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Until the old school labour voters die out.

I believe mortality in Scotland is around 55k per year...... the vast majority I would imagine are older Labour & No voters.... we only lost indyref by less than 380k votes. Wonder what Labours strategy for attracting young, yes voters is ?

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I believe mortality in Scotland is around 55k per year...... the vast majority I would imagine are older Labour & No voters.... we only lost indyref by less than 380k votes. Wonder what Labours strategy for attracting young, yes voters is ?

A free Wham CD and Jim posing with a Gameboy Colour.

That and wheeling out "your favourite soccer heroes" Walter Smith and Bertie Auld yet again to say "Labour are my team".

A really interesting thing I've noticed in my area (East Ren) is that whilst most adults are completely opposed to independence and vote Labour or Tory, there are loads of young folk around these parts who are pro independence and pro SNP. They aren't following their parents path, they want something different. Now if this is happening in one of the most selfish, materialistic areas of Scotland, what is happening in the rest of the country ?

Prepare for the next battle. :ok:

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Talking of new years messages. Have just turned on the television news, to get new year's messages from cameron, miliband, clegg. Have any set of leaders looked more interchangeably bland?

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Talking of new years messages. Have just turned on the television news, to get new year's messages from cameron, miliband, clegg. Have any set of leaders looked more interchangeably bland?

Another thing we have to thank Tony Blair for.

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Crimean Prosecutor Natalya Poklonskaya wished Russian people Happy New Year.

That was rubbish, was waiting for the blouse to come off... beats the hell out of the utter cringefest of erse coming from Murphy & deputy dug. Couple ae shitebags

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A really interesting thing I've noticed in my area (East Ren) is that whilst most adults are completely opposed to independence and vote Labour or Tory, there are loads of young folk around these parts who are pro independence and pro SNP. They aren't following their parents path, they want something different. Now if this is happening in one of the most selfish, materialistic areas of Scotland, what is happening in the rest of the country ?ok:

Aye. I was surprised both my brothers in law were yes voters. Or would have been if they didn't live abroad.

Don't know why they differ from their parents, my guess is that they have followed the news on the internet instead of BBC and the Daily Telegraph.

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Jim Murphy and his Red Tories in shear panic

http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/jan/05/labour-target-200000-former-voters-prevent-general-election-rout

this is the man and party that called yes voters a Virus, separatists and also labelled yes voters of being blood and soil nationalists ( a Nazi slogan)


Labour woos 200,000 former voters in Scotland in bid to avert election rout
Scottish Labour will appeal to pro-independence voters who deserted the party before the referendum

Labour is to target nearly 200,000 of its former voters who supported independence in the referendum in an attempt to prevent a general election rout at the hands of the Scottish National party.

Jim Murphy, the Scottish Labour leader, has calculated that Ed Miliband’s hopes of securing an overall majority in May’s general election hinge on 190,000 mostly male voters who voted yes after deserting Labour. An ICM poll for the Guardian just before new year suggests that Labour faces a bloodbath in Scotland, threatening scores of key seats and Miliband’s prospects of avoiding a minority government or an alliance with other parties.

The poll put the SNP on 43% and Labour at 26%, confirming a substantial hardening in support for the SNP after it lost September’s referendum, and putting several dozen Scottish seats with hefty Labour majorities at risk. In a speech in Edinburgh on Monday, Murphy will admit that pro-independence voters could determine the outcome of the general election.

He said Labour would heavily court those 190,000 voters this month, with personal letters, phone calls and doorstep canvassing: most were older Labour voters in the Glasgow area, where the yes vote was heaviest but where Labour holds a large majority of Westminster seats.

“They voted yes, largely because they wanted rid of the Tories and wanted change,” Murphy will say. “Now they can decide whether to vote Labour to get rid of the Tories or to vote SNP and keep the status quo. At the general election these will be the most important voters in the UK.”

Labour’s analysis was released as the SNP launched a counter-offensive with newspaper adverts showing opposition benches in the Commons covered in tartan to underscore its hopes of taking a swath of key Labour and Lib Dem seats.

In a letter to the SNP’s 95,000 members, Nicola Sturgeon, party leader and first minister, said its success hinged on retaining the votes of the 190,000 people identified by Labour who backed independence but never normally voted SNP.

Sturgeon again insisted that the UK parties could not be trusted to honour their pledge to quickly deliver substantial new powers to the Scottish parliament – a promise spelt out by former Labour leader Gordon Brown in the closing days of the referendum campaign.

Accusing Labour of persistently “taking Scotland for granted”, Sturgeon’s letter said: “Even if you don’t normally vote SNP at Westminster, lend us your vote this time so that we can hold Westminster to account and make Scotland’s voice heard. An empowered and assertive Scotland threatens the vested interests of the Westminster parties.”

That contest for those key voters will pit the SNP’s record number of party activists, which has nearly quadrupled since the referendum, and its significant campaign war chest, against a Labour party with only a few months to recover its previous position in the polls.

Murphy will claim on Monday that Sturgeon’s pledge that an SNP landslide would benefit Scotland is false. In the 2010 general election, only the Tories under David Cameron benefited from a slump in Labour support.

“Once again it is a strategy that won’t lead to a kaleidoscope-coalition but instead risks delivering another true-blue Tory government,” he is expected to say. “I know that the last thing SNP voters want is a Tory government but David Cameron may end up as their accidental victor if Scots vote SNP in the UK election.”

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