To all intents and purposes, Farquharson too is calling for a coup – for the people’s free democratic choice to be overridden and replaced by an unknown alternative imposed arbitrarily by an unelected oligarchy comprising him and his mates.
By any sort of measure, Scotland currently wants to be run by the SNP. Journalists and experts have spent years telling us how “sophisticated” the Scottish electorate is, and how well it distinguished between Westminster and Holyrood elections.
“The Scottish electorate has developed a high degree of sophistication in the 15 years since devolution, and has proved adept at differentiating between the circumstances of the different elections in which it participates. “
Well, this sophisticated electorate used AMS to give the Nats a majority in Edinburgh, then it used FPTP to give them 95% of the Scottish seats in the Commons, and now it’s giving them 60%+ in polls.