CatholicLeft
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Post by CatholicLeft on Mar 27, 2021 14:05:23 GMT
I do hope we see an Alba Party candidate for this one. Well, Chic Brodie is a former SNP MSP and founded his own party "Scotia Future" last year to run in these elections. Alex Salmond did say "vote for SNP and other Independence Parties in the constituencies". |
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Post by john07 on Mar 27, 2021 14:58:59 GMT
I assume the narrative is that as the SNP win most of the constituency seats in most areas so they will not have much scope to take list seats. Many years ago Ian Davidson suggested the Labour should not contest the list seats in Scotland but leave that to the Co-operative Party. I doubt that the Co-op Party would have been considered as a separate party from Labour in this context. Why not? They're a separate party with their own constitution aren't they? That was the argument that Davidson put forward. It was designed to shaft the Lib Dems. I don't think that anyone agreed with him. |
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Post by No Offence Alan on Mar 29, 2021 20:28:17 GMT
It's strange how by-elections keep occurring in the same places. E.g. Hartlepool and here. At the Coatbridge and Airdrie by-election in 1982 I met my wife for the first time. At Monklands East in 1994 I met erlend of this parish for the first time. Maybe I should pop along to this one - I might meet wife #2? |
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Post by iainbhx on Mar 29, 2021 20:32:51 GMT
It's strange how by-elections keep occurring in the same places. E.g. Hartlepool and here. I've done two Eastleighs and two Brecon and Radnors. I have a list of places I'd rather not do a second by-election in. |
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Post by No Offence Alan on Mar 29, 2021 20:40:40 GMT
It's strange how by-elections keep occurring in the same places. E.g. Hartlepool and here. I've done two Eastleighs and two Brecon and Radnors. I have a list of places I'd rather not do a second by-election in. I have also had a Paisley North and 2 Paisley Souths right on my doorstep. |
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Post by finsobruce on Mar 29, 2021 20:43:39 GMT
It's strange how by-elections keep occurring in the same places. E.g. Hartlepool and here. At the Coatbridge and Airdrie by-election in 1982 I met my wife for the first time. At Monklands East in 1994 I met erlend of this parish for the first time. Maybe I should pop along to this one - I might meet wife #2? Or you might just meet erlend again. *
* which would be great obviously.
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Post by iainbhx on Mar 29, 2021 20:47:48 GMT
It's strange how by-elections keep occurring in the same places. E.g. Hartlepool and here. At the Coatbridge and Airdrie by-election in 1982 I met my wife for the first time. At Monklands East in 1994 I met erlend of this parish for the first time. Maybe I should pop along to this one - I might meet wife #2? Or you might just meet erlend again. * * which would be great obviously.
It would be. I often run into Erlend at by-elections. |
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Post by finsobruce on Mar 29, 2021 20:49:35 GMT
Or you might just meet erlend again. * * which would be great obviously.
It would be. I often run into Erlend at by-elections. Ah, so he might meet you as well.  |
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Post by gwynthegriff on Mar 29, 2021 21:34:56 GMT
It's strange how by-elections keep occurring in the same places. E.g. Hartlepool and here. I've done two Eastleighs and two Brecon and Radnors. I have a list of places I'd rather not do a second by-election in. Can you put Crewe & Nantwich on that list please ? Please ! |
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Post by greenchristian on Mar 29, 2021 21:54:04 GMT
It would be. I often run into Erlend at by-elections. Ah, so he might meet you as well. The greatness of which is so much more obvious that you didn't even need to mention it... |
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carlton43
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Post by carlton43 on Mar 29, 2021 22:00:47 GMT
Or you might just meet erlend again. * * which would be great obviously.
It would be. I often run into Erlend at by-elections. Well you should be more bloody careful after it has happened so often. |
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Post by johnloony on Mar 29, 2021 22:28:49 GMT
It's strange how by-elections keep occurring in the same places. E.g. Hartlepool and here. At the Coatbridge and Airdrie by-election in 1982 I met my wife for the first time. At Monklands East in 1994 I met erlend of this parish for the first time. Maybe I should pop along to this one - I might meet wife #2? No, it isn't strange at all. In the long term, it is entirely to be expected - a bit like the birthday 23 people thing. |
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Post by Andrew_S on Mar 29, 2021 22:41:34 GMT
It's strange how by-elections keep occurring in the same places. E.g. Hartlepool and here. At the Coatbridge and Airdrie by-election in 1982 I met my wife for the first time. At Monklands East in 1994 I met erlend of this parish for the first time. Maybe I should pop along to this one - I might meet wife #2? No, it isn't strange at all. In the long term, it is entirely to be expected - a bit like the birthday 23 people thing. Depends how you look at it. It's strange that it happened to someone from that person's point of view, but it isn't strange that it happened in general. |
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Post by ColinJ on Mar 30, 2021 6:26:52 GMT
It's strange how by-elections keep occurring in the same places. E.g. Hartlepool and here. At the Coatbridge and Airdrie by-election in 1982 I met my wife for the first time. At Monklands East in 1994 I met erlend of this parish for the first time. Maybe I should pop along to this one - I might meet wife #2? No, it isn't strange at all. In the long term, it is entirely to be expected - a bit like the birthday 23 people thing. Funny story. Many years ago I tried out this apparently strange quirk of probability. My birthday (26 August) was no. 1 on the list. I then asked people, in the order that they entered my office (obviously on other business!) what their birthday was. Got to, I think, the twenty-first person and --- bingo! --- a pair of matching birthdays. What made it weirder was that person's birthday was 26 August as well (different year, thank goodness, or I would have heard Twilight Zone music in the background). |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 30, 2021 9:24:30 GMT
Three people have opted for 'Conservative Gain'...
For a laugh?
I'd be delighted but I've gone for an SNP hold.
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Post by minionofmidas on Mar 30, 2021 13:57:52 GMT
Three people have opted for 'Conservative Gain'... For a laugh? I'd be delighted but I've gone for an SNP hold. For boogieeck's sake. |
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Post by johnloony on Mar 30, 2021 20:11:02 GMT
No, it isn't strange at all. In the long term, it is entirely to be expected - a bit like the birthday 23 people thing. Funny story. Many years ago I tried out this apparently strange quirk of probability. My birthday (26 August) was no. 1 on the list. I then asked people, in the order that they entered my office (obviously on other business!) what their birthday was. Got to, I think, the twenty-first person and --- bingo! --- a pair of matching birthdays. What made it weirder was that person's birthday was 26 August as well (different year, thank goodness, or I would have heard Twilight Zone music in the background). In my class at school there were 24 boys, with one coincident birthday. The weird thing in that example was that if you put everybody in alphabetical order (according to the register), the coincident birthday didn't appear until you add the 24th person. |
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Post by greenhert on Apr 1, 2021 20:27:06 GMT
Jim Dowson plans to stand as an Independent:
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Post by johnloony on Apr 2, 2021 17:00:04 GMT
Jim Dowson plans to stand as an Independent: Who he, I wondered? His tweets are quite revealing: the most recent few are: (1) conflating the liberation of the Falkland Islands from Argentinian occupation with the struggle against Marxist trade unions (2) religious fundamentalism (3) saying something nice about Nick Griffin (4) something about Serbian nationalism (5) something about Hungarian nationalism (6) something about Ulster Loyalist parades (7) homophobic dribble (8) throw your TV out of the window in order to defeat Covid (9) more religious bigotry |
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Post by greenchristian on Apr 2, 2021 17:46:45 GMT
Jim Dowson plans to stand as an Independent: Who he, I wondered? His tweets are quite revealing: the most recent few are: (1) conflating the liberation of the Falkland Islands from Argentinian occupation with the struggle against Marxist trade unions (2) religious fundamentalism (3) saying something nice about Nick Griffin (4) something about Serbian nationalism (5) something about Hungarian nationalism (6) something about Ulster Loyalist parades (7) homophobic dribble (8) throw your TV out of the window in order to defeat Covid (9) more religious bigotry Tweets made on Good Friday talking about the Crucifixion of Jesus causing the forgiveness of sins (the tweets you label as (2)) are in no way, shape, or form fundamentalist. It's pretty much the entire point of what Christians of all kinds are celebrating around the world today. Obviously the rest of his recent twitter history is rather disturbing and revealing, but those ones simply demonstrate that the guy is at least nominally a Christian.
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