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Post by The Bishop on May 6, 2014 9:52:51 GMT
I think that makes it a five seat Labour majority now, when a hung council was elected there back in 2012.
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Post by Khunanup on May 27, 2014 8:33:09 GMT
Fraser Forsyth Aberdeen City Coucil, Conservative to non aligned. What's the story Fraser? You and Boogs really setting up the Scottish Whigs?! |
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Post by BossMan on May 27, 2014 8:47:21 GMT
Is this actually official then? Because I'm about to write a blog about it.  |
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Post by Deleted on May 27, 2014 11:05:49 GMT
Fraser Forsyth Aberdeen City Coucil, Conservative to non aligned. Moving down to the Championship from the Premiership then. |
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Post by Arthur Figgis on May 27, 2014 11:47:50 GMT
But not, please note, to the Highland League that is "Independent" You do the Highland League a great disservice. |
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Post by johnr on May 27, 2014 13:46:28 GMT
How many actual conservatives are there on Aberdeen City now? Difficult to keep up.
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Post by Tony Otim on May 27, 2014 14:05:05 GMT
1 now, unless the other one's been allowed back.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 20, 2016 21:04:16 GMT
Marie Penman - won dysart by election for SNP to Independent. Fife Council
Iain Angus MacDonald SNP resigns, another Oban North and Lorn ward by election A&B
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Post by Deleted on May 25, 2016 16:53:28 GMT
Not quite a defection bu probably done a bit of damage  |
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Post by gwynthegriff on May 25, 2016 18:30:33 GMT
Not quite a defection bu probably done a bit of damage That's a pretty impressive critique, but what does "forbye" mean? Scottish construction? |
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Post by Deleted on May 25, 2016 19:35:54 GMT
Forbye = plus, besides
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Post by Deleted on Oct 21, 2016 21:12:40 GMT
New Indie Group formed in Fife. Marie Penman Former SNP who is inspired by Tommy Sheridan, Bryan Poole, Former Left of Centre Labour, Bill Brown, former SNP.
Both SNP members were unsuccesful applicants for Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath selection
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Post by jimboo2017 on Aug 24, 2021 0:44:17 GMT
Geva Blackett, councillor for Aboyne, Upper Deeside & Donside Ward quit SNP
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Post by Daft H'a'porth A'peth A'pith on Aug 24, 2021 5:48:44 GMT
Geva Blackett, councillor for Aboyne, Upper Deeside & Donside Ward quit SNP Will now sit as an independent due to the deal with the Greens |
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Post by The Bishop on Aug 24, 2021 10:22:36 GMT
Paging @boogieeck to the thread.....
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Post by Forfarshire Conservative on Aug 24, 2021 19:38:18 GMT
Thank you Your Grace. For those who do not know her or of her, Geva Blackett is or was an English High Tory whose younger brother to her chagrin got the title and seat in the Lords, around the time that most of them lost them. I met her online and she sent Ben Wallace to meet me resulting in me joining the Conservative party. Her political ambitions within the party were thwarted and she defected, to much surprise, to the SNP. She became the first SNP councilor for Upper Deeside, which includes Balmoral. It is common to denounce defections of councilors as unprincipled and self-serving, and I have to insist that this is not true in this instance. It was her original joining of the SNP that was unprincipled and self-serving. She has now reverted to type over a genuine matter of principle, she is a Countryside Alliance supporter and worked for its Scottish Landowners front body the Gamekeepers Association. I had her down as a possible defector to Alba but her defection at this time may well indicate that she has no intention of defending her seat. I rather like Geva. With her having the passionate views you describe, her being an independence supporter is odd, is it not? I have no doubt that the SNP and their allies, and Alba enemies, would seek to destroy hunting, shooting and fishing communities, as well as tear the estates asunder, should this country ever make the mistake of becoming independent. |
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Post by stb12 on Aug 24, 2021 20:38:22 GMT
Before they made the more recent big inroads into Glasgow and the surrounding areas the SNP’s main strength was in traditional Tory areas
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Post by No Offence Alan on Aug 24, 2021 20:51:23 GMT
Before they made the more recent big inroads into Glasgow and the surrounding areas the SNP’s main strength was in traditional Tory areas Yes, not so long ago, Moray, Banff and Galloway were 3 of the SNP's 6 Westminster seats. Now they are 3 of the Scottish Tories' 6 Westminster seats. |
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Post by stb12 on Aug 24, 2021 20:55:43 GMT
Before they made the more recent big inroads into Glasgow and the surrounding areas the SNP’s main strength was in traditional Tory areas Yes, not so long ago, Moray, Banff and Galloway were 3 of the SNP's 6 Westminster seats. Now they are 3 of the Scottish Tories' 6 Westminster seats. They’d only ever won a Glasgow seat in by elections before until quite recently, all previous times they lost them again at general elections, similar with seats in Lanarkshire etc I believe? Now those are pretty much safe SNP seats, albeit Scottish politics can be volatile anywhere as 2017 showed |
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