -- falters manual. I will we are people of the voting

:03:34. > :03:36.system for Holyrood? Very few people understand what is the system for

:03:37. > :03:40.allocating regional list of feeds off the back of the last boat and

:03:41. > :03:43.indeed it is often misnamed the second vote. That is exactly the

:03:44. > :03:47.words that you used at the top of this programme. It is not a second

:03:48. > :03:51.thought. It is the last board, which of the two is most likely to be the

:03:52. > :03:53.more important. So far as determining the overall distribution

:03:54. > :04:02.of thoughts and seats in the Holyrood Parliament. -- limit.

:04:03. > :04:06.It is the second vote you cast but it is not the second preference.

:04:07. > :04:09.Steve Mac that is correct. And certainly there is some evidence

:04:10. > :04:12.from looking at the polling data from the opinion polls that when

:04:13. > :04:16.they get called up by telephone or asked to fill in an Internet pal and

:04:17. > :04:20.-- poll and they asked who they will vote for, and then they tell them

:04:21. > :04:24.you have another ballot paper, even perhaps if they are told by the

:04:25. > :04:28.pollster you can vote the same way if you want to do, some people it

:04:29. > :04:31.looks as though get a second preference. And certainly, if you

:04:32. > :04:34.look at the success or otherwise of the opinion polls on the 2011

:04:35. > :04:38.election, the principal reason why we did not anticipate that the SNP

:04:39. > :04:43.would get an overall majority given the polls was that the polls

:04:44. > :04:46.underestimated SMB support on the last foot. They pretty much got the

:04:47. > :04:51.constituency vote right but underestimated on the list. Almost

:04:52. > :04:54.undoubtedly because of the work of any second preference. One of the

:04:55. > :04:58.things I see is at the moment in the opinion polls is quite a lot of them

:04:59. > :05:01.have quite a big difference between the SNP constituency vote and last

:05:02. > :05:06.fought, even though in practice five years ago there was only one point

:05:07. > :05:09.difference between them. -- last fought. So certainly there is reason

:05:10. > :05:16.to be a little but more sceptical than ever about the list vote.

:05:17. > :05:20.Are the parties playing the second thought, the list vote in this

:05:21. > :05:24.election? What is the strategy was to both boats is a phrase that is

:05:25. > :05:32.coming up quite a lot. The SNP are trying to lock out s. That worked

:05:33. > :05:35.very well for them in 2011. -- both vote boot. The list and a wispy

:05:36. > :05:41.effort of a safety net for a party that does not do as well and some

:05:42. > :05:45.constituencies as hoped, the last can top up some seats. Labour are

:05:46. > :05:52.going to rely on the regional list vote to win representation. It is

:05:53. > :05:59.the Greens are almost entirely standing on the list. Patrick Harvie

:06:00. > :06:01.is one notable exception. So this election, because the SNP are doing

:06:02. > :06:06.so well on the constituency polling, as we can see, and they will

:06:07. > :06:09.probably win as it looks just now, most of the constituencies in

:06:10. > :06:14.Scotland then the list is going to be very important for the other

:06:15. > :06:19.parties in gaining representation. But why do you think when the SNP,

:06:20. > :06:23.the suggestion is that they will do so well, why do you think that has

:06:24. > :06:30.been such a focus for them go to the # of votes SMB? That might SNP. It

:06:31. > :06:39.was the theme of the conference in Glasgow. Again, I think it is SNP

:06:40. > :06:44.have been on a journey since 1999 in terms of using illegal system that

:06:45. > :06:47.benefits them. If you look back at 1999, you see the won a handful of

:06:48. > :06:52.constituency seats and then quite a lot of regional list seats and that

:06:53. > :06:58.balances shifted. I think it is just a party that is on top that wants to

:06:59. > :07:02.remain on top. And using a very simple, clear message to supporters

:07:03. > :07:07.to make sure that you get as in government again and get a majority

:07:08. > :07:10.government again. It is a very basic strategy but it is clearly seems to

:07:11. > :07:16.be working. John, we will get onto the issue of a wasted vote in a

:07:17. > :07:20.second but before that, do you think with the system was envisaged that

:07:21. > :07:25.the people who designed it would ever envisage it being played out

:07:26. > :07:29.this way? To suggest that the system was designed as opposed to

:07:30. > :07:32.negotiated as a copyright between Labour and the Lib Dems would be a

:07:33. > :07:37.mistake. This is a negotiated system. -- negotiated between Labour

:07:38. > :07:40.and the Lib Dems. It was a compromise between the Labour Party

:07:41. > :07:43.that wanted to minimise the degree of proportionality and the Lib Dems,

:07:44. > :07:49.who wanted to maximise it. As a result, we ended up with a system

:07:50. > :07:51.where everybody does do very well in the constituencies in a region, one

:07:52. > :07:56.of the aid regions into which Scotland is divided, it is possible

:07:57. > :08:00.that even if it gets a lot of last boat but it will not get any list

:08:01. > :08:03.seats. This in a sense of the tactical dilemma that the system

:08:04. > :08:09.potentially creates. The truth is that one crucial reason why the SNP

:08:10. > :08:14.have gone for that # is that they are aware of the discussion in

:08:15. > :08:19.Nationalist circles that is the SNP gets sexy men

:08:20. > :08:26.-- if the SNP gets a lot of constituency seats, it might not be

:08:27. > :08:30.entitled to any more or less to see the wider we not consider him for

:08:31. > :08:34.another party that supports independence question mark at the

:08:35. > :08:36.end of the day, they may not do as well as the poll suggesting

:08:37. > :08:41.constituencies and maybe reliant on the majority list seats and

:08:42. > :08:45.secondly, it is at risk of being a self of selling property. If people

:08:46. > :08:48.do not vote for the last on the SNP that indeed they will not get any

:08:49. > :08:53.more additional seats. -- self-fulfilling prophecy. But if

:08:54. > :08:55.they bought on the list in as strong numbers they do in the

:08:56. > :08:59.constituencies then they might get one or two MSPs in the region. That

:09:00. > :09:03.is why the SNP do not want to do it but you can certainly the world has

:09:04. > :09:11.been speculation about Hamon, maybe we want to consider doing something

:09:12. > :09:13.else. -- speculation about Hamon. I'm willing and an Internet as an

:09:14. > :09:17.proportionality and substance of the be thanking their lucky stars that

:09:18. > :09:21.there is a proportionality in the system at the moment. If you look at

:09:22. > :09:25.the proposals for the Scottish assembly back in the 1970s, the

:09:26. > :09:31.referendum in 1979, that was a purely tourist pass the post system

:09:32. > :09:34.-- first past the post. There was a copyright between Labour and the Lib

:09:35. > :09:39.Dems for the creation of the Scottish Parliament. So yes, I would

:09:40. > :09:45.imagine that Labour are, you know, venting their lucky stars, if you

:09:46. > :09:50.like, that the list if they are because they are really doing very,

:09:51. > :09:56.very badly in the constituency vote. And it is ironic in a way that

:09:57. > :09:59.Labour are perhaps the party that has not adapted to the electoral

:10:00. > :10:06.system most effectively, given that in 2011 many of their constituency

:10:07. > :10:13.MPs were not backed up on the list, if you like, whereas the SNP of

:10:14. > :10:16.consistency, -- have consistently done that, known as dual candle in

:10:17. > :10:19.there. So those who were defeated in 2011 were not able to return on the

:10:20. > :10:20.list. Labour have learned their lessons from that. -- dual

:10:21. > :10:22.candidacy. Energy policy has long been

:10:23. > :10:25.at the heart of political More recently, renewable sources

:10:26. > :10:29.of power have been generating discussion at Holyrood -

:10:30. > :10:31.hydro, wind, solar, wave and tidal. So what are the challenges

:10:32. > :10:34.and opportunities facing us Our environment correspondent,

:10:35. > :10:59.David Miller, reports. East Lothian, September 20 15. And

:11:00. > :11:05.another coal-fired power station bites the dust. We are witnessing a

:11:06. > :11:10.revolution. I see that the reaction is positive, no objections. The

:11:11. > :11:15.Paris agreement is adopted. A revolution driven by the need to

:11:16. > :11:21.cut greenhouse gas emissions. This woman is a global leader in the

:11:22. > :11:27.fight against global warming. Thank you. And despite the Scottish

:11:28. > :11:32.Government's repeated failure to hit it on climate change targets, she

:11:33. > :11:39.argues Scotland is a leader as well. Because of the switch to low carbon,

:11:40. > :11:46.renewable sources of energy. Once we have a target, and we focus and we

:11:47. > :11:50.bring together private sector ingenuity, financing and policy, we

:11:51. > :11:56.can actually meet and exceed targets... Although, forgive me, the

:11:57. > :12:01.interim targets are being missed. How much of a concern is that? What

:12:02. > :12:05.you have to look at here is what is in the direction of travel. And the

:12:06. > :12:09.direction of travel is fundamentally very sound. And there is a huge

:12:10. > :12:14.political commitment to continue this. So I am not so concerned

:12:15. > :12:17.about, you know, the little ebbs and flows. What I look at is underneath,

:12:18. > :12:26.what is the direction? Industry analysts agree real

:12:27. > :12:32.progress has been made. Liberal figures released in March

:12:33. > :12:38.that we are now considerably above the 50% target which the government

:12:39. > :12:41.had set itself of electricity demands being made from renewable

:12:42. > :12:45.sources. But he warned cuts in subsidies and

:12:46. > :12:52.lamented by Westminster have cast a shadow on the sector has been quite

:12:53. > :12:55.a chilling effect. A number of projects we were working on normal

:12:56. > :12:59.to be instructed not been cancelled or will not go ahead in the current

:13:00. > :13:05.form. Uncertainty for renewables, yes. But

:13:06. > :13:09.the days when all was King are definitely over. Even the mighty

:13:10. > :13:19.coal-fired power station in Fife is no more.

:13:20. > :13:25.Speaker made things move on. We will have to move on. That is it. No

:13:26. > :13:32.more, as they say. Somebody wrote a song about that.

:13:33. > :13:36.Its closure means we are now more reliant on our wind farms than ever

:13:37. > :13:40.before. And for some, that is a serious cause for concern.

:13:41. > :13:46.Renewables cannot be taken as our base load. For example, in February,

:13:47. > :13:51.and March, there were days when there was no renewable input of any

:13:52. > :13:57.size to our electricity generation. So you're really relying on

:13:58. > :14:00.importing electricity, probably nuclear, from France. It is

:14:01. > :14:03.important that we both that myth. The cross-party committee on the

:14:04. > :14:07.Scottish ballad, the energy committee, did that conclusively

:14:08. > :14:11.last summer. The two dividends from whole range of stake holders,

:14:12. > :14:14.industry and academia, that shall do is not a security of supply risk in

:14:15. > :14:18.Scotland as a consequence of renewables but renewables have

:14:19. > :14:22.played a hugely renewable, important role in keeping our lights on as

:14:23. > :15:09.part of the GP grid. The controversial power

:15:10. > :15:13.That is going to be a big challenge. -- eating houses.

:15:14. > :16:39.The power of Scotland, it matters to all of us.

:16:40. > :16:41.The power of Scotland, it matters to point out to the police. Through

:16:42. > :16:49.time, living with that uncertainty, the not knowing what was going to

:16:50. > :16:53.happen, when, impacted on my mental health. Anxiety, hypervigilance,

:16:54. > :16:58.stressed, and then ultimately that started to impact on my physical

:16:59. > :17:03.health. My hair started to fall out, sleepless nights, but then my

:17:04. > :17:08.stalker would follow me in the middle of the night, silent phone

:17:09. > :17:12.calls five, six times. Some of the best psychological thrillers start

:17:13. > :17:17.off with a phone call. It was not knowing what this person was going

:17:18. > :17:22.to do next, or, would he carry out his threats? That's not snowing,

:17:23. > :17:25.uncertainty. And so, in the end, I was suffering from nervous

:17:26. > :17:30.exhaustion, as well. Mental and physical health are interlinked, you

:17:31. > :17:36.can't give presidents of one of the other. Such a difficult time. You

:17:37. > :17:40.had a difficult time with the justice system. There was no such a

:17:41. > :17:45.crime of stalking at that time. They didn't recognise those nonmaterial

:17:46. > :17:51.behaviours as part of a criminal offence. The system at that time

:17:52. > :17:57.mandated a physical attack before anything could be done. It is

:17:58. > :18:02.recognising that is what is objective, observable, and what is

:18:03. > :18:09.tangible. How would you define stalking? When does some type of

:18:10. > :18:11.behaviour start to become unacceptable and become frightening?

:18:12. > :18:16.Stalking is a wide range of behaviours. A lot of stalking

:18:17. > :18:21.behaviours are some of the normal social activities that we engage in

:18:22. > :18:27.everyday. Texting, phoning, letters. Noncriminal behaviour is out with in

:18:28. > :18:32.a normal context, but placed within a stalking context, they started to

:18:33. > :18:36.take on a different meaning. Stalking is two or more behaviours

:18:37. > :18:43.to form what is known as a course of conduct. If these behaviours give

:18:44. > :18:48.rise to fear or alarm in the victim, then that defines a crime. Stalking

:18:49. > :18:52.is a victim defined crime. We have had legislation in Scotland against

:18:53. > :18:58.stalking. How does that compare to legislation they have in England? It

:18:59. > :19:01.is practically the same. In Scotland, we made a specific

:19:02. > :19:05.stand-alone offence. We wanted to take it out of harassment because

:19:06. > :19:09.stalking is not harassment. It shares many of the same behaviours,

:19:10. > :19:16.but it has a different mode, motive, perspective. We has to clear up some

:19:17. > :19:21.of the conceptual confusion that surrounds these two concepts.

:19:22. > :19:30.England and Wales, on the other hand, they introduced an amendment

:19:31. > :19:35.of stalking into the existing 1997 harassment act. In Scotland, we have

:19:36. > :19:43.harassment as a subspecies of stalking. As a lower test case. In

:19:44. > :19:47.England and Wales, they have stalking as a subspecies of

:19:48. > :19:55.harassment. You had to go through some special measures of justice and

:19:56. > :20:00.that has informed that legislation. It was my experience that did inform

:20:01. > :20:02.the legislation. I walked the path, experienced the system. I

:20:03. > :20:07.experienced the response by the police, I could understand the

:20:08. > :20:15.impact, I could understand the subtle nuances of stalking. What was

:20:16. > :20:19.very different did leg difficult for me at the time was in was no one I

:20:20. > :20:23.could appeal to for help. -- what was difficult for me. It was not

:20:24. > :20:31.recognised as a criminal offence. The police at that time did not seem

:20:32. > :20:35.to recognise the victim impact. The fear that I was experiencing, my

:20:36. > :20:41.reaction to these behaviours, didn't raise concern either because, from

:20:42. > :20:46.the outside eye, they could not see there was a big problem. How do you

:20:47. > :20:51.think future legislation might help victims of stalking, and how do you

:20:52. > :20:57.think the police can be educated to help victims of stalking? When the

:20:58. > :21:01.Scottish offence of stalking went through the Scottish parliament,

:21:02. > :21:06.that was a day of celebration, and that was my ultimate goal, to have

:21:07. > :21:11.stalking defined as a specific criminal offence within Scottish law

:21:12. > :21:17.and to have victims recognised within the criminal justice process.

:21:18. > :21:23.These were the two objectives, and that piece of legislation achieved

:21:24. > :21:26.those two objectives, but then there was the realisation that a piece of

:21:27. > :21:31.legislation alone doesn't mean anything. It's a piece of paper

:21:32. > :21:35.ball. What was needed -- it's a piece of paper. What was needed for

:21:36. > :21:43.that legislation required a lot of training. Not just for the forces,

:21:44. > :21:46.but also public education. Because a lot of people don't understand

:21:47. > :21:51.stalking. The general public don't understand it. The police didn't

:21:52. > :21:56.understand it. We had to a line that with education, awareness, to allow

:21:57. > :22:01.them to implement the law. In fairness to the police, they do a

:22:02. > :22:08.very good job and they really do need training on this. It is unfair

:22:09. > :22:13.asking any officer to attend any call-out of a stalking case if they

:22:14. > :22:19.don't have that understanding and knowledge. It's understandable why

:22:20. > :22:22.the they are maybe not recognising it as this course of conduct. Thank

:22:23. > :22:23.you very much for joining us. Now with me this evening to discuss

:22:24. > :22:27.some of the other big stories around today is the Scotland on Sunday's

:22:28. > :22:29.columnist Dani Garavelli and the Political Editor

:22:30. > :22:37.of the Daily Record, Good evening to you both. Thank you

:22:38. > :22:38.for joining me. Let's get to our first story.

:22:39. > :22:41.Judges at the Court of Appeal have lifted an injunction which bans

:22:42. > :22:43.media organisations from revealing the identity of a married celebrity,

:22:44. > :22:48.But they also ruled the man should not be named until he's had

:22:49. > :22:52.The case has raised questions about how privacy injunctions can be

:22:53. > :22:56.Here's the BBC's media correspondent - David Silito -

:22:57. > :23:03.reporting from outside the Court of Appeal earlier.

:23:04. > :23:10.In essence, what has changed is the information has got out in places

:23:11. > :23:14.where the injunction has no force. Scotland, America, the internets.

:23:15. > :23:18.The judges said, this means the legal landscape has changed. Many

:23:19. > :23:22.say if it is finally lifted because of this, we have a recipe that would

:23:23. > :23:29.undermine any celebrity injunction. A major shift in the law of privacy.

:23:30. > :23:36.David, Festival, a changing landscape and David picking up on

:23:37. > :23:40.the situation in Scotland. A Scottish Sunday newspaper named the

:23:41. > :23:43.celebrities involved. It did because of the legal situation here. More

:23:44. > :23:46.importantly, it is all of the Internet. We are in the ridiculous

:23:47. > :23:49.situation at the moment where everybody watching the programme

:23:50. > :23:54.knows who we are talking about, but we cannot say their names. A lawyer

:23:55. > :23:58.involved said to the courts that we were in danger of making it a law of

:23:59. > :24:01.the press. That is not the case. It is the law of the Internet, the

:24:02. > :24:05.Internet makes these injunctions unenforceable because they are

:24:06. > :24:08.everywhere. Unless you are going to try to regulate the Internet, which

:24:09. > :24:12.is something that no one has an appetite for and most people think

:24:13. > :24:16.is impossible, the idea that these injunctions can have any effect on

:24:17. > :24:21.media organisations is absurd. Danny, we have been uniform. In

:24:22. > :24:29.2011, the Ryan Giggs case. The case of Jack Straw's Sun was named in

:24:30. > :24:34.Scotland but not in England in 1999. Yes, I realise this is setting some

:24:35. > :24:37.legal precedent, but there have been many cases in which injunctions have

:24:38. > :24:40.been shown to be more or less futile either because the injunction has

:24:41. > :24:43.been overturned because they have just ended up attracting more

:24:44. > :24:48.publicity to the people involved than they had in the first place.

:24:49. > :24:53.Or, I think in one case, there was the reuse of parliamentary privilege

:24:54. > :24:56.to expose the case. I think we have known for along time that it would

:24:57. > :25:04.this direction and the internets, as David says, makes it impossible to

:25:05. > :25:07.enforce them. David, the courts must be worried. Lord Justice Jackson had

:25:08. > :25:12.said the courts should not make orders which are ineffective. It is

:25:13. > :25:15.becoming ineffective. It is if it is only going to be news outlets you

:25:16. > :25:21.are dealing with. People are publishing all the time online

:25:22. > :25:24.themselves. Takes you 30 seconds to Google who we are discussing just

:25:25. > :25:29.now. In that case, it is clearly ineffective. It is not ineffective

:25:30. > :25:34.because of anything newspapers and brokers media are doing, it is the

:25:35. > :25:39.nature of the world we live in. It's kind is -- it's kind of makes us

:25:40. > :25:42.need to re-evaluate what we want as a privacy law and how we will

:25:43. > :25:46.enforce one if we want to have one. Another big story today was the

:25:47. > :25:47.European Union will stop the Chancellor was giving some detail

:25:48. > :26:03.about how much Brexit could cost. Britain will be poor by ?4300 per

:26:04. > :26:08.household. That is ?4300 worth of every year. This company is giving,

:26:09. > :26:12.at the moment, ?20 billion every year to the EU. ?350 million per

:26:13. > :26:18.week, which we would get back and be able to spend that solid hard cash.

:26:19. > :26:26.?4300 worse off per year. Does this bring back the referendum of 2014 to

:26:27. > :26:31.mind? It seems familiar. It does, and they are pursuing almost

:26:32. > :26:34.identical tactics, it seems. They seem to be focusing on the possible

:26:35. > :26:39.negative consequences instead of trying to find some kind of division

:26:40. > :26:43.-- vision of Europe that might inspire people. That is difficult to

:26:44. > :26:49.produce excitement over what is basically the status quo. It allows

:26:50. > :26:53.the other side to accuse them of scaremongering and not providing

:26:54. > :26:56.something positive. David, perhaps there isn't that positive vision.

:26:57. > :27:00.They are looking at the bare facts and figures. The UK Government may

:27:01. > :27:06.be not going for the kind of case about the European Union. The thing

:27:07. > :27:09.I found offensive is during the independence referendum, or I think

:27:10. > :27:14.there was a legitimate case about risks and the potential dangers of a

:27:15. > :27:18.vote for Scottish independence and the impact on the economy, the fact

:27:19. > :27:22.they have decided they will come up with some bizarre calculation to put

:27:23. > :27:27.a pound p figure on it every year, which is on those just by looking at

:27:28. > :27:32.it is clearly nonsense, I think it undermines the case in other ways.

:27:33. > :27:34.The other, and while this is very familiar to anyone who lived through

:27:35. > :27:38.the independence referendum here, I think one of the differences here, I

:27:39. > :27:43.remember sitting in a press conference in May 2014 when Danny

:27:44. > :27:47.Alexander, long since departed, said it was going to cost ?1400 if there

:27:48. > :27:50.was a vote for Scottish independence. The difference then

:27:51. > :27:54.was it was his opponents who are calling him a liar whenever you read

:27:55. > :27:58.the story the next day. His Tory colleagues are calling David Cameron

:27:59. > :28:01.and George Osborne Alaia tomorrow, saying they are making these norms.

:28:02. > :28:06.They have got some difficulty. The other problem they have is that all

:28:07. > :28:10.the media down south, the London papers, tomorrow, will splash on the

:28:11. > :28:14.fact that the calculation relies on 3 million net migration by 2030 and

:28:15. > :28:18.they don't want to get into it. An interesting figure. At the beginning

:28:19. > :28:23.of the programme, we spoke about the list of vote. Perhaps this theme of

:28:24. > :28:28.wasted votes. What did you make of that? I think that is, first of all,

:28:29. > :28:32.there are still many people out there who don't understand. I think

:28:33. > :28:36.the fact we are having a debate is very positive because the

:28:37. > :28:39.explanation will allow people to think about what they are doing with

:28:40. > :28:44.their vote but carefully. I think from listening to everything, it

:28:45. > :28:47.would be difficult to tactically voted with the list, but I'm not

:28:48. > :28:51.sure that is the only reason that people would split their boat. I

:28:52. > :28:56.think there really are people who care about diversity in Scottish

:28:57. > :28:59.Parliament. It might just give their list vote to a smaller party because

:29:00. > :29:04.they want them to be represented. They want other voices in Parliament

:29:05. > :29:11.and a more pluralistic vision. David, do you think people have got

:29:12. > :29:15.how to use the vote? No, unless you are a political geek. It is

:29:16. > :29:18.difficult to explain simply and the implications of it are pretty much

:29:19. > :29:24.impossible to predict without knowing how the constituency votes

:29:25. > :29:28.will go. Trying to game the system is a no-go. It is interesting that

:29:29. > :29:32.this argument has been developed over the last few days in regards to

:29:33. > :29:36.the pro-independence movements and whether they should just vote for

:29:37. > :29:40.the SNP or the other parties because I remember hearing a lot during the

:29:41. > :29:44.referendum campaign that the yes movement was wider than the SNP. The

:29:45. > :29:45.SNP don't seem to think that is the case. Thank you for joining me.

:29:46. > :29:50.Shelley's back here tomorrow with that special debate on energy.

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