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Rumour of snap GE -announcement 11.15
min replied to TDYER63's topic in Anything Goes - Other topics not covered elsewhere
It's great that she's been returned, but given her profile, ability and left wing views, the numbers are a bit worrying. -
Rumour of snap GE -announcement 11.15
min replied to TDYER63's topic in Anything Goes - Other topics not covered elsewhere
No. The poll has Gordon as Lib Dem 51% Salmond 49% -
Rumour of snap GE -announcement 11.15
min replied to TDYER63's topic in Anything Goes - Other topics not covered elsewhere
Those figures make much more sense. The exit poll has Moray 99% of being Tory and Salmond only a 49% chance of retaining Gordon. Sounds like nonsense to me. -
Rumour of snap GE -announcement 11.15
min replied to TDYER63's topic in Anything Goes - Other topics not covered elsewhere
Now I'm even more confused. If there's 34 SNP, that would leave 18 between Labour and Libs?! -
Rumour of snap GE -announcement 11.15
min replied to TDYER63's topic in Anything Goes - Other topics not covered elsewhere
If 34 is accurate, that's a disaster. Hard to see where all of those seats would be lost, but would surely mean Angus Robertson would be out. -
Rumour of snap GE -announcement 11.15
min replied to TDYER63's topic in Anything Goes - Other topics not covered elsewhere
Those people could vote in the local elections and those results were poor. I just feel the last few months in general and the GE campaign in particular have been extremely disappointing from an SNP / Independence perspective. -
Rumour of snap GE -announcement 11.15
min replied to TDYER63's topic in Anything Goes - Other topics not covered elsewhere
Of course it's simplistic - it has to be at this stage - votes will have moved all over the place. Best wait until the actual results are known before over-analysing. Although, don't agree that there's been much movement from SNP to Labour recently - SNP have consistently been polling in the low 40's since the election was called. If anything there's been movement from Tories (who were 30%+ in some polls) back to Labour. -
Rumour of snap GE -announcement 11.15
min replied to TDYER63's topic in Anything Goes - Other topics not covered elsewhere
That's the worrying thing for me. If 60% of the Scottish electorate vote for unionist parties, what message does that give compared to 2014. -
Rumour of snap GE -announcement 11.15
min replied to TDYER63's topic in Anything Goes - Other topics not covered elsewhere
The SNP had a 26% gap over their nearest rivals in 2015 when 50% voted SNP versus 24% for Labour. If the polls are to be believed, the Labour vote in Scotland has held firm and there's been a 10% swing from SNP to Tory. -
Thiem giving Djokovic a lesson here.
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Are you sure? Whyte's lawyers (Collyer Bristo) settled out of court to the tune of £24m with Oldco liquidators BDO. This went into the general pot and the remains (after substantial fees have been deducted) will be distributed amongst the creditors generally - not Ticketus specifically (they may get 5p in the £ through this process). A court ruled that Whyte is personally liable (through various guarantees) that he gave.
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Rumour of snap GE -announcement 11.15
min replied to TDYER63's topic in Anything Goes - Other topics not covered elsewhere
Libs - 2/9 SNP - 10/3 Tories - 8/1 -
Rumour of snap GE -announcement 11.15
min replied to TDYER63's topic in Anything Goes - Other topics not covered elsewhere
I checked all of the constituency odds on Paddy Power last night and if their favourites all won it would be: SNP 47 or 48 seats (Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross - joint favourite with Libs) Tories 6 seats Libs 4 or 5 seats Labour 1 seat I'd settle for that result!! -
Why didn't Scottish labour suspend these councillors 6 months ago or a year ago or 4 years ago. It's the same coalition that will enact the same policies ( whether that includes austerity or not)) that has been in power for years, this is merely a continuation. All I'm saying is that this is obvious political posturing by Dugdale and the councillors will quietly be welcomed back in no time at all.
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Labour and Tories have been in coalition for the last few years in Aberdeen, so it's business as usual. I fully expect the suspended councillors to be accepted back into the Labour party after the GE. It's nothing more than a political calculation by Kezia to appear to be a strong leader and increase her profile and appeal across the country.
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Andy having another nightmare in Rome. His serving has always been inconsistent, but can't remember him ever returning as poorly as this.
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Scottish Cup Weekend
min replied to OLAS's topic in Football related - Discussion of non TA football
He didn't take any loss at all. The league cup ticket guarantee scenario meant AFC only made something like £490k instead of £500k from that game. There was zero chance we wouldn't sell the additional tickets for this cup final and even if there was, the negative PR and alienating a section of your own support is hardly worth the small sum of money. -
Scottish Cup Weekend
min replied to OLAS's topic in Football related - Discussion of non TA football
Bizarre decision from Pittodrie. We sold 19,874 tickets in less than a week - of course we would sell the additional 1,344 in 12 days!?! Know quite a few folk who were waiting for a general sale and will now be disappointed. We are in the South Stand and now guaranteed to have opposing fans above us - not pleasant. It was bad enough in the League Cup final where we only had the end few sections of the upper tier. -
Scottish teams in Europe
min replied to GRBear's topic in Football related - Discussion of non TA football
Not necessarily. Aberdeens current ranking points of 6.785 is made up of 3.785 (20% of Scotland's association points) and 3.000 (1.000 for being eliminated at QR3 in each of the last three seasons). -
Scottish teams in Europe
min replied to GRBear's topic in Football related - Discussion of non TA football
Country co-efficient points are awarded for all wins (and draws) at any stage of the competition, so there will be a slight negative impact. Scotlands ranking has actually improved slightly and next time round (2018/19) the cup winners will automatically go into QR2. -
Scottish teams in Europe
min replied to GRBear's topic in Football related - Discussion of non TA football
Thinks if Spurs and either Liverpool or City win that would do it - United can't finish in the top three. Also need Feyenoord to get a better result than Ajax on Sunday. -
Scottish teams in Europe
min replied to GRBear's topic in Football related - Discussion of non TA football
The games are on Thursday nights and the June start is a sign of the time I'm afraid. -
Aberdeen City final results: SNP 19 (+3) Tory 11 (+8) Labour 9 (-9) LD 4 (-1) Ind 2 (-1)
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As expected really. They have achieved their raison d'etre - why would anyone vote for them now?