tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1638916042737526171.post1743807491774397018..comments2024-03-28T07:16:39.621+00:00Comments on Lallands Peat Worrier: GE2010: Those Glasgow Central results in full...Lallands Peat Worrierhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18276270498204697708noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1638916042737526171.post-35827001855913015602010-05-09T12:55:05.464+01:002010-05-09T12:55:05.464+01:00Thanks for the link, Doug Daniel. Will add you to ...Thanks for the link, Doug Daniel. Will add you to my blogroll imminently.Lallands Peat Worrierhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07238432265194046726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1638916042737526171.post-30639772728033833212010-05-09T12:52:24.745+01:002010-05-09T12:52:24.745+01:00Hamish Scott,
A feeble but also a predictably chu...Hamish Scott,<br /><br />A feeble but also a predictably churlish forty-one, which apparently dismissed Alex Salmond's mere mooting of a progressive alliance - which would require SNP votes - <a href="http://www.spectator.co.uk/coffeehouse/5982278/where-are-labours-manners.thtml" rel="nofollow">as "a desperate attempt by Alex Salmond to make himself look relevant".</a><br /><br />Charming.Lallands Peat Worrierhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07238432265194046726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1638916042737526171.post-50699191281293274342010-05-07T16:09:30.128+01:002010-05-07T16:09:30.128+01:00Actually, having the day to sit and think about wh...Actually, having the day to sit and think about what we've just witnessed, I've realised that maybe there is something to be positive about after all: namely, that Scotland has just had an unofficial independence referendum, and has overwhelmingly voted against being governed the same way as the rest of the UK.<br /><a href="http://albamatters.blogspot.com/2010/05/last-nights-result-unofficial.html" rel="nofollow">http://albamatters.blogspot.com/2010/05/last-nights-result-unofficial.html</a>Doug Danielhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15017218581660887134noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1638916042737526171.post-12344487398052945652010-05-07T15:11:29.578+01:002010-05-07T15:11:29.578+01:00Yes Doug, depressing indeed. Cue the 'feeble f...Yes Doug, depressing indeed. Cue the 'feeble forty one'.<br /><br />http://scottsrepublic.wordpress.com/Hamish Scotthttp://scottsrepublic.wordpress.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1638916042737526171.post-43777536269759585242010-05-07T13:23:30.860+01:002010-05-07T13:23:30.860+01:00Can't say I was cock-a-hoop with happiness mys...Can't say I was cock-a-hoop with happiness myself last night when this result came in, Doug Daniel! In fact, I reacted thus -<br /><br /><i>"Huzzah. I'm now represented by the Dowdy Dauphin of Pollokshields. A smarmy 27 year old dentist whose primary qualification is his father."</i><br /><br />While I think we ought keep the point I made in my response to Anonymous firmly in mind, your question still stands. What, just what will it take for particular parts of Scotland to loose their seemingly indestructible, nigh unshakeable connection with Labour Party politics? What sin would be sufficiently egregious? Can such a thing even be imagined?<br /><br />That said, I doubt an emancipating answer and nationalist solution is to be found in too much negativity about this section of our electorate. However, in the context of last night, I'm not sure if I'm a fiddle well-tuned to play that sort of sweet melody today. <br /><br />In my post-election fug, I'll admit, seeing Glaswegian majorities, my mind turned of this acid, sickly Shakespearean sonnet...<br /><br /><i>Being your slave, what should I do but tend<br />Upon the hours and times of your desire?<br />I have no precious time at all to spend,<br />Nor services to do, till you require.<br />Nor dare I chide the world-without-end hour<br />Whilst I, my sovereign, watch the clock for you,<br />Nor think the bitterness of absence sour<br />When you have bid your servant once adieu;<br />Nor dare I question with my jealous thought<br />Where you may be, or your affairs suppose,<br />But, like a sad slave, stay and think of nought<br />Save, where you are how happy you make those.<br />So true a fool is love that in your will,<br />Though you do any thing, he thinks no ill.</i><br />~ Sonnet 57, William ShakespeareLallands Peat Worrierhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07238432265194046726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1638916042737526171.post-16672612512234027632010-05-07T13:00:46.731+01:002010-05-07T13:00:46.731+01:00As you say Anonymous, it is worth taking seriously...As you say Anonymous, it is worth taking seriously not only at the hues of the electoral map - which tell their own tale about geographic concentration - but also how the whole country actually cast its votes. As I type <i>(hence excluding Argyll & Bute which has not yet been declared)</i> the Labour Party received a handsome 42.4% of total ballots cast. Namely, 57.6% of Scots voted for a party <i>other</i> than Labour. <br /><br />I'm not denigrating Labour's win - they did well in Scotland. However, they did well on a flawed and unfair electoral calculus. While Labour will be marching at least 41 MPs from Scottish constituencies - if <i>(a fairly crude)</i> proportionality reigned, on yesterday's showing, this Labour cohort would only translate into 25 of 59 Scottish MPs.Lallands Peat Worrierhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07238432265194046726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1638916042737526171.post-28509258407222565442010-05-07T12:10:50.094+01:002010-05-07T12:10:50.094+01:00I hate to hear the media talking about Scotland is...I hate to hear the media talking about Scotland is all red. Outside weegie and fife ghettos they have little support. Glasgow is a disgrace to Scotland and working people.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1638916042737526171.post-33248363659259897992010-05-07T10:19:21.750+01:002010-05-07T10:19:21.750+01:00This result depressed me no end, and it's a pe...This result depressed me no end, and it's a perfect example of the pig-headedness of the Glasgow voters and what an uphill struggle the SNP still face here. Osama Saaed would have been an excellent MP, and yet the people here have voted for the son of one of the worst politicians of recent times.<br /><br />High expenses? Check.<br />Criminal family ties? Check. <br />Lack of appearances in Westminster? Check.<br />Self-admitted absences from constituency? Check.<br /><br />Seriously, what do Labour have to do to lose the Glasgow vote? Mohammad Sarwar hardly replied to any email either me or my sister sent him, and when he did his answers were pathetic and showed a complete lack of basic understanding of the points being made, never mind agreeing with them.<br /><br />Anas Sarwar's ENTIRE campaign (and I have the election leaflets to prove it) was: "only us or the Tories can win here. Don't let them back in." That's it. No positive message at all. But why should he have bothered? We've just witnessed the proof that it's a complete waste of time for a Labour politician to even think up policies, never mind actually making promises and subsequently trying to keep them. It was a massive lie, the Tories would never have won here or anywhere else in Glasgow... BUT PEOPLE FELL FOR IT!<br /><br />I'm really starting to think it's time the northern parts of Scotland decided to move on with independence for itself and leave everything south of Perth to rot in the UK. After all, we've got the oil in Aberdeen, and we would no longer have to waste it on Glasgow's self-imposed problems. I would say Scotland has just gotten the result it deserves, but it hasn't - it's gotten the result Glasgow wanted.Doug Danielhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15017218581660887134noreply@blogger.com