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1 hour ago, Detournement said:

Motherwell elected a Communist in 1922.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walton_Newbold

Motherwell had a Communist District Councillor as recently as 1984 - Dunfermline had one (Willie Clarke?) into the 90s.

Well aware councils are an awful lot smaller and less significant than constituencies, but the votes have been there.

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The Tory vote dropped by around 20% from the last set of elections.
But in answer to your first question, this is a classic case of nothing to do with being Tories, but everything to do with being Unionists. Dalgety Bay had one of the biggest No voting percentages in Fife in 2014.....it's no surprise to see people there (who may have been Labour or Lib Dem voters) ditching these tradional parties and voting for the most Unionist/Loyalist.
 
 
Looking from afar I'm wondering if the Unionist voting habits have less to do with political conviction than a reliance on jobs in Fife dependent on the Anglo-American Military Complex.

Staying in West Dunbartonshire and knowing the Helensburgh area very well I've come across plenty of folk whose political calculus is entirely based on preserving their jobs at Faslane and Coulport. In this area it amounts to a form of economic blackmail.

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On 07/09/2018 at 16:33, Granny Danger said:

Fife is a bit of a political conundrum.  The only place in Scotland to ever elect a Communist MP, Willie Gallacher.

It was said that the only two people who ever went to Parliament with good intent were Willie Gallacher and Guy Fawkes.

 

Lost the seat to Willie Hamilton, who’s sole claim to fame was he had a bugbear about the royals. Other than that he was firmly on right wing of the Labour Party. Doubtful anybody other than political geeks even remember him.

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