Talk:Unionist Party (Scotland)

message: Using "Tory" for the UK party is not the formal title and can we stop this constant change on it.
Glancing through the linked paper I can't immediately see where it says why the term "Tory" should be used instead of Conservative or "Unionist" for the independent party, the latter of which strikes me as the most natural official term.
The Scottish Conservatives website gives the name on the front page as "Scottish Conservatives" - the URL scottishtories dates back some years and the party seems to be moving away from using "Tory". Timrollpickering 00:21, 8 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Name of Scottish and UK party

message: Yep, I'd support that. --Mais oui! 12:21, 11 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Proposed split 

message: I think there might be an issue with the figures given for the parties electoral performance. The % figures from 1945 onwards (and possibly some from before that) are the total tally for both the Unionist Party and the National Liberals. So, for instance, in 1945 the Unionists only received 36.7% of the vote, whilst the table states they received 40.3 (which is the total you get by adding the 36.7% received by the Unionists and the 3.6 received by the National Liberals). MrPenguin20 (talk) 22:08, 18 August 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: Electoral Performance

message: I'm aware that the party potentially existed in a time before any kind of party emblem (in the same way that the party colour is somewhat vague too), but does anyone have any information on any potential party emblem? E.g. like the Unionists version of the Conservatives Flame of Liberty? MrPenguin20 (talk) 13:24, 6 March 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: Party Emblem

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thread_title:  External links modified 

message: The Scottish Party merged with the nationalists in the 1930s and so this can't have had any bearing on the declining support for the Unionists that followed in the wake of the merger between the English Conservatives and the Scottish Unionists in 1965. The first two reasons given were probably true so I left them in. The bit about the dwindling empire was true but if there is any evidence that this fact would have caused a swing to Labour, it was not cited. Centuryofconfusion (talk) 14:50, 13 September 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  The Merger with the Conservatives 

message: The Scottish Party was formed in 1932 by elements within the Scottish Unionist Party who were drawn more to the dominion status that had been formally legalized in the cases of Canada, Australia, South Africa, New Zealand, Newfoundland, and the Irish Free State in the previous year. Nothing in John Buchan's parliamentary speeches suggest that he was sympathetic to dominion status. At the time in question, and until 1934, he was the Scottish Unionist MP for the combined universities constituency. While in 1935 he did take up the position of Governor-general of the Dominion of Canada, there is no cited evidence that he was sympathetic to the Scottish party. The material that was removed seemed to be tangential to the topic of the article. Centuryofconfusion (talk) 23:43, 14 September 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  The Scottish Party 

message: The Suez Crisis section was removed because it contained the unsourced opinion that the Suez Crisis in 1956 somehow had a bearing on the fact that the Scottish Unionists lost votes in the 1964 general election (mainly to Labour and the Liberals). The wider evidence from studying historical election trends suggests that the greater collapse in the unionist vote didn't begin until after the merger with the English Conservatives in 1965, and it wasn't until the 1974 election where North Sea Oil became a factor, that the Scottish Nationalist Party made significant gains for the first time. The Suez section was promoting the unsourced idea that a significant number of Scots only supported union with England in the first place because of the British Empire, and that with the Empire now in decline, more Scots would then wish to end the union with England. More evidence for this unlikely theory would need to be presented before it could be included in the article. Centuryofconfusion (talk) 00:09, 15 September 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  The Suez Crisis 

message: In this sentence 
:"As the British Empire came to an end, so too did the primacy of Protestant associations" 
I don't know what "Protestant associations" means. It's not defined or linked in the article.  Are the associations organized groups, or is this refering to a tendency of Protestants to prefer vote a certain way? Are the associations the "Orange Lodges"? 
Thank you. 
Ttulinsky (talk) 17:19, 16 December 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Define "Protestant associations" for Americans 

message: "the Scottish Orange Order has dealt more stringently with members associating with Loyalist paramilitaries"
Such as? Scotland is a safe haven for Loyalist terrorists. 51.37.190.28 (talk) 19:22, 18 December 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Loyalism