Scottish Politics / Independence - Vol 12
Discussion
Catweazle said:
Na h-Eileanan an Iar goes to Labour. I thought they were dyed in the wool SNP.
But the SNP kicked out their longstanding MP - Angus macNeil. He criticised the leadership, got suspended and didn't go back. A classic example of SNP authoritarian tendencies coming back to bite them. https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/23657230.angus...
He stood as an indy but lost. The Labour candidate was well known as a former journalist I think and is a Lewis native so a really strong candidate.
k. Tiresome pub bore Stephen Gethins gets parachuted into Arbroath & Broughty Ferry and manages to win it. irc said:
Pete Wishart comfortable hold in Perth and Kinross. Lack of tactical voting by Labour and the reform votes.
Poo. Still, if they are down to eight seats they are even more bankrupt now than they were before. With Swinney at the helm, it's not going to improve in the pretendy parliament.
SNP: this is a message, we have to listen to what we’re being told by the people.
Also SNP: this is not a vote on us, we’re just unlucky that loads of seats which voted SNP last time voted Labour to get rid of the… Conservatives.
I hope they continue to listen as well as that going forward,
Also SNP: this is not a vote on us, we’re just unlucky that loads of seats which voted SNP last time voted Labour to get rid of the… Conservatives.
I hope they continue to listen as well as that going forward,
Snow and Rocks said:
A.J.M said:
Morning everyone.
Who’s still going strong?
Still going here - was waiting to make sure Aberdeenshire turned a nice shade of blue. Douglas Ross ruined that slightly, but, being honest, he deserved to go after the arse he made of his campaign. Who’s still going strong?
Roderick Spode said:
Yup, still enjoying myself here. Hoping Alistair Carmichael is returned in Orkney & Shetland for the Lib Dems, he's a decent guy. Of the remaining Scottish seats hoping that the borders will stay blue, and somehow the last North East seats don't go to the SNP. Really hoping the SNP are reduced to single figures. Keith Brown on the Beeb just now saying "aye but but we were on six seats back in 2007, then we won loads..." The delusion is still strong within the bunker.
Branchform, Keith. Branchform.
Roderick Spode said:
Yup, still enjoying myself here. Hoping Alistair Carmichael is returned in Orkney & Shetland for the Lib Dems, he's a decent guy. Of the remaining Scottish seats hoping that the borders will stay blue, and somehow the last North East seats don't go to the SNP. Really hoping the SNP are reduced to single figures. Keith Brown on the Beeb just now saying "aye but but we were on six seats back in 2007, then we won loads..." The delusion is still strong within the bunker.
Glad to see you are still conscious, i'm just home off the back of a 12 hour night shift and as i saw the results coming in during breaks for up here i was genuinely worried you might have alcohol poisoning by now going on the dram per SNP loss formula 
It's the highlight of this election for me and i genuinely hope the rabbit in the headlights look that Starmer was sporting just before giving his speech is not a sign of things to come ( whoever thought a UK election campaign strategy of just say nothing would be a winner). I remember where the last Labour rout ended up, with some councils being run with levels of corruption that would put some of the outgoing shysters to shame. I didn't expect Reform to get an MP and they got far more votes than i would have liked, but so did the Tories and the SNP despite their pasting (WTF is wrong with our neighbours in Perth and Kinross ?) and i suspect the turn out UK wide is going to be abysmal.
Labour really do have a job on their hands. For me we are in a transitional phase that will hopefully see the old left and right parties finally put to sleep and something new and better emerge but there is just as much chance we might be in for some instability and some unpleasant people being elected, if as i suspect Labour stay on the current path that both they and the Tories have been treading in terms of net zero and high levels of immigration.
Both will come to a head in the not too distant future as the cost of net zero starts biting and there is no chance Labour can create the huge level of infrastructure that's required to support the increase in population we have seen in the last twenty years along with what is to come in the next five years.
At least it looks like this might be the final nail in the SNP coffin, certainly for a few generations (i mean generations in the traditional sense as well, not the SNP five minute generation) and hopefully for good. At the end they showed just what a nasty, spiteful, hypocritical bunch they really are and due to them politicising Police Scotland hopefully the regime change will see a few of them in jail.
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