Meanwhile, my alphabetical odyssey of the 73 Scottish Parliament constituencies for The National alighted in my own home constituency of Cumbernauld & Kilsyth on Sunday, and since then I've also done Cunninghame North and Cunninghame South.
You might be interested in some feedback I received by email about the Cunninghame North profile yesterday, and in particular my reference to the ballot papers from Arran getting wet in 2007 -
"I was at the count which was being conducted via ballot counting machines. Prior to the arrival of the Arran ballots Labour were very narrowly in the lead (the count was being displayed electronically as ballots were being fed into the machines).
We, in the SNP, were by now reasonably confident of victory because Arran, from our canvassing, had appeared to be behind Kenneth but we knew the end result would be very close.
I made sure I was next to the machine into which the ballots would be fed and what happened was that quite a few couldn't be input at first and one of the Labour activists joked that "maybe they fell overboard". The technician inputting the ballots explained that the ballots weren't wet but just damp due to the night air. In the end all the ballots were successfully input and the result was victory for Kenneth by 48 votes.
It was only in the days after the result that Labour resorted to smears including that the Arran votes had been tampered with using the "wet ballots" as evidence!"
I and others called Campbell out at the time. His cut and paste approach was good at highlighting the lies and contradictions of the No campaign, but his deliberately obnoxious and aggressive delivery style were a gift to the no side and a major contributor to their Nasty SNP line of attack. The BBC loved him for that very reason, and he knew it. He would say anything and behave in any way that would further his personal interests. He still does, and has made a very good living from it. His cult following continues sending him money, and they swallow anything he says without question. His one benefit to Indy is that he attracts the extreme lunatic element of the Indy movement, and contains them. The comments on his site by his followers beggar belief.
ReplyDeletefrom the very beginning Campbell was always helping the no side,
ReplyDeletehe first had to appear to be pro yes! To build up a following, then twist their beliefs to his true way, and extremist right winged hatred way
He by definition, has always been the unionists modern day
'LORD Haw Haw' (younger people google this😀)