Inverness, Skye and Wester Ross-shire

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Sept 24, 2023 1:03:11 GMT J.G.Harston said:

Sept 23, 2023 20:12:11 GMT spinach said:

Also anecdotal (based entirely on my own personal experience) but I find Scottish people more friendlier, down-to-earth and polite compared to the English. I find it quite a contrast when I come back to London and the South East.

Perhaps some of pro-independence English residents of Scotland get use to the friendly and communitarian approach to life.

Well, London's a foreign country, innit.

To bastardise L.P. Hartley: London is a foreign country; they do things differently there. 

[nyx]

Sept 23, 2023 11:32:12 GMT The Bishop said:

I've heard some admittedly anecdotal accounts of English people who have moved to Scotland being "surprisingly" pro-SNP and independence.

My brother recently moved to Northern Ireland after living in England his whole life, used to be a Lib Dem/Labour voter, I'm fairly sure he now votes Sinn Fein

[Sg1]

Sept 23, 2023 11:32:12 GMT The Bishop said:

I've heard some admittedly anecdotal accounts of English people who have moved to Scotland being "surprisingly" pro-SNP and independence.

This is one of my best friends who I haven't seen in about 9 years and now has a 5 year old daughter. He often wears a kilt and tells me dubious things about Scottish history which I usually nod along with for the sake of not being there all day.

This is all the more amusing because he sounds as much like an English man from Nuneaton as he always has and often parrots online American right wing talking points despite being a card carrying SNP member.

Don't think he's a fan of Humza though.

[The Bishop]

Sept 24, 2023 9:54:34 GMT Sg1 said:

Sept 23, 2023 11:32:12 GMT The Bishop said:

I've heard some admittedly anecdotal accounts of English people who have moved to Scotland being "surprisingly" pro-SNP and independence.

This is one of my best friends who I haven't seen in about 9 years and now has a 5 year old daughter. He often wears a kilt and tells me dubious things about Scottish history which I usually nod along with for the sake of not being there all day.

This is all the more amusing because he sounds as much like an English man from Nuneaton as he always has and often parrots online American right wing talking points despite being a card carrying SNP member.

Don't think he's a fan of Humza though.

An amusing thread in "another place" on whether Trump (who of course has significant Scottish ancestry) would have been an SNP supporter if he was based there.

The consensus was that yes, it was highly plausible.

[Robert Waller]

2011 Census, Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey old boundaries

Age 65+ 16.9% 310/650
Owner-occupied 66.1% 355/650
Private rented 14.4% 311/650
Social rented 16.7% 296/650
White 98.1% 105/650
Black 0.3% 485/650
Asian 1.1% 481/650
Managerial & professional 30.9%
Routine & Semi-routine 28.7%
Degree level 28.1% 231/650
No qualifications 23.3% 318/650
Students 5.2% 623/650

2022 Census, new boundaries
Details will be added here when available


General Election 2019: Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey

Party Candidate Votes % ±%

SNP Drew Hendry 26,247 47.9 +8.0
Conservative Fiona Fawcett 15,807 28.8 -1.7
Liberal Democrats Robert Rixson 5,846 10.7 -1.6
Labour Lewis Whyte 4,123 7.5 -8.7
Scottish Green Ariane Burgess 1,709 3.1 N/A
Brexit Party Les Durance 1,078 2.0 N/A

SNP Majority 10,440 19.1 +9.7

Turnout 54,810 70.2 +1.5

SNP hold
Swing 4.9 C to SNP




Boundary Changes

Inverness, Skye and Wester Ross-shire consists of
67.1% of Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey
45.0% of Ross, Skye & Lochaber


Map
www.bcomm-scotland.independent.gov.uk/sites/default/files/inverness_skye_and_west_ross-shire.pdf

2019 Notional Results on New Boundaries (Professor David Denver for Rallings and Thrasher)

SNP	24717	48.7%
Con	11852	23.3%
LD	7677	15.1%
Lab	4771	9.4%
Brexit	1042	2.9%
Green	623	2.6%
Majority	12865	25.3%