Crùbag Posted February 6, 2015 Share Posted February 6, 2015 More Labour sophistry.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
renton Posted February 6, 2015 Share Posted February 6, 2015 The SNP candidate here is the current Council leader and seems fairly unpopular going by letters & comments in local media. The never ending controversy about the Inverness bypass seems to be the favoured stick to beat him with. *edit* Sorry, Just realised you were talking about Douglas Alexander rather than Danny. To be fair, the SNP could put road kill up against Danny and still win. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BerwickMad Posted February 6, 2015 Share Posted February 6, 2015 To be fair to the SNP, they've had a rapid rise and are having to field candidates across both the UK and Scottish Parliaments, so it's not always going to be easy to get a high standard across the board. The odd nut job is always going to slip through the net. We had a 19 year old student from Oxford standing here for Labour once. It was a seat they couldn't win so I suppose it's experience. The SNP can't exactly do that when about every seat becomes winnable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BerwickMad Posted February 6, 2015 Share Posted February 6, 2015 That said, it's no defence of her. She should still be treated by the same standards as any other person standing for election. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kyle Posted February 6, 2015 Share Posted February 6, 2015 More Labour sophistry.... Fucking hell. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
H Wragg Posted February 6, 2015 Share Posted February 6, 2015 More on the arms-dealer dinner. Pregnant activist crashes glitzy arms industry dinner, urges guests ‘consider career change’ http://rt.com/uk/229675-arms-industry-profit-bloodshed/ Nice woman, yon Curran. Helping Glasgow's poor and needy from her expensive seat at an arms-dealers' dinner.... Is it confirmed beyond doubt that she was actually there or is RT assuming her presence from the guest list? She is claiming she 'mistakenly' accepted the invitation but did not attend the event. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Lambies Doos Posted February 6, 2015 Share Posted February 6, 2015 Is it confirmed beyond doubt that she was actually there or is RT assuming her presence from the guest list? She is claiming she 'mistakenly' accepted the invitation but did not attend the event. She is a liar. She said she voted against Fracking on twitter last wk, yet the commons record shows she abstained. Disgusting liar. The people of Glasgow East need to be told this Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
H Wragg Posted February 6, 2015 Share Posted February 6, 2015 She is a liar. She said she voted against Fracking on twitter last wk, yet the commons record shows she abstained. Disgusting liar. The people of Glasgow East need to be told thisI know all that. I just want it confirmed she's a liar on this. Did she not also lie about her vote on the austerity cuts? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Lambies Doos Posted February 6, 2015 Share Posted February 6, 2015 I know all that. I just want it confirmed she's a liar on this. Did she not also lie about her vote on the austerity cuts? Probably.... she is a labour MP after all Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
~~~ Posted February 6, 2015 Share Posted February 6, 2015 Foulkes seething at polls, wants them banned before GE http://m.huffpost.com/uk/entry/6622300 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sherrif John Bunnell Posted February 6, 2015 Share Posted February 6, 2015 Foulkes didn't seem too upset by opinion polls all the way back in err April 2014. http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/politics/independence-referendum-labour-legends-drafted-3383905 Lord Foulkes admitted the narrowing polls helped trigger the move. He said: “There’s still a long way to go and we know we’re going to have to work to win. Everyone will be getting more involved Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
~~~ Posted February 6, 2015 Share Posted February 6, 2015 Don't think there's anything wrong with young candidates, be nice to have different viewpoints in the Commons. Yeah but the pubic are not going to vote for a 19 year old. Zero life experience. Similar to the cannon fodder Labour have put up against Salmond. Neither of them expected to win the seat, so why waste money on fighting for it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kyle Posted February 6, 2015 Share Posted February 6, 2015 Foulkes seething at polls, wants them banned before GE http://m.huffpost.com/uk/entry/6622300 That's the toys well and truly out of the pram, then. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
renton Posted February 6, 2015 Share Posted February 6, 2015 She's odds on to win the seat. I was more meaning in response to Oaksofts ridiculous comments about being 40 before you should be able to stand. Unless his tongue was in cheek and I missed it of course, which is more than possible. She's 8 points up on Alexander, more than close enough for tactical voting to make a difference. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vikingTON Posted February 6, 2015 Share Posted February 6, 2015 She's odds on to win the seat. Largely because of the national polling. Bookies are not paying attention to whichever whamee is actually standing in a given constituency, unless they're already an established name like Salmond or an incumbent. That's where the potential money lies IMO. Speaking of ridiculous candidates, there is a fucking 17 year old standing for UKIP in Inverclyde. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kyle Posted February 6, 2015 Share Posted February 6, 2015 She's 8 points up on Alexander, more than close enough for tactical voting to make a difference. I think tactical voting is just as likely to occur the other way. I'd argue Tory voters have more of an incentive to vote SNP candidates than they do labour - improves their party of choice's chances of being the biggest party, although unlikely they'd get a majority anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jamamafegan Posted February 6, 2015 Share Posted February 6, 2015 Largely because of the national polling. Bookies are not paying attention to whichever whamee is actually standing in a given constituency, unless they're already an established name like Salmond or an incumbent. That's where the potential money lies IMO. Speaking of ridiculous candidates, there is a fucking 17 year old standing for UKIP in Inverclyde. Just been on his twitter. Christian, Unionist. Always sets off late but arrives on time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elixir Posted February 6, 2015 Share Posted February 6, 2015 Foulkes seething at polls, wants them banned before GE http://m.huffpost.com/uk/entry/6622300 And he accused Ashcroft of deliberately conducting polling in Scottish seats that had a high 'Yes' vote in the recent independence referendum, in an attempt to create an anti-Labour narrative."He [Ashcroft] chooses the ones that will be worse for the Labour Party. I'm not against constituency polling," Foulkes said. "But they are being carried out at the whim of one man, instead of choosing a sample of constituencies around Scotland and doing them properly in each constituency. He can determine the methodology of the poll and choose the constituencies that he thinks will help the bandwagon [against Labour]." Yes George, those seats in your heartlands of Glasgow and North Lanarkshire are bad for Labour. That's an utterly incredible statement from the pished-up auld jakey. Largely because of the national polling. Bookies are not paying attention to whichever whamee is actually standing in a given constituency, unless they're already an established name like Salmond or an incumbent. That's where the potential money lies IMO. Speaking of ridiculous candidates, there is a fucking 17 year old standing for UKIP in Inverclyde. The bookies odds did move a fair bit in the wake of Ashcroft's polling, particularly the seats in question. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thumper Posted February 6, 2015 Share Posted February 6, 2015 Ukip membership is in "double figures" in Inverclyde according to said candidate, who apparently throught this was a positive thing to say in an interview. I assume nobody's told him that the deposit is in triple figures. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gordon EF Posted February 6, 2015 Share Posted February 6, 2015 What's the difference between Scottish Labour and a slice of bread? The bread isn't toast yet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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