Should we discuss politics on this forum?
Why not? It's off-topic, and given we are discussing it with fellow chess players (I nearly said "amongst friends" but that would be taking it too far"

) it should be comparatively civilised.
Andy Howie wrote:Martin, the polls up here show quite a majority in favour of staying in the EU. Alas not the same across all of uk.
Really? Have you a reference? The You Gov poll in Feb claimed support as 45 In 35 Out 17 don't know. For Scotland the figures were 45 In 34 out 16 don't know - hardly different. There seems to be a high correlation with the “feel-good factor”. Like Matt, I don't believe social attitudes are significantly different north and south of the Rio Tweed; just voting behaviour.
Andy Howie wrote:I should add that I and many of my friends who are SNP party members would like to see PR. Despite our once in a lifetime result last week (which we are still in shock about) we don't like the idea of Scotland being essentially a 1 party state.
Finally, and this is real food for thought. Had 16 year olds been able to vote here as in the Ref, it would have been a 59 seat sweep. The younger generation are predominately SNP supporting Yes voters. As the "Auld Yins" decline in numbers it is a matter of when not If Scotlad becomes independent.
Again, have you a reference? The number of 16/17 year old voters would make up about 2.6% of the enlarged Scottish electorate. So that’s just over 1,000 in Orkney and Shetland, so just about all of them would have had to have voted, and voted for Danus Skene, to unseat Alistair Carmichael. In the Borders and Edinburgh the figure is lower, so the same logic would apply to Mundell in DCT and I don’t think there were even enough in Edinburgh South to have made the difference for McSheepie. We shouldn’t forget half the country didn’t vote SNP, and you are probably 100 times more likely to have voted Tory in Scotland than have played chess.
As has been pointed out before, “Yes” voters were predominantly younger, poorer, city-dwelling and “Scottish”. At least some of these factors will tend to weaken over time.
Anyway, off-off-topic. Andy, what happened in the Keti v Jacob game?