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1 minute ago, ParisInAKilt said:

I think the BBC are being very disingenuous with their attack on Labour / Corbyn, in many ways Labour’s economic policies are attractive, sure more than the Tories? Their social and Brexit policies might have let them down. 

It’s Corbyn, he simply isn’t electable. A decent leader could have won this election. 

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20 minutes ago, aaid said:

It's actually more complicated.  In 2015, the SNP got 30000, Labour 20000 and the Tories 5000.

In 2017 Labour's vote dropped slightly to 19000 but the SNP crashed down to 18000 and the Tories were up to 9000.

Turnout in 2015 was 57000, in 2017 it was down to 50000.    I think what happened in 2015 was that a number of former Labour voters probably voted for the SNP for reasons connected to the referendum.

In 2017, a big chunk of the SNP didn't turn out for various reasons, they probably lost a lot of 2015 votes from the former Labour voters back to Labour but Labour lost more of their hardline Unionist vote to the Tories.  So on the surface it looks like Labour's vote held up but in reality there was a fair bit of switching.

This time it looks like Labour and the Tories vote is down a little but the main thing - and turnout was up to 53000 - is that the SNP got the vote back out. 

if that's a trend across the country then it'll be a good night for the SNP. 

Sounds right. 

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1 minute ago, kumnio said:

She hasn’t spoken yet, but Annie Wells is a cunt. 

Several years ago when my pal was on the tills at M&S she was his boss :lol:

He said she was actually alright and he got on with her. Although mind you, they never discussed politics, he's SNP to the core.

He said he did a double take when he saw her face on an election leaflet for the first time.

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