You voted Labour to get the Tories out. You held your nose, ignored your doubts, and told yourself that anything was better than another five years of Conservative rule. You weren’t wrong to want change—but you were lied to about where it would come from. Because here we are. The Tories are out, but nothing’s changed for Scotland.

The two-child cap is still there. PIP and Universal Credit are still being cut. The Winter Fuel Allowance has been slashed. The Scottish budget is still being strangled in real terms. And Grangemouth our last oil refinery is being left to die while Westminster rushes through emergency legislation to save Scunthorpe.

You didn’t vote to save Scotland in July 2024. You voted to save Westminster. And that’s the difference.

Now there’s another vote coming. And this time, it’s not about getting someone out. It’s about getting Scotland out from under the boot of a system that will never put us first. And now the numbers back it up. A new poll by the Diffley Partnership shows the SNP is on course to win up to 65 constituency seats in the next Holyrood election a near-total sweep.

Labour is projected to fall to just 18 seats. Their worst result. Ever. Not because voters are rushing to one party out of habit but because more and more Scots are finally walking away from the broken promises of London rule. And here’s the key detail: Labour is only set to win one constituency seat Edinburgh Southern. The rest of their seats would come from the regional list. That means with smart, strategic voting voting for Scotland, not just parties we could limit their influence even further. If enough voters unite behind pro-Yes parties on the list, Labour’s total could drop to as low as 10 seats. That’s not fantasy. That’s the system working for us, instead of against us for once.

I wonder what kind of damage we could do to the Tories and Reform in the regions if we all just voted for Scotland on the list.

This isn’t a party surge. This is a shift in national consciousness. Scotland is turning its back on Westminster because Westminster turned its back on Scotland. Labour’s collapse didn’t come out of nowhere. It came after they backed cruel Tory policies and offered no resistance. They supported the two-child cap. They refused to restore winter fuel payments. They voted with the Tories to keep austerity cuts in place. They handed Scottish voters a mirror of Conservative cruelty and expected us to be grateful. And when we asked for help to save Grangemouth, Labour said no.

So when they lose their constituency seats, when the last pillar of their Holyrood presence starts to crack don’t call it a surprise. Call it justice.

The Tories are no better. Their vote is bleeding to Reform UK, which isn’t a protest movement it’s just Westminster nationalism in a new outfit. Reform doesn’t speak for Scotland. It doesn’t care about Scottish jobs, Scottish services, or Scottish democracy. And now, that vote is splitting just enough to let pro-independence candidates go through the middle. It’s happening in Eastwood. It’s happening in West Aberdeenshire. It’s happening in Galloway and Dumfriesshire. The Union is fragmenting and Scotland is starting to notice. That’s where the opportunity lies. Not in triumphalism. But in clarity.

This is the moment to stop voting for Westminster parties and start voting for Scotland. That doesn’t mean loyalty to any one party. It means loyalty to a principle. It means recognising that Holyrood can only protect us if it reflects us not London, not Labour HQ, not whoever happens to be in Number 10. Vote for Scotland is more than a slogan. It’s a strategy.

It means voting SNP in the constituencies if they’re the best placed to win.

It means voting Green or Alba or another Yes party on the list to strengthen the movement.

It means using both of your votes to build a Scottish Parliament that answers only to Scotland.

Not a party monopoly. A national majority.

And if that majority delivers over 50% for pro-independence parties if support for independence climbs to 60% as it’s now trending then what happens next becomes a democratic moment Westminster can no longer bury. Keir Starmer will face a choice. Accept the mandate, or expose the truth: that the United Kingdom is not a union—it’s a cage.

And when that choice comes, it will be you who gave us the power to make it matter.

You who stopped voting for Westminster.

You who stopped hoping for fairness from a rigged system.

You who finally voted for Scotland.

Not because someone told you to. But because it was time. Because one day, we’ll look back at this moment and know it was the shift. The moment Scotland stopped reacting and started deciding.

Vote for the nation.

Vote for your voice.

Vote for Scotland.