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😀)
So says Dr Jim at 12.00pm who disnae believe in conspiracy theories unless he makes them up. Campbell has many faults Jimbo but he, unlike you, has not boasted about assaulting many women.
DeleteYou have no clue who that guy is IFS, you call everybody you don't like Dr Jim clearly making it obvious that you're a liar and a troll
DeleteSo anon troll and liar at 9.14pm - I don't like you and a large number of trolls who post on SGP but you ain't all Dr Jim and I don't call all of you Dr Jim. Therefore you are the liar and a right thicko.
DeleteNow that I have established you are a right numpty. Let's check out your character and values. Question - do you think Jimbo is right to have assaulted many women and boasted about it? A simple yes or no will suffice. No need to exhaust your limited ability.
Some may say off point. I don't.
ReplyDeleteSo the travesty of the Oscars is over for another carbon-creating year. All the glamorous men and women are off to parties with their prize that looks like a piece of tat you'd pick up in Poundstretcher.
So let's consider a devastating fact. Not one of the prizewinners identified as gender non-conforming. Not one as non-binary. And not one as self-assigning. NOT ONE.
Just let that sink in for a minute.
What kind of hell are we living in that the authorities seek to deal humans in this way?
NOT ONE PRIZEWINNER!
Hiya Stewie
DeleteLabour were talking about challenging the result for quite some time. It was close, every vote really did count, double you could say - mine and my wife's could have made it 44 votes, and you'd only need 25 people to have voted Labour instead of SNP, and no very successful minority SNP government, no overall majority in 2011, and no Referendum in 2014.
ReplyDeleteI've no idea if he'd have got in on the List instead all the same.
Court challenges aren't popular so in the end Labour "gracefully" accepted the result. The ballots are stored for a year just in case. A lot of rumours around here about skulduggery on the ferry of course. More than the usual :-)
Ach, this is the wrong question (from elsewhere) but you see it far too often:
ReplyDelete"I’d love to understand why people are still against Independence."
The NOes I know mostly are NOT against Independence, but they're doing OK, well off, getting by just about, or even hoping and working hard to get by in the future. What they don't want is the risk of change. And for most, it's as simple as that.
You really don't get out much do you Indyref
DeleteSo the Assisted Dying Bill has failed.
ReplyDeleteOne thing is for sure, those MSPs who voted against it are NOT reflecting the wishes and demands of a majority of Scots in every single constituency they represent, who very clearly wanted it to pass.
What the vast majority of we Scots wanted has been denied tonight and we should all be disgusted at that outcome.
Another Bill can be put forward in the next parliament and I hope it will be, but a better alternative, given the massive importance of this matter to every single person living in Scotland, would be to put it to Scots in a referendum. At least that would ensure that what the majority of us want is properly reflected in the result.
Gutted at that result, as will be most of my countryfolk.
Oh come off it. Even Ross Greer acknowledged the polling was dodgy and that each side was getting the result they wanted by framing the question to suit themselves.
DeleteThe bill was never going to pass it was too personal and Holyrood likes these things imposed on them so they can complain about things being imposed on them
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