Ivo den Bieman Posted May 6, 2022 Share Posted May 6, 2022 Labour doing nicely in Aberdeen so far: 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GTG_03 Posted May 6, 2022 Share Posted May 6, 2022 4 minutes ago, Detective Jimmy McNulty said: Reckon the Tories could ban fishing outright and those weirdo North Eastern backwaters would still happily vote them back in. It's a strange one, there's loads of fishermen and their families who voted leave and can't bring themselves to believe they've been lied to. It's due to selfishness and greed, I'll shed no tears when they continue to get shafted by the Tories. When you look at how awful fraserburgh and Peterhead are it's incredible that they keep voting conservative. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scottsdad Posted May 6, 2022 Share Posted May 6, 2022 11 minutes ago, WhiteRoseKillie said: Of course Starmer needs binned. Or he could cross the floor to where his ideas of corporate-funded Party Politics would be more welcome. Unfortunately, a Blair Tribute Act is the best we can hope for in the next Government. I suppose it'll be a (small) step in the right direction. Never change, WRK. Never change. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boo Khaki Posted May 6, 2022 Share Posted May 6, 2022 2 minutes ago, Paco said: Don’t think anyone can blame them for ditching the SNP given the ongoing ferry fiasco. It’a a bit… bold… however to go Tory. ‘Do we actually need a ferry to Arran?’ That's a brand new ward with new boundaries. Can't read anything into the result really. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SlipperyP Posted May 6, 2022 Share Posted May 6, 2022 2 minutes ago, Paco said: Don’t think anyone can blame them for ditching the SNP given the ongoing ferry fiasco. It’a a bit… bold… however to go Tory. ‘Do we actually need a ferry to Arran?’ By voting Tory, they will get the dinghies, confiscated from channel. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blootoon87 Posted May 6, 2022 Share Posted May 6, 2022 Brochers for you 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Granny Danger Posted May 6, 2022 Share Posted May 6, 2022 26 minutes ago, Boo Khaki said: It's the same in Corstorphine when it comes to National elections. They're just ideological Tories who can't quite bring themselves to vote Tory but are quietly happy for other people to do so. Added a bit for you. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scottsdad Posted May 6, 2022 Share Posted May 6, 2022 The big thing that I can (generally) see is the Tories are losing votes but no one party is picking them up. Labour, Green, Lib Dem and even SNP are benefitting from their drop. Probably not what Labour were hoping for. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bob in Denny Posted May 6, 2022 Share Posted May 6, 2022 1 minute ago, SlipperyP said: By voting Tory, they will get the dinghies, confiscated from channel. Ardrossan- Rwanda- Brodick 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Granny Danger Posted May 6, 2022 Share Posted May 6, 2022 3 minutes ago, scottsdad said: Never change, WRK. Never change. Do you disagree? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndyM Posted May 6, 2022 Share Posted May 6, 2022 (edited) Dunfermline South not much of a surprise to anyone living here. Calder and Hilton have high local profiles and the SNP vote has held up well. No surprise to see the Tory emptied. Ross paid the price for well publicised incident where during a local development meeting in relation to land at Duloch, a Tory Councillor fell asleep and then voted against the objections people were raising once he'd woken up. Good showing by Martin Wilcocks the local Independent. 8 minutes ago, Ginaro said: I wondered how long it would take for this to happen - Family Party 105, Abla 103 in Dunfermline South. Also the incumbent Tory here, who got the most first preference votes the last time - has been emptied by a second SNP. Edited May 6, 2022 by AndyM 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doulikefish Posted May 6, 2022 Share Posted May 6, 2022 2 minutes ago, Blootoon87 said: Brochers for you Stick a candidate who is connected through family to half the toon and it's a shoe in... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scottsdad Posted May 6, 2022 Share Posted May 6, 2022 Just now, Granny Danger said: Do you disagree? For England/the UK, I would say a Labour government is essential. Even a minority one, or coalition, or whatever. The Tories are so utterly abysmal that they need to go. And the only way England will go that way is with a Blair/Starmer type at the helm. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boo Khaki Posted May 6, 2022 Share Posted May 6, 2022 2 minutes ago, Granny Danger said: Added a bit for you. Bang on cue - 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Granny Danger Posted May 6, 2022 Share Posted May 6, 2022 1 minute ago, scottsdad said: For England/the UK, I would say a Labour government is essential. Even a minority one, or coalition, or whatever. The Tories are so utterly abysmal that they need to go. And the only way England will go that way is with a Blair/Starmer type at the helm. I completely agree with that but if I lived in England like WRK I would be very frustrated by the reality. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welshbairn Posted May 6, 2022 Share Posted May 6, 2022 Green gain in Inverness West. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oneteaminglasgow Posted May 6, 2022 Share Posted May 6, 2022 On 05/05/2022 at 10:42, oneteaminglasgow said: We’ll probably be getting two Lib Dem’s and an SNP elected though. 7 minutes ago, Boo Khaki said: Bang on cue - Telt yous. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WhiteRoseKillie Posted May 6, 2022 Share Posted May 6, 2022 2 hours ago, Michael W said: Surprised they didn't try and deflect on Ukraine. They've also been very fortunate that the weird local authority system in England didn't land for them on a bad year. A lot of councils don't have elections at all as they are on "all out" elections and it isn't their turn, whilst many only have a handful of seats up for grabs because you end up voting three years out of four or some nonsense. Labour were actually defending a lot more seats than the Tories. This is a point which has been glossed over, especially in the context of "the tories are doing well up north". Eh, no they fucking aren't, and it's glorious to see. The minute you saw Dowden squirming on Burley's sofa this morning you knew what they know - Operation Save Big Dog has become Operation Save Our Own Skins. The problem they have with the less-engaged majority of the electorate is that Johnson was their "Waldo" - a character whose lies and poor performance would be excused by it being "just Boris". None of their potential next leaders have anything like the image needed to prevent collapse at the next GE. From misanthropic verging on actively evil (Patel) to demonstrably thick (Truss, Dorries and Raaaaab) to simply criminal (Hancock, Jenrick) or fraudulent (Javid, Sunak), none of them will appeal to Mr and Mrs Floating Voter. Without a leader who has that "cheeky chappie, what is he/she like"* appeal, they're fucked. The good news is that Labour are probably going to need the SNP to form a robust Government. I wonder what the price for that deal would be? *Which I have never, ever understood. How many cheeky chappies leave their wives while they're undergoing cancer treatment or arrange for journalists to be beaten? Or get sacked twice for lying to their employer(s)? All these happened well before he absofuckinglutely did not get Brexit done. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BFTD Posted May 6, 2022 Share Posted May 6, 2022 21 minutes ago, scottsdad said: The big thing that I can (generally) see is the Tories are losing votes but no one party is picking them up. Labour, Green, Lib Dem and even SNP are benefitting from their drop. Probably not what Labour were hoping for. Pretty demonstrable that people are voting against the Tories, rather than for any of the other parties. Unfortunately, they won't have to do much to get the electorate back on side for the next GE. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
betting competition Posted May 6, 2022 Share Posted May 6, 2022 (edited) So far the BBC have it: SNP: 77 (-4) Labour: 54 (+9) Conservative: 44 (-11) Independent: 44 (-8) Liberal Democrat: 16 (+7) Green: 9 (+6) Alba: Edited May 6, 2022 by betting competition 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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