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Post by Deleted on Jul 8, 2024 11:27:56 GMT
Somewhere up there Kennedy is smiling.
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Post by jimboo2017 on Jul 8, 2024 11:53:43 GMT
I feel a Monty Python sketch coming on here. 🙂 fro' pawn shop an' 'ave to gi' it back before it 'ad even warmed up!" But I do seriously recall access to Teletext as a treat once a fortnight when we'd visit my grandparents. I think we'd just about got Ceefax on the main (living room) TV only at our place in time for the 1997 election. Was very much not an early adopter of the information superhighway unlike some one here either, first getting online at home in August of 2001. we had a metre mitre meter |
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Post by john07 on Jul 8, 2024 20:17:37 GMT
I feel a Monty Python sketch coming on here. 🙂 "We used to rent black & white telly fro' pawn shop an' 'ave to gi' it back before it 'ad even warmed up!" But I do seriously recall access to Teletext as a treat once a fortnight when we'd visit my grandparents. I think we'd just about got Ceefax on the main (living room) TV only at our place in time for the 1997 election. Was very much not an early adopter of the information superhighway unlike some one here either, first getting online at home in August of 2001. Watching a football match on Ceefax was an experience. In the pre-internet days it was the only way to follow progress before the late news in mid-week. I do recall following a league cup match between Hearts and Ross County on Ceefax one night. If the wind is in the right direction you can hear from the crowd reaction from our conservatory if a goal has been scored and for who. Every time I detected from the noise that Hearts or Ross County had scored. The pattern of cheers were different for a home or away goal. I would check on Ceefax. I think it ended 1-1 and I was 100% right. Then came the penalty shootout which I called correctly as 3-0 to Hearts. |
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Post by ntyuk1707 on Jul 9, 2024 6:48:45 GMT
Winning Inverness is a great result not only in itself but because it forces us to think about this. Both the Argyll and Aberdeenshire results were passably decent, so hopefully one or both of those could be a new focus. Five of our six now have comfortable majorities, though of course an SNP revival could see that change substantially. So hopefully that gives us a decent chance at making progress elsewhere. Of the other results I think there are only three worth thinking about (i.e. where we got >10%), one of which was a third place, and two of which were fourth, which are precisely as you say.
Argyll, Bute & South Lochaber - 16.4%, 4th, 18.3% behind SNP Gordon & Buchan - 16.7%, 3rd, 16.2% behind Con West Aberdeenshire & Kincardine - 13%, 4th, 23.6% behind Con
If you forced me to pick just one then the most plausible seems to be G&B, it also saw a reasonable (5%) increase in our vote, and we still have a good contingent of councillors in Aberdeenshire. But realistically I wouldn't give up on Argyll either.
All that said, I suppose the next full scale electoral test in Scotland will be the 2026 Holyrood elections, which will be on somewhat different boundaries and with different prospects - perhaps a second seat in Edinburgh will be in play, and multiple highland constituencies.
I'm not convinced about the seats in Aberdeenshire given Conservative strength in the north east of Scotland, however I think the Lib Dems are entering the 2026 Holyrood election from a relatively strong position in Argyll & Bute. The Scottish Parliamentary seat excludes the Helensburgh and Lomond area which is the strongest part of the seat for Labour and the Conservatives. |
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