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Post by Deleted on Jul 5, 2024 1:11:53 GMT
Helensburgh is horrible. A company town where every hotel pub and restaurant has a clientele that is on expenses and will never return so there is no need or benefit to making an effort North Berwick it is then, or Stonehaven. |
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Post by No Offence Alan on Jul 5, 2024 3:24:33 GMT
Argyll Tory women are so polite I wouldn't mind retiring to Helensburgh, if not Aberdeenshire or North Berwick. You will Rhu the day. |
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Post by Kristofer Keane on Jul 5, 2024 11:24:51 GMT
I wouldn't mind retiring to Helensburgh, if not Aberdeenshire or North Berwick. You will Rhu the day. Why retire? Live life in the Faslane! |
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Post by jimboo2017 on Jul 5, 2024 20:19:39 GMT
Why retire? Live life in the Faslane! PO mess has the best food in the West of Scotland |
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Post by jimboo2017 on Jul 5, 2024 20:22:43 GMT
Helensburgh is horrible. A company town where every hotel pub and restaurant has a clientele that is on expenses and will never return so there is no need or benefit to making an effort North Berwick it is then, or Stonehaven. Helensburgh the friendliest town
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Post by binky on Jul 7, 2024 15:24:19 GMT
In a fantasy world where Jackie Baillie had stuck with her Holyrood retirement plans and contested here, I have to wonder whether she could have won through unionist tactical voting. At the very least, she probably could have achieved a close second.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 7, 2024 15:25:35 GMT
In a fantasy world where Jackie Baillie had stuck with her Holyrood retirement plans and contested here, I have to wonder whether she could have won through unionist tactical voting. At the very least, she probably could have achieved a close second. Yes that seems reasonable. Labour got pretty close to winning Argyll & Bute in the 2001 election and these boundaries would have been better for them I think. |
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Post by ntyuk1707 on Jul 27, 2024 21:08:36 GMT
The SNP only polled 34.7% here compared to 33.3% in neighbouring Inverness, Skye & West Ross-shire which was won by the Liberal Democrats with the Scottish Greens standing with 4.2% there.
A strong Lib Dem performance in the Scottish Highlands puts the SNP in danger in Argyll & Bute at the forthcoming Scottish Parliamentary election. It is very possible that the party could lose all of its constituency seats in the Highlands and Islands region at the next Scottish Parliamentary election for the first time in the history of Scottish devolution.
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Post by Foggy on Jul 27, 2024 22:22:16 GMT
The Holyrood version of the Argyll & Bute seat is likely to have an electorate only a little over half the size of this one come 2026. Does that favour the SNP or their unionist opposition??
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Post by ntyuk1707 on Jul 28, 2024 0:02:28 GMT
The Holyrood version of the Argyll & Bute seat is likely to have an electorate only a little over half the size of this one come 2026. Does that favour the SNP or their unionist opposition?? The Scottish Parliamentary boundary definitely favours the SNP. Three wards covering Helensburgh and Lomond which had a combined vote against Scottish independence of 73% in 2014 are not part of the Scottish Parliamentary seat, but instead form part of Jackie Baillie's constituency of Dumbarton. The Fort William & Ardnamurchan ward which voted narrowly in favour of independence but has swung strongly to the Liberal Democrats in recent years is part of Kate Forbes' constituency of Skye, Lochaber & Badenoch. The remaining Argyll & Bute constituency was quite mixed at the independence referendum (54% No). The Kintyre peninsula and some areas around Loch Fyne were strongly No-leaning, contrasting a strong Yes result in Mull and Oban. A Yes vote in neighbouring Inverness, Skye & Wester Ross constituency did not stop the Lib Dems winning there, so with a concerted effort it is feasible that the party could win Argyll & Bute; Skye, Lochaber & Badenoch and Inverness & Nairn in 2026. |
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