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Post by erlend on Jan 21, 2014 21:22:20 GMT
The 92 election nearly cost me a 2.2
I got 49.88% which they rounded.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 21, 2014 21:36:43 GMT
The 92 election nearly cost me a 2.2 I got 49.88% which they rounded. I missed a first overall by a single mark in one course.. I'm going to blame the Scottish Parliament and then local elections in my honours years  . Still there are more important things and I'm glad I was involved really. |
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Post by J.G.Harston on Jan 22, 2014 3:47:32 GMT
The 92 election nearly cost me a 2.2 I got 49.88% which they rounded. I missed a first overall by a single mark in one course.. I'm going to blame the Scottish Parliament and then local elections in my honours years . Still there are more important things and I'm glad I was involved really. I missed mine because I took Japanese as a subsidiary of my Computing Science degree, so I could, (cough) pull female Japanese students who were there studying English, and was short just one unit of Japanese.  |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 22, 2014 11:59:54 GMT
On balance, it was probably for the best that I didn't take the 2012 council election quite as seriously as I might have. If I had, I probably wouldn't have got a First, and therefore would not be doing what I'm doing now.
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Post by mrhell on Jan 22, 2014 12:56:38 GMT
I missed a first overall by a single mark in one course.. I'm going to blame the Scottish Parliament and then local elections in my honours years . Still there are more important things and I'm glad I was involved really. I missed mine because I took Japanese as a subsidiary of my Computing Science degree, so I could, (cough) pull female Japanese students who were there studying English, and was short just one unit of Japanese. You are Lionel Zipser and I claim my £5. |
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Post by anthony on Feb 3, 2014 10:39:31 GMT
Not sure if was politics or the sex-crazed blond that really did for me in my finals. Evan Harris looked mightily annoyed when I said I wouldn't really be able to do much until my finals had finished (3 days before the 2001 election). His words were "Well, you're no use to me". Sadly I didn't have the attentions of a 'sex-crazed blond[e]' to distract me. |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 3, 2014 10:55:56 GMT
Not sure if was politics or the sex-crazed blond that really did for me in my finals. Evan Harris looked mightily annoyed when I said I wouldn't really be able to do much until my finals had finished (3 days before the 2001 election). His words were "Well, you're no use to me". Sadly I didn't have the attentions of a 'sex-crazed blond[e]' to distract me. I was glad to be of some use in getting rid of him! |
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Post by anthony on Feb 3, 2014 11:30:07 GMT
I was glad to be of some use in getting rid of him! Although who did you put in his place! |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 3, 2014 11:36:02 GMT
I was glad to be of some use in getting rid of him! Although who did you put in his place! Some religious nutter? Didn't really think about that bit too much! |
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Post by Pete Whitehead on Apr 1, 2014 9:42:42 GMT
So you're an Independent
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Post by AdminSTB on Apr 1, 2014 10:57:41 GMT
I will simply note on this thread that I am no longer a member of any political party. Boogie/Keane Independent Alliance  |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 1, 2014 11:05:29 GMT
I will simply note on this thread that I am no longer a member of any political party. Boogie/Keane Independent Alliance We're all filthy independents? For shame! |
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Post by AdminSTB on Apr 1, 2014 11:10:19 GMT
Psephologists Party. We campaign for councils to tweet by-election results as soon as they're declared, and for unreasonably large government subsidies to websites that host election results.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 1, 2014 22:34:03 GMT
Do you intend to vote next year for Alexander Burnett of Leys or Sir Robert Smith, 3rd Baronet?
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Post by Deleted on Apr 1, 2014 23:15:31 GMT
Let's hope the SNP select a Tartan Whig then...  |
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Post by carlton43 on Apr 2, 2014 0:28:41 GMT
Having once been a member of the Liberal Party, I then allowed a period of time between my departure and my joining another party to elapse. I commend this action to all who are disaffected with their present party. If you can no longer play for your team, walk off the park. Do not switch sides to the other team, it is a betrayal of all those who trusted in you. I will not be joining any other party this year and may re-join the Conservative party. I will never campaign for or vote for any candidate who lacks a party label. Your first sentence lacks clarity. If you deleted "...to elapse" it would make better sense...I think? What has finally caused the breach with the Conservatives? Is it the Scottish or Cameroon or both that have done it? Why would you not support a candidate without a party label? I have often felt better about support for an independent than any other vote cast. |
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Post by carlton43 on Apr 2, 2014 10:41:23 GMT
Firstly, any party needs to offer me a candidate I can confidently vote for. So far, none has done so but I am open to offers. Unlike most party members of all parties I am political and I work for my candidate. I don't bother to join then sit back for two years, so I need a candidate I can work for. Secondly, I have no personal ambition, which for many activists keeps them going in lean years. I have also repaid all my favours. Thirdly, my jury is out on the Scottish Conservatives. From the leadership, I want to see some action taken on the enemy within. Until I see it, I am left with the nagging doubt that I am the enemy within and have been too stupid to pick up on it. For example, I would really like to see Lord Forsyth told very publicly by some very senior figures that he is the man who made the party what it is today, unelectable - and that he could help us out by taking a few other stupid old goats with him to somebody else's banner. From the rank and file I am bored with the attitudes to immigration and am past being polite. I can just about accept the bigotry and prejudice but I cannot accept the total lack of faith in free market economics and individual liberty. I am bored by how apolitical and economically illiterate they mostly are. But to be clear, they are no worse than labour or Lib Dem activists, and in terms of bigotry trail the SNP by a considerable margin. On Cameron, I am neutral, on Osborne, mostly positive, with Danny Boy he has doe a fine job of clearing up the mess those imbeciles Brown and Balls left behind. I have almost forgiven the appalling support given to the housing bubble, which I know was a conjuring trick which raised as much in stamp duty as it cost. But I hated it. It was a dog whistle to values I despise. Carlton, you are a voter, you know what Independents stand for. I was a Councillor with them, I know what they actually are. I never notice this British affection for All Fools Day until too late. Well done! Expound further on your anti-independent views as I imagine they are quite deep and possibly important? I suppose you think independents are given to arrogance, vanity and self promotion because they are too individualistic to fit in to a party system which it is essential to have if any cohesive policy is to be formulated and carried through. I don't see it that way. |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 2, 2014 12:43:01 GMT
I too would struggle to join the Scottish Conservatives - it appears far too much like the North-East Conservative Party. Largely moribund, totally accepting of the economic views of the dominant labour party and largely only existing as a seperate entity because they have vague ill founded fears about the modern world. They are too lazy and sedentary to even bother joining UKIP - whose views they lie much closer too.
Even in Hexhamshire - a tory stronghold by any standard, the dominant view is an intolerant form of social democracy.
The common consensus is to blame the south for out-competing - indeed they will blame all their problems on anyone and anything infront of lazy big government that is dragging the country down. They still are happy to take the souths handouts though. No wonder they are labour strongholds - anyone with any ambition leaves. I know loads of fellow geordies and mackems with right wing liberal views - but they sure as hell didn't stay in the North-East. Race to the bottom.
I would vote Yes for Independence and then get out myself!
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Post by Deleted on Apr 2, 2014 12:48:51 GMT
They are too lazy and sedentary to even bother joining UKIP - whose views they lie much closer too. Not sure that that's a reasonable characterisation of the Scottish Conservatives really. For starters, I'm not sure that any Conservative MSP is officially anti-EU. You don't hear much about immigration from them either. More like a mixture of wet Edinburgh bourgeois urbanity combined with rural affairs politics. |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 2, 2014 12:51:23 GMT
They are too lazy and sedentary to even bother joining UKIP - whose views they lie much closer too. Not sure that that's a reasonable characterisation of the Scottish Conservatives really. For starters, I'm not sure that any Conservative MSP is officially anti-EU. You don't hear much about immigration from them either. More like a mixture of wet Edinburgh bourgeois urbanity combined with rural affairs politics. That was more than the NE tories. |
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. Still there are more important things and I'm glad I was involved really. 
