2016 Holyrood Election Thread: polling, coverage, issues.

[danny la rouge]

Lol. Journos at count:

 

[The Boy]

Can someone just hurry the fuck up and declare. I need to go to bed.

Awesome bit of Orkney accent, though

 

[danny la rouge]

 

[danny la rouge]

Can someone just hurry the fuck up and declare. I need to go to bed.

Awesome bit of Orkney accent, though

 

[Sue]

Result on telly now. Well it was about to be anyway.

 

[The Boy]

Yadda, yadda. I want numbers, dammit.

 

[The Boy]

Rutherglen ain't no Sunderland. Over-promised and under-delivered

 

[gosub]

As opposed to the well thought out strategy of supporting the Tories in the referendum, that wasn't a self-inflicted wound at all.

Down south so can't see it, but the wound on that was more "we shall be monitoring facebook, endorse yes at your peril". Dragging a load of luvies up to gig who all told the faithful who bothered turned up they'd have voted yes, whilst Dugdale's attitude has been you had your referendum, we won get over it. How to build scar tissue.

 

[gosub]

Yadda, yadda. I want numbers, dammit.

You playing numberwang? Its as expected. On a decent turnout/

 

[The Boy]

Stop talking over my numbers you cunt

 

[Sue]

Lib Dems hold Orkney. Very comfortably too.

 

[The Boy]

Lib dems hold Orkney comfortably

 

[The Boy]

LD +32%

 

[Sue]

LD +32%

Ffs.

 

[The Boy]

Ffs.

Also reported to be doing well in my old stomping ground in Edinburgh Western

 

[redsquirrel]

Liberal vermin, fucking hang them

 

[danny la rouge]

 

[Sue]

Rutherglen ain't no Sunderland. Over-promised and under-delivered

SNP gain, 9% swing. Loved that the returning officer forgot to give the Tory's result.

 

[The Boy]

Rutherglen SNP gain

 

[danny la rouge]

 

[danny la rouge]

Mid Scotland and Fife (my electoral region) -

 

[danny la rouge]

 

[danny la rouge]

Let's remember that under the Holyrood electoral system, a majority government is an anomaly. It was remarkable that the SNP managed one last time.

 

[danny la rouge]

 

[Frankie Jack]

Jackie Baillie... Maj 109.

 

[danny la rouge]

 

[danny la rouge]

 

[danny la rouge]

SNP would need 65 for a majority. So it looks like they'll need the Greens.

 

[Bernie Gunther]

So what's the story on the huge pasting Labour took in Scotland this time around?

Are Scottish Labour seen as Blairites or hopelessly crooked or something?

 

[danny la rouge]

So what's the story on the huge pasting Labour took in Scotland this time around?

Are Scottish Labour seen as Blairites or hopelessly crooked or something?

They're seen as useless, remote, and indifferent: the corrupt old-guard who were given 90 years and did nothing but garner a sense of patronising entitlement.