Tony Otim
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Post by Tony Otim on Jun 27, 2024 17:13:29 GMT
Bumper crop today
Addressed letter (to the wife) from SNP candidate, quite a heavy climate change focus.
Addressed letter (to me, yay!) from Keir Starmer asking me to vote for Ian Murray
Free post from the Greens
Free post from Alba -only Alba have a plan to deliver independence, but you have to scan the QR code to see what it is, not doing that.
Very text heavy leaflet from Edinburgh People - never in the field of electoral politics have so many words been used to say so little. 2 packed sides of A4 and they don't have a single policy in there. They have a meeting 2 months after the election to decide their policies. The more I see of them the more this seems like a bad idea dreamt up on a drunken night out which they still haven't seen the problems with.
So I think that's something from everyone now, but only Labour have given us more than one.
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Tony Otim
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Post by Tony Otim on Jun 28, 2024 15:30:47 GMT
Second leaflet from the Lib Dems today - addressed to me, bit more actual policy than the last one.
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Tony Otim
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Post by Tony Otim on Jun 29, 2024 17:08:57 GMT
And second leaflet from the Conservatives today- addressed to me - pretty similar to the first.
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Post by john07 on Jun 30, 2024 18:38:37 GMT
Just received a first leaflet of the campaign. An addressed generic Lib Dem A5 leaflet.
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Post by irish observer on Jul 1, 2024 11:46:23 GMT
Labour hold.
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Tony Otim
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Post by Tony Otim on Jul 1, 2024 21:51:55 GMT
Saw my first SNP poster today in Morningside. Gradually more Labour posters appearing and they definitely lead overall now, whilst a week or two back I'd seen more Green than labour ones. None from anybody else spotted yet.
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Post by stb12 on Jul 1, 2024 21:55:11 GMT
Saw my first SNP poster today in Morningside. Gradually more Labour posters appearing and they definitely lead overall now, whilst a week or two back I'd seen more Green than labour ones. None from anybody else spotted yet. Hardly worth anyone’s time, this seat must be Murray’s for as long as he wants it (barring boundary changes chopping it up at some point) |
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Post by spqr on Jul 1, 2024 22:00:18 GMT
Saw my first SNP poster today in Morningside. Gradually more Labour posters appearing and they definitely lead overall now, whilst a week or two back I'd seen more Green than labour ones. None from anybody else spotted yet. My impression is roughly the opposite - I've seen more SNP than Labour posters so far (although I'm largely restricted to East and Musselburgh/North and Leith rather than South). The only non-SNP/Lab/Green electoral paraphernalia I've spotted is a tiny Lib Dem diamond on the bay window of a flat in Strathearn Road. |
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Tony Otim
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Post by Tony Otim on Jul 2, 2024 8:16:20 GMT
Saw my first SNP poster today in Morningside. Gradually more Labour posters appearing and they definitely lead overall now, whilst a week or two back I'd seen more Green than labour ones. None from anybody else spotted yet. Hardly worth anyone’s time, this seat must be Murray’s for as long as he wants it (barring boundary changes chopping it up at some point) I think a challenge is certainly possible once Labour are back in both governments, but it probably takes another election for somebody else to establish themselves as challengers and by the election after that Murray will have been there for well over 20 years and may have had enough. |
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Tony Otim
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Post by Tony Otim on Jul 4, 2024 14:42:50 GMT
Just back from voting - main activity at both the polling station at the end of my road I have to walk past and the one I actually vote at was the A-boards being devastated by the good Scottish wind - but I did deliberately pick a quiet time to vote as I'm just recovering from a bout of Covid, so not reading too much into that.
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john07
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Post by john07 on Jul 4, 2024 14:50:59 GMT
I have just returned from voting at Holy Corner. No one outside the polling station when I arrived but bumped into Ian Murray on the way out. It was fairly brisk with a steady stream of voters.
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Post by borderscot on Jul 4, 2024 16:00:22 GMT
Pretty quiet when I voted at Greenbank this morning. Was around 09:30 so not exactly peak time. No party representatives outside at all.
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Tony Otim
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Post by Tony Otim on Jul 5, 2024 3:27:11 GMT
Lab 53.3
SNP 16.5
Grn 9.1
Con 8.5
LD 5.9
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Post by ntyuk1707 on Jul 13, 2024 20:31:34 GMT
Lab 53.3 SNP 16.5 Grn 9.1 Con 8.5 LD 5.9 Remarkable how much the Conservatives and Lib Dems have been squeezed out of contention here. In 2010 the Lib Dems were just 300 votes short of winning here and the Conservatives polled a respectable 22%. |
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