Ally Bongo Posted March 8 Author Share Posted March 8 Hillhead (Glasgow) by-election, 1st prefs: Labour: 1298 (31.9%, +9.7) Green: 1284 (31.5%, -4.7) SNP: 1015 (24.9%, -3.7) Con: 217 (5.3%, -1.4) IGV: 133 (3.3%, new) LD: 106 (2.6%, -2.8) Independent: 22 (0.5%, new) Green elected stage 7. First ever Green by-election victory. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stocky Posted March 8 Share Posted March 8 7 hours ago, Ally Bongo said: Hillhead (Glasgow) by-election, 1st prefs: Labour: 1298 (31.9%, +9.7) Green: 1284 (31.5%, -4.7) SNP: 1015 (24.9%, -3.7) Con: 217 (5.3%, -1.4) IGV: 133 (3.3%, new) LD: 106 (2.6%, -2.8) Independent: 22 (0.5%, new) Green elected stage 7. First ever Green by-election victory. I see IGV stood and cost the real greens a top spot IGV is a right wing holocaust denying party. They cost the Greens 1 or 2 seats at Holyrude. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ally Bongo Posted March 8 Author Share Posted March 8 11 minutes ago, stocky said: I see IGV stood and cost the real greens a top spot IGV is a right wing holocaust denying party. They cost the Greens 1 or 2 seats at Holyrude. I'm sure the electoral commission were going to investigate that - must have suited them to let them keep the name Has the SNP won any election since Humza took over ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hampden_loon2878 Posted March 8 Share Posted March 8 2 minutes ago, Ally Bongo said: I'm sure the electoral commission were going to investigate that - must have suited them to let them keep the name Has the SNP won any election since Humza took over ? No Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Orraloon Posted March 8 Share Posted March 8 1 hour ago, stocky said: I see IGV stood and cost the real greens a top spot IGV is a right wing holocaust denying party. They cost the Greens 1 or 2 seats at Holyrude. The electoral commission should stamp out this blatant gerrymandering. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alibi Posted March 8 Share Posted March 8 If Humza wants to be in a job at the end of the year, he needs to change things radically. Droppoing the gender stuff (despite other parties also backing it) would help a wee bit; stopping things like increasing the minimum alcohol price during a cost of living crisis would also help. Ending the Bute House agreement would I think add a few percentage points. If he doesn't do these things, he's in for a pasting in the general election. Yousaf needs to remember what the raison d'etre of the SNP actually is rather than just continuing as a Sturgeon tribute act. He's not going to win the election by pontificating about Gaza as a main policy plank. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
glasgow jock Posted March 8 Share Posted March 8 On 2/29/2024 at 8:16 PM, DoonTheSlope said: I’ll be taking no lectures from the likes of these pictures of health over whether or not my Boots meal deal and morning porridge is healthy or not I can buy a bag of heroin and go to a nice cosy wee room and they’ll help me inject it. If they get their way I’ll not be allowed my chicken & bacon piece, packet of flame grilled beef McCoys and Lucozade original at dinner time or my porridge in the morning without getting taxed to the hilt for it No chance of banning heroin though as that will have a detrimental effect on the family income 😄👍 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Hertsscot Posted March 13 Share Posted March 13 Just had a crown fitted and a filling. Feeling a bit battered but cost me about £150. Just checked prices for NHS dentistry in England and it would have been well over twice as much. I'm just posting this as I think there's a lot of people in Scotland who don't realise some of the differences and take a lot of stuff for granted. We're so bombarded by a biased media it's easy to assume everything in Scotland in worse than down south. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Hertsscot Posted March 16 Share Posted March 16 6 hours ago, Ally Bongo said: No surprises there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ally Bongo Posted March 16 Author Share Posted March 16 Gerry Fisher has passed away Another never to see Scottish Independence Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ally Bongo Posted March 18 Author Share Posted March 18 Just when you think the SNP can't make many more fuck ups https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-68591697 Any party serious about Independence would have got well rid of Leaky Liz Lloyd by now but even she knows Humza is a liability Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vanderark14 Posted March 18 Share Posted March 18 4 hours ago, Ally Bongo said: Just when you think the SNP can't make many more fuck ups https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-68591697 Any party serious about Independence would have got well rid of Leaky Liz Lloyd by now but even she knows Humza is a liability What's humza done wrong here? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scotlad Posted March 18 Share Posted March 18 7 hours ago, Ally Bongo said: Just when you think the SNP can't make many more fuck ups https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-68591697 Any party serious about Independence would have got well rid of Leaky Liz Lloyd by now but even she knows Humza is a liability Robin McAlpine wrote the other week that Humza's jaikit is rumoured to be on a shoogly peg, but despite the continual fuck-ups, crap poll ratings (both for the party and for him personally) and the string of by-election failures, I sensed no obvious animosity towards him from the inner sanctum of the party. However, when an arch company-man like Wishart is publicly critical of the official line - and I've also seen a couple of happy-clapper types on Twitter questioning it too - it makes me think that perhaps there is something behind it after all. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TDYER63 Posted March 18 Share Posted March 18 7 hours ago, Ally Bongo said: Just when you think the SNP can't make many more fuck ups https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-68591697 Any party serious about Independence would have got well rid of Leaky Liz Lloyd by now but even she knows Humza is a liability Her and Wishart are saying that concentration on the Tories is wrong, albeit for different reasons. I think she is actually more supportive of Humza in that article than negative. I am not particularly impressed by the Tory focus either for the same reasons as LL, Tories up here are not the biggest threat. But, if I were in her position , I would never go on BBC Scotland and say that the SNP don’t want to take Labour full on as they would prefer Labour in at WM. FFS . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ally Bongo Posted March 18 Author Share Posted March 18 4 hours ago, vanderark14 said: What's humza done wrong here? As strategies go it is totally pathetic - unless of course between now and the GE there is a massive upsurge in the Tory vote within Scotland (There wont be) You only have to look at the polls to see what the danger is - daft cunts in Scotland thinking British Labour is the answer Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ally Bongo Posted March 18 Author Share Posted March 18 So the reality is that the large majority of Scottish seats this year will be fought out between the SNP and Labour, as the last echoes of the unusual blip in Tory popularity created by Ruth Davidson die away and normal service resumes. Humza Yousaf, then, is lying in both the narrow and the broader underlying senses, because he thinks his voters are gullible idiots and because he thinks “TORIES BAD!” is the only even slightly credible message he has left. And in those two things, at least, he’s probably right. https://wingsoverscotland.com/humza-yousaf-fact-check/#more-141858 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Orraloon Posted March 18 Share Posted March 18 At some point the "Kick the Tories Out" message will have to be followed up by a very strong message saying that Labour are are no different to the Tories. Labour are just copying every Tory policy in order to try to win over more traditional Tory voters down south. Whether that strategy will work is a different matter. Humza has inherited a very difficult situation which I think he has largely handled it quite well. I am fairly confident that the majority of active SNP members think the same. But a lot of things are totally out of his control. There is a good chance that the fate of the SNP will be decided by Operation Branchform. The timing and outcome of this will be one of the biggest factors, IMO. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DoonTheSlope Posted March 18 Share Posted March 18 The trouble with the conservatives is they aren’t conservative enough and the trouble with labour is it’s full of conservatives Its all just a big game and we’re daft enough to play along Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vanderark14 Posted March 18 Share Posted March 18 1 hour ago, Ally Bongo said: As strategies go it is totally pathetic - unless of course between now and the GE there is a massive upsurge in the Tory vote within Scotland (There wont be) You only have to look at the polls to see what the danger is - daft cunts in Scotland thinking British Labour is the answer What is the current polling situation? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ally Bongo Posted March 18 Author Share Posted March 18 2 minutes ago, vanderark14 said: What is the current polling situation? https://www.whatscotlandthinks.org/questions/how-would-you-be-likely-to-vote-in-a-uk-general-election-asked-since-2019-general-election/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TDYER63 Posted March 18 Share Posted March 18 Worth a watch to get a bit of background on Humza Yousaf. IMO he comes over pretty likeable, I just wish I had more confidence in his ability as FM. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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