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Post by iang on Aug 1, 2023 20:54:07 GMT
I think he might spark some interest
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Post by carolus on Aug 1, 2023 21:04:48 GMT
Ewan Hoyle will be the UK Volt candidate. Ohm my god! |
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Post by uthacalthing on Aug 1, 2023 21:08:40 GMT
amp erfectly willing to agree with you
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Chris from Brum
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Post by Chris from Brum on Aug 1, 2023 21:12:17 GMT
Ewan Hoyle will be the UK Volt candidate. That's current news, is it? |
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Post by Davıd Boothroyd on Aug 1, 2023 21:16:38 GMT
Ewan Hoyle will be the UK Volt candidate. That's current news, is it? There's a potential difference of opinion on that. |
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Chris from Brum
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Post by Chris from Brum on Aug 1, 2023 21:20:42 GMT
That's current news, is it? There's a potential difference of opinion on that. Is that something you'd wish to plug? |
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Post by Arthur Figgis on Aug 1, 2023 21:24:09 GMT
I’m detecting some resistance to these puns.
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Post by johnloony on Aug 1, 2023 21:26:45 GMT
The pressure will be on for both Labour and the SNP here, with the Tories - for once - breathing a temporary sigh of relief. I anticipate a Labour win, by a modest, if not insignificant, margin. Consider the 2021 by-election in Airdrie and Shotts, with Labour and the SNP swapping places. Turnout will likely be low. Again - similar to the English by-elections - are the good people of Ruthurglen + Hamilton West convinced by a Keir Starmer-led Labour government increasingly moving rightwards on key policy? They may reject the SNP, granted, but are they prepared to come out in support of Labour in large numbers ...? I'm sceptical. The problem for Labour comes in fighting the seat. As this is a Westminster by-election, what Labour policy will their candidate be advocating for? Labour policy, or Scottish Labour policy? There is a divergence and an uneasy one at that on 'two child' benefits, the bedroom tax and other non-devolved matters. That could make for a less than straightforward campaign. Again, still a likely Labour win. I would have expected it to be six months ago too given the 2017 performance. It will be a by-election for the UK Parliament in Westminster, not for the Scottish parliament. So inevitably it will be fought on UK political issues such as inflation and migrant boats. There is no possibility that voters will be illogically distracted by the fact that the SNP is collapsing in the midst of catastrophic criminal mismanagement of finances, or that the SNP administration in Scotland is obsessed with woke gender ideology of allowing men into women’s prisons. We know from other recent by-elections that voters don’t think about irrelevant local issues which are the responsibility of devolved regional assemblies. |
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Post by batman on Aug 1, 2023 21:29:36 GMT
it's OK he won't end up in the lead however adaptorble he is.
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Post by Devil Wincarnate on Aug 1, 2023 21:35:48 GMT
Volt... Sibboleth's skewering of them in the Dutch politics thread holds true. |
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Post by J.G.Harston on Aug 1, 2023 21:47:33 GMT
He’s a shocking candidate. Watt a dreadful pun. High capacitance to be an inductor of magnetic attraction. |
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Post by afleitch on Aug 1, 2023 21:54:12 GMT
A Labour gain here would be their first at a Scottish Westminster by-election in a partisan contest since Rutherglen in 1964.
Glasgow North East in 2009 was a gain from Speaker.
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Post by Pete Whitehead on Aug 1, 2023 22:11:55 GMT
That proved to be rather a good omen for the Labour party. I see that the Conservative candidate at that by-election was the hapless Iain Sproat and his agent was one F.W.S Craig
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Post by carlton43 on Aug 1, 2023 22:28:13 GMT
I think this is the first ever petition that I wouldn’t have signed had I lived in the area - the offence just not serious enough to warrant a by-election for me, and I‘ll take a tiny smidgeon of satisfaction from the turnout being less than expected. Labour really should walk this. I hope they do. I don't approve of the entire process and would repeal it if I could. A candidate is elected and serves, for better for worse, until they die or give up the seat by the present arcane process; until the next GE when they may be removed at the proper process and at the proper time. These are nasty showy grandstanding events designed to satisfy the nastiest attitudes of the nastiest people in politics. It is all 'SO' 21stC and chav and repellent. Enjoy your squalid by-election which I shall shun and ignore like any decent person should. |
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Post by Forfarshire Conservative on Aug 1, 2023 23:04:11 GMT
For clarity, given it has been lightly referenced, our candidate is Thomas Kerr. Our councillor in Shettleston.
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Post by ClevelandYorks on Aug 2, 2023 2:01:21 GMT
That proved to be rather a good omen for the Labour party. I see that the Conservative candidate at that by-election was the hapless Iain Sproat and his agent was one F.W.S Craig Sproat got around, didn't he? I always mix him up with Gerry Malone |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 2, 2023 2:56:05 GMT
Since the Recall of MPs Act passed, voters recalled one Labour, one Tory and one SNP MP. Something for everyone.
Since the gov’t repealed the Fixed Term Parliaments Act, Zac Goldsmith has had more impact on electoral law than the Lib Dems did in coalition since he called for Recalls.
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Post by doktorb🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ on Aug 2, 2023 3:34:50 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Aug 2, 2023 3:40:03 GMT
Puts the cat among the pigeons in party conference season. |
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Post by doktorb🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ on Aug 2, 2023 3:58:20 GMT
2017 declaration
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