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Post by stb12 on Mar 14, 2024 1:52:08 GMT
Dundee Central
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Post by doktorb🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ on May 3, 2024 15:21:12 GMT
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Post by doktorb🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ on May 3, 2024 16:31:35 GMT
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Post by xenon on May 4, 2024 16:26:09 GMT
Crick says that Richard McCready was imposed here, but that the CLP by and large only had an issue with the lack of local oversight rather than McCready himself. McCready was a councillor in the West End ward until 2022 (he was beaten by Humza Yousaf's wife Nadia El-Nakla), and had the unfortunate position of being the only Labour councillor in Dundee to lose their seat.
However in Arbroath and Broughty Ferry, the imposed candidate is Cheryl-Ann Cruickshank, the daughter of sitting Maryfield councillor Georgia Cruickshank. A cursory Google suggests that she is CEO of the Dundee University Students' Union and has no prior political experience, so I imagine her selection will be more controversial.
Neither of them stand a chance to be quite honest, Dundee Central could definitely swing back to being more marginal, but Arbroath and Broughty Ferry would be the last SNP seat to fall in the event of a wipeout.
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Post by markgoodair on May 23, 2024 20:33:30 GMT
Alan Ross will be the Alba party candidate.
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Post by stb12 on May 23, 2024 20:33:57 GMT
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Post by Forfarshire Conservative on May 23, 2024 20:47:03 GMT
Aye, I'll give it all due consideration😉. Ross is also interesting as a candidate as he is a former SNP councillor in Lochee. He'll know that place pretty well and every vote he's able to chip off Law will help Labour. |
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Post by Forfarshire Conservative on Jun 7, 2024 16:30:12 GMT
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Post by xenon on Jun 7, 2024 16:32:58 GMT
Dundee Central SOPN here www.dundeecity.gov.uk/sites/default/files/publications/notice_of_poll_and_persons_nominated.pdfSNP Labour Co-op Conservative Lib Dems Alba Reform UK Family Party Workers Party TUSC Independent The Independent is listed as Niko Omilana, which is the name of the YouTuber who stood in the 2021 London Mayoral Election. I'm presuming it is someone else who either has the same name by co-incidence, or more likely is impersonating him using the 'commonly known as' wheeze, since it says they live in the constituency and the subscribers are all very dull and worthy Dundonian-sounding names! EDITMystery solved in the election agents document, the candidate's real name is Olivia Jayne Dewar! Bizarre way to waste £500 and I'd be interested to know if there are any legal implications? |
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Post by xenon on Jun 7, 2024 16:48:19 GMT
Raymond Mennie rang a bell, and a quick Google suggests an illustrious career starting out as the Communist candidate for Dundee West in 1979 (as well as several local council candidacies stretching back to the 1960s), followed by a conversion to Labour as their East Angus candidate in 1987. At some point he was elected to Tayside Regional Council for Labour but was then jailed along with a Tory councillor for corruption in 1993. By the 2012 locals he's the TUSC candidate in the West End ward, before returning to the Communist Party in 2016 as their sole candidate on the North East regional list. At the 2017 locals he stood again in the West End ward but for the Scottish Socialist Party. And now seemingly he's on the Galloway bandwagon this time around, whom he will of course be familiar with from when the Gorgeous One was running the Dundee CLP in the 1980s!
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Post by johnloony on Jun 7, 2024 20:22:04 GMT
Dundee Central SOPN here www.dundeecity.gov.uk/sites/default/files/publications/notice_of_poll_and_persons_nominated.pdfSNP Labour Co-op Conservative Lib Dems Alba Reform UK Family Party Workers Party TUSC Independent The Independent is listed as Niko Omilana, which is the name of the YouTuber who stood in the 2021 London Mayoral Election. I'm presuming it is someone else who either has the same name by co-incidence, or more likely is impersonating him using the 'commonly known as' wheeze, since it says they live in the constituency and the subscribers are all very dull and worthy Dundonian-sounding names! EDITMystery solved in the election agents document, the candidate's real name is Olivia Jayne Dewar! Bizarre way to waste £500 and I'd be interested to know if there are any legal implications? If all the “Niko Omilana” candidates are different people using the “commonly known as” method, then there is nothing wrong with it legally. The thing wrong with it is that they are insane enough to think that it will get them more votes than otherwise. |
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Post by Forfarshire Conservative on Jun 7, 2024 22:40:25 GMT
Dundee Central SOPN here www.dundeecity.gov.uk/sites/default/files/publications/notice_of_poll_and_persons_nominated.pdfSNP Labour Co-op Conservative Lib Dems Alba Reform UK Family Party Workers Party TUSC Independent The Independent is listed as Niko Omilana, which is the name of the YouTuber who stood in the 2021 London Mayoral Election. I'm presuming it is someone else who either has the same name by co-incidence, or more likely is impersonating him using the 'commonly known as' wheeze, since it says they live in the constituency and the subscribers are all very dull and worthy Dundonian-sounding names! EDITMystery solved in the election agents document, the candidate's real name is Olivia Jayne Dewar! Bizarre way to waste £500 and I'd be interested to know if there are any legal implications? If all the “Niko Omilana” candidates are different people using the “commonly known as” method, then there is nothing wrong with it legally. The thing wrong with it is that they are insane enough to think that it will get them more votes than otherwise. Dundee is a university city, double university in fact, so they might get a couple of dozen extra votes from some zoomers who recognise the name. |
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Post by Forfarshire Conservative on Jun 11, 2024 22:12:29 GMT
I favour the SNP here. If this was held at any other time if year, I think Labour would get it. Dundee has one of the highest student populations in the UK and one of the highest in Europe too, with one in 7 people here being students. There are also a lot of pensioners in Dundee too, who are also likely to go back to Labour. However, without the student population I think the SNP will retain my city, albeit perhaps narrowly. Therefore, can we have a poll here stb12 please? Labour gain v SNP hold. |
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Post by stb12 on Jun 11, 2024 22:14:04 GMT
I favour the SNP here. If this was held at any other time if year, I think Labour would get it. Dundee has one of the highest student populations in the UK and one of the highest in Europe too, with one in 7 people here being students. There are also a lot of pensioners in Dundee too, who are also likely to go back to Labour. However, without the student population I think the SNP will retain my city, albeit perhaps narrowly. Therefore, can we have a poll here stb12 please? Labour gain v SNP hold. i l was wondering whether to do this one when going through myself, surely at least a couple or so SNP seats are safe? However as it’s requested happy to oblige! |
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Post by edgbaston on Jun 11, 2024 23:13:19 GMT
I favour the SNP here. If this was held at any other time if year, I think Labour would get it. Dundee has one of the highest student populations in the UK and one of the highest in Europe too, with one in 7 people here being students. There are also a lot of pensioners in Dundee too, who are also likely to go back to Labour. However, without the student population I think the SNP will retain my city, albeit perhaps narrowly. Therefore, can we have a poll here stb12 please? Labour gain v SNP hold. Is there evidence students are very Labour, I thought young people were pro Indy and we were polling worse amongst that one age bracket vs 2019. |
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Post by xenon on Jun 12, 2024 8:57:42 GMT
I favour the SNP here. If this was held at any other time if year, I think Labour would get it. Dundee has one of the highest student populations in the UK and one of the highest in Europe too, with one in 7 people here being students. There are also a lot of pensioners in Dundee too, who are also likely to go back to Labour. However, without the student population I think the SNP will retain my city, albeit perhaps narrowly. Therefore, can we have a poll here stb12 please? Labour gain v SNP hold. Is there evidence students are very Labour, I thought young people were pro Indy and we were polling worse amongst that one age bracket vs 2019. Agreed, although I'd imagine the lack of Scottish students who mainly go for the SNP is balanced by English students who mainly go for Labour. |
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Post by Forfarshire Conservative on Jun 12, 2024 9:33:58 GMT
I favour the SNP here. If this was held at any other time if year, I think Labour would get it. Dundee has one of the highest student populations in the UK and one of the highest in Europe too, with one in 7 people here being students. There are also a lot of pensioners in Dundee too, who are also likely to go back to Labour. However, without the student population I think the SNP will retain my city, albeit perhaps narrowly. Therefore, can we have a poll here stb12 please? Labour gain v SNP hold. Is there evidence students are very Labour, I thought young people were pro Indy and we were polling worse amongst that one age bracket vs 2019. has already said it, but my thoughts on this are based on the preponderance of English and Northern Irish students who attend. They're Labour and have no real reason to vote SNP. |
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Post by Forfarshire Conservative on Jun 26, 2024 12:39:32 GMT
Glut of election literature this morning. I got leaflets from Alba, TUSC, Reform and the Scottish Family Party. This is the only literature I have received all election, none from the SNP or Labour.
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Post by bjornhattan on Jun 26, 2024 13:35:49 GMT
Is there evidence students are very Labour, I thought young people were pro Indy and we were polling worse amongst that one age bracket vs 2019. has already said it, but my thoughts on this are based on the preponderance of English and Northern Irish students who attend. They're Labour and have no real reason to vote SNP. There are also a fair few St Andrews postgrads who live here and commute (due to Dundee being much cheaper and livelier). Obviously many of these are international but quite a lot would be English too, I'd imagine. |
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Post by irish observer on Jun 26, 2024 17:33:46 GMT
SNP's Gandalf to hold.
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