Highland Capital Posted May 2, 2021 Author Share Posted May 2, 2021 I see Bonnie Prince Bob in Edinburgh was getting a lot of support from Alba supporters but he's upset them due to not hating trans people and calling their Dear Leader Rev Stu a bigot. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Inanimate Carbon Rod Posted May 2, 2021 Share Posted May 2, 2021 On 12/04/2021 at 12:59, Turkmenbashi said: Definitely voting for him Looking a the various basic grammar errors on that flyer I share his concerns about Scottish Education given he’s apparently got a PHD and writes like a 12 year old. -1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tamthebam Posted May 8, 2021 Share Posted May 8, 2021 Ironic that a party called Independent Green gets 1690 votes in the South of Scotland 2nd ballot Stauncher than Galloway's party 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Highland Capital Posted July 9, 2021 Author Share Posted July 9, 2021 (edited) I see there's two Highland by-elections coming up in Inverness West and Wick & East Caithness. The Scottish Libertarians are standing in both while the Independence for Scotland Party are standing in Inverness West. Bizarrely, Labour aren't running a candidate in either election. There's also a by-election in Dalry & West Kilbride shortly where Labour are standing and strangely so are the Socialist Labour Party. Edited July 9, 2021 by Highland Capital 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welshbairn Posted July 9, 2021 Share Posted July 9, 2021 (edited) 2 hours ago, Highland Capital said: I see there's two Highland by-elections coming up in Inverness West and Wick & East Caithness. The Scottish Libertarians are standing in both while the Independence for Scotland Party are standing in Inverness West. Bizarrely, Labour aren't running a candidate in either election. There's also a by-election in Dalry & West Kilbride shortly where Labour are standing and strangely so are the Socialist Labour Party. I'll be getting a vote for this. Might be imagining the correlation but Libertarians have the oddest names. Don't know the Independent but they often do well in Inverness. SNP candidate sounds like a solid volunteer in the community type so I'll likely be voting for her unless I hear enough about the other candidates to change my mind, I don't treat local elections like national ones. Edited July 9, 2021 by welshbairn 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Highland Capital Posted August 13, 2021 Author Share Posted August 13, 2021 And I see the results are in from Inverness, the SNP got the highest amount of first preferences but the LibDems were elected by transfers at stage 7. More importantly, the Independence 4 Scotland Party got 42 first preferences and the Libertarians only got 11. The independent got 230 (more than the Greens). 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GordonS Posted August 13, 2021 Share Posted August 13, 2021 4 hours ago, Highland Capital said: And I see the results are in from Inverness, the SNP got the highest amount of first preferences but the LibDems were elected by transfers at stage 7. More importantly, the Independence 4 Scotland Party got 42 first preferences and the Libertarians only got 11. The independent got 230 (more than the Greens). The Lib Dems presumably benefitted from there being no Labour candidate. The SNP's 33.7% in first preferences, with the Greens on 7.5%, were never likely to be enough to get them over the line once the Tory second preferences were reallocated. Interestingly, only about half of Tories gave any preference to the Lib Dems. 7.5% is ok for the Greens here, from what I can see it's the most they've had in any council election in an Inverness ward. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Highland Capital Posted August 13, 2021 Author Share Posted August 13, 2021 An Inverness West voter informs me that the Lib Dems absolutely bombarded the electorate with leaflets for this election while the Greens sent out very little. The Lib Dems already have a popular councillor in that ward too (who's a Caley Thistle fan and very nice guy). Apparently the independent candidate is a South African guy who wanted more money for the local golf club. He's president of said local golf club. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welshbairn Posted August 14, 2021 Share Posted August 14, 2021 20 hours ago, Highland Capital said: An Inverness West voter informs me that the Lib Dems absolutely bombarded the electorate with leaflets for this election while the Greens sent out very little. The Lib Dems already have a popular councillor in that ward too (who's a Caley Thistle fan and very nice guy). Apparently the independent candidate is a South African guy who wanted more money for the local golf club. He's president of said local golf club. The Libdem guy's leaflet was full of vacuous platitudes, and don't think it mentioned a single thing he'd done or campaigned for. As I mentioned above, I vote on the candidate rather than party in local elections, but Kate MacLean's credentials were streets ahead of the others. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scottsdad Posted August 16, 2021 Share Posted August 16, 2021 This made me giggle. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
101 Posted August 16, 2021 Share Posted August 16, 2021 Someone has set up an Independence for Fife party, look forward to their campaign material. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BFTD Posted August 16, 2021 Share Posted August 16, 2021 2 hours ago, 101 said: Someone has set up an Independence for Fife party, look forward to their campaign material. Hmm. I wonder which laws would be changed in an independent Fife... Just read some of the quotes in the press, and I can't make up my mind if the guy behind it is serious, or another Unionist taking the piss out of Scottish independence. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Granny Danger Posted August 16, 2021 Share Posted August 16, 2021 4 hours ago, 101 said: Someone has set up an Independence for Fife party, look forward to their campaign material. They only have six policies, their supporters can count them on one hand. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
101 Posted August 16, 2021 Share Posted August 16, 2021 1 hour ago, Granny Danger said: They only have six policies, their supporters can count them on one hand. Come independence we will be raging war with Dundee and your house will be the first target of our fury. 3 hours ago, BFTD said: Hmm. I wonder which laws would be changed in an independent Fife... Just read some of the quotes in the press, and I can't make up my mind if the guy behind it is serious, or another Unionist taking the piss out of Scottish independence. It would be excellent. Yeh I'm not sure about the guy, I worry he was too extreme for Alba and has been flung out which would be something. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
senorsoupe Posted August 16, 2021 Share Posted August 16, 2021 (edited) I'm looking forward to seeing what sort of craziest end up on the ballot in my riding during this election. Usually we get one or two, hopefully this time one is from the Rhino Party (Canada's version of the Monster Raving Looney Party). We used to have a candidate for the Marijuna party (who disbanded once Canada legalized weed, making them redundent) who kept adding words to his name every election. At first he was just John Akpata, then he was John Andrew Akpata before finally being John Andrew Omowole Akpata Edited August 16, 2021 by senorsoupe 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Highland Capital Posted August 17, 2021 Author Share Posted August 17, 2021 There's a guy in Canada who's run in every election since the 70s I'm sure. I had assumed he was a bit of a joke candidate but I saw him interviewed once and he seemed serious. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meldrew Posted August 17, 2021 Share Posted August 17, 2021 Niko Omilana when running for London Mayor wanted Freddos to return to their original price of 5p 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shipa Posted August 17, 2021 Share Posted August 17, 2021 3 hours ago, Meldrew said: Niko Omilana when running for London Mayor wanted Freddos to return to their original price of 5p If only I lived in London... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
senorsoupe Posted August 17, 2021 Share Posted August 17, 2021 4 hours ago, Highland Capital said: There's a guy in Canada who's run in every election since the 70s I'm sure. I had assumed he was a bit of a joke candidate but I saw him interviewed once and he seemed serious. John Turmel. In his mind he's serious, but the rest of us think he's a joke. Apart from running for office in every election he can, he also once went on Dragon's Den to pitch some sort of hair-brained scheme to use poker chips from a casino at local shops. The Dragon's rightfully mocked him so he did the natural thing and sued the CBC, he lost but in true John Turmel style he appealed all the way to the Supreme Court where, to nobody's shock, he lost 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Highland Capital Posted August 17, 2021 Author Share Posted August 17, 2021 Well this guy seems relatively sane... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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