DublinMagyar Posted May 8, 2021 Share Posted May 8, 2021 Aberdeenshire West looking good for the Conservatives now Could you f**k off on your pub crawl please? 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carpetmonster Posted May 8, 2021 Share Posted May 8, 2021 15 minutes ago, virginton said: I hate to break this to you, but Unionists loathed Alex Salmond in 2007 when the SNP took power, and in 2011 when they won a majority of seats, and all through the independence referendum campaign in which yes climbed from 25% to 45%. The change in Salmond's popularity has come from the vast majority of the SNP choosing Team Nicola in a tawdry civil war, so how exactly would his election to Parliament change the dynamic on the No side? Alex Salmond getting elected would have been bad news for Team Nicola. It would have little objective consequence to the Yes movement. None of which negates the fact Salmond is now electoral poison, as wholly demonstrated by his dismal showing in this election. When a 70s rock band needs to pay off a tax bill but fractures into ‘Starshine’ and ‘The Real Starshine’ nobody goes to see the one with the non-current lead singer and a shower of mutants for a backing band. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dstuart82 Posted May 8, 2021 Share Posted May 8, 2021 Lib Dem voters really showing their true colours at this election, a massively pro-EU party (apparently), but yet propping up the unionist parties at any given chance! Surely a vote for SNP would make more sense, but being part of the Union seems to trump everything, absolutely pathetic stuff! Where do all these people come from, I have never met a Lib Dem voter in my life! As for people like Willie Rennie, he perfectly encapsulates the daft wee, smiley downtrodden Scot! Quite happy to shout from the sidelines, but would shit the bed immediately if any true responsibilities with actual consequences was offered to him. Again, absolutely pathetic! Having said all that, the unionists can spin this any way they like, but yet again the parliament will be very much pro Indy and therefore will be entitled to hold another independence referendum. It’s only a matter of time, thankfully the vast majority of younger people see right through people like Willie Rennie. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the snudge Posted May 8, 2021 Share Posted May 8, 2021 1 hour ago, Inanimate Carbon Rod said: Yes twitter seemingly seething at the voters of Dumbarton for having the audacity to reject a shite SNP candidate. Seen people referring to a place that voted overwhelmingly for yes in 2014 calling Dumbarton residents ‘traitors’ etc. Thats hardly going to win anyone over is it? If you look at it, Dumbarton and Clydebank, overwhelming for yes in 2014, snp MP since Doyle got punted, The voters didnt fail the SNP there, the SNP failed to inspire the voters. Plus it was those posh helensburgh c***s 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DC92 Posted May 8, 2021 Share Posted May 8, 2021 4 minutes ago, GordonS said: FWIW, the validation stage comes before counting, and that's when they do ballot box sampling. If they do a decent sample and the majority is more than about 2%, they'll know the result already. Fair enough. I'd be surprised if they didn't scoop up the "Lib Dem" vote and increase their majority, but the glimmer of hope for the SNP is they're overperforming their GE2019 vote in the north-east and the Tories are underperforming, and they came surprisingly close to taking the equivalent Westminster seat then. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scary Bear Posted May 8, 2021 Share Posted May 8, 2021 1 hour ago, Donathan said: Sorry heading out on a pub crawl around Southend at 12pm.... but one nugget for you. Hearing Aberdeenshire West looking good for the SNP, and that probably means majority 49 minutes ago, Donathan said: Aberdeenshire West looking good for the Conservatives now I’m so confused. A lot can change in 10 minutes. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
S7C Posted May 8, 2021 Share Posted May 8, 2021 Just now, Scary Bear said: I’m so confused. A lot can change in 10 minutes. A lot can change in 10 minutes, but you can always rely on Donathan to be consistently full of shite. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hedgecutter Posted May 8, 2021 Share Posted May 8, 2021 (edited) 25 minutes ago, GordonS said: The seat hasn't changed boundaries though so it's no more difficult than anywhere else. You just bang in the numbers and compare them with 2016. What I mean is that it depends on where the sampling you talk of takes place. For example, you couldn't just take a sample from white-settler-central Banchory, the same number from Huntly and expect to get an accurate prediction from that. Aberdeenshire West takes in areas that in the WM elections are Tory-held West Aberdeenshire & Kincardine and SNP-held Gordon Edited May 8, 2021 by Hedgecutter 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Salt n Vinegar Posted May 8, 2021 Share Posted May 8, 2021 The BBC doing a fine job, trying to pretend that a SNP majority is possible. Anyone who has been paying attention knows that with the swings elsewhere, Ross County have more chance of winning next year's Premiership than the SNP have of getting a majority now. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ira Gaines Posted May 8, 2021 Share Posted May 8, 2021 Can everyone not just block Donathon and leave the c**t screaming into the void? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blue Brazil Forever Posted May 8, 2021 Share Posted May 8, 2021 3 hours ago, LongTimeLurker said: ...but it's not 50%+1 voting for pro-Yes parties so it looks like No would probably still have won a referndum if a ballot on that had also been provided as opinion polls are also suggesting right now. If the SNP doesn't reach 65 today Boris will have a set of arguments that will look reasonable enough to many people for not going along with a second referendum. The SNP have done very well in this election but not so well that a Yes victory is assured in the short to medium term. Today's older generation will have to largely have departed the scene before there is likely to be a solid pro-independence majority that will stand up to an intense few weeks of electoral campaigning. There are quite few SNP nutters who would love to help us COGS shuffle off this Scottish paradise. Covid and care homes anyone? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oneteaminglasgow Posted May 8, 2021 Share Posted May 8, 2021 16 minutes ago, Pato said: Not all independence backers are alike; for some it's the single animating force that gets them out of bed every day, for others it's something they think would be quite nice but can manage without it in the meantime. Perhaps people just prefer Labour's politics, or particular popular MSPs? Obviously Jackie Baillie types are just lightning rods for unionism and it wouldn't make a jot of different to their voters if they were wearing a different rosette, while Monica Lennon actually gets things done in parliament that the SNP weren't going to do, so they will still have a substantial base of people who favour them regardless of their views on the independence question. Aye, there was a thing on the BBC this morning with a young voter who supports independence but voted Labour as she prefers their domestic agenda. Which is fair enough. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Antlion Posted May 8, 2021 Share Posted May 8, 2021 Just now, oneteaminglasgow said: Aye, there was a thing on the BBC this morning with a young voter who supports independence but voted Labour as she prefers their domestic agenda. Which is fair enough. The audacity! Wait till Sarwar hears - he’ll be telling her to shove her vote up her arse. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Salt n Vinegar Posted May 8, 2021 Share Posted May 8, 2021 3 minutes ago, Andre Drazen said: Can everyone not just block Donathon and leave the c**t screaming into the void? True enough. Just because you have a stone in your shoe, it doesn't mean that you have to keep it there. Might give it a go, but I've never done it to anyone before. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melanius Mullarkey Posted May 8, 2021 Share Posted May 8, 2021 2 minutes ago, oneteaminglasgow said: Aye, there was a thing on the BBC this morning with a young voter who supports independence but voted Labour as she prefers their domestic agenda. Which is fair enough. This the one with “Greg” the cafe owner? He sounded a bundle of laughs. Wonder which team he supports. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hedgecutter Posted May 8, 2021 Share Posted May 8, 2021 2 minutes ago, Blue Brazil Forever said: There are quite few SNP nutters who would love to help us COGS shuffle off this Scottish paradise. Covid and care homes anyone? Antiyoonism related claims could keep the Conspiracy Theories thread busy in the future. I've already heard such claims banded about tbh. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GiGi Posted May 8, 2021 Share Posted May 8, 2021 (edited) Fluffy the clown telling us that SNP are the only 'nationalist' party. And he thinks they'll pick up enough list votes to get a majority. Now I'm not sure if he's saying that because he believes it, or because he knows otherwise and then when the only nationalist party don't have a majority this defeats the indy argument. Not much point worrying about it, he just thinks whatever the big parliament fucking well tell him to think. Edited May 8, 2021 by GiGi 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Inanimate Carbon Rod Posted May 8, 2021 Share Posted May 8, 2021 11 minutes ago, the snudge said: Plus it was those posh helensburgh c***s Just admit youre all a bunch of raging Unionists in Dumbarton Yeh absolutely the Helensburgh aspect wont have helped, theres probably a lot of work could be done to reassure people in Helensburgh that Faslane would form the heart of a Scottish Defence Force etc, which just doesnt seem to happen. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Lambies Doos Posted May 8, 2021 Author Share Posted May 8, 2021 Some English boffin on bbc24 saying that perhaps sarwar could replace starmer as leader of Labour Party. I'm sure the xenophobic north of England will embrace a Muslim millionaire 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeeTillEhDeh Posted May 8, 2021 Share Posted May 8, 2021 Expected to hang on comfortably in Renfewshire East . . .They just can't help themselves these BBC hacks. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts
Join the conversation
You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.