Scottish local government elections May 4th 2017

[danny la rouge]

This is where the BBC will upload the results:

Scotland local elections 2017 - BBC News

 

[Celyn]

Nah, the jobby was a man. I I was trying to be funny by using a mild insult.

Oops. Silly me . But really, weird things do happen. No "burly blokes" though?

 

[danny la rouge]

 

[JTG]

Green surge in Orkney!

 

[danny la rouge]

Results in for my ward:

We have four councillors. It used to be one Tory, one SNP, one Labour, one Green. Now it's two Tories, one SNP and one Green.

So it does look like the Unionist vote is consolidating around the Tories and deserting Labour. So the Tory strategy has worked here at least.

 

[danny la rouge]

Being reported that Labour have lost overall control of Glasgow, whatever the final result. SNP expected to gain control, but maybe as minority administration.

 

[JTG]

Results in for my ward:

We have four councillors. It used to be one Tory, one SNP, one Labour, one Green. Now it's two Tories, one SNP and one Green.

So it does look like the Unionist vote is consolidating around the Tories and deserting Labour. So the Tory strategy has worked here at least.

That seems to be borne out by the small handful of results I've seen reported on Twitter - a Labour cllr disappearing to be replaced by a Tory

 

[JTG]

 

[chilango]

Gosh

 

[heinous seamus]

"The Scottish Conservatives have gained in some of the city's most deprived areas."

 

[JTG]

"The Scottish Conservatives have gained in some of the city's most deprived areas."

Unionist/Loyalist/Rangers vote has fucked off at last

 

[JTG]

The Rubbish Party has gained a seat on East Ayrshire council

Please do feel free to insert your own punchline here

 

[cathal marcs]

Jesus wept! The Tories get a seat in Shettleston one of the most deprived areas of Europe. Do these people want to lose the NHS, benefits, council housing etc? I suppose the Unionists can keep their vile union jack and blame it all on Johnny Foreigner.

If any semblance of social democracy is to survive in Scotland, Labour need to ditch their hostility towards independence pandering to the most reactionary Unionist/Loyalist vote as it is deserting Labour and consolidating around the Tories.

 

[JTG]

Nats/Tories up in Aberdeen, everyone else down

 

[danny la rouge]

Stirling council now SNP/Con tied council.
SNP: 9
Con: 9
Lab: 4
Green: 1

Labour could go back into coalition with the Tories as the junior partner this time.

 

[editor]

"The Scottish Conservatives have gained in some of the city's most deprived areas."

It's beyond depressing. What the fuck is happening.

 

[danny la rouge]

That seems a pretty clear picture.

 

[danny la rouge]

It's beyond depressing. What the fuck is happening.

The Unionist vote is deserting Labour and going to the Tories.

 

[Sue]

It's beyond depressing. What the fuck is happening.

Unionist, anti-Indyref2, tactical voting and STV I guess.

 

[danny la rouge]

Reports that Labour and Tories getting each other's second preference votes.

The number of Labour and Tory councillors on Stirling council has swapped. Labour's losses are the Tories gains. This seems on first glance to be pretty much the case everywhere else I've looked too.

Looks like the Tory campaign worked.

 

[angusmcfangus]

The full national picture is expected to become clearer later on Friday afternoon, but the Conservatives have been winning seats in areas which had previously been "no-go" for them - including Shettleston in Glasgow and Ferguslie Park in Renfrewshire.
I swear the world's gone mad how in the name of fuck can the tories win in areas like this.
Feeling sad...

 

[danny la rouge]

The full national picture is expected to become clearer later on Friday afternoon, but the Conservatives have been winning seats in areas which had previously been "no-go" for them - including Shettleston in Glasgow and Ferguslie Park in Renfrewshire.
I swear the world's gone mad how in the name of fuck can the tories win in areas like this.
Feeling sad...

Shettleston Ward has a large middle class area, Mount Vernon.

 

[angusmcfangus]

Shettleston Ward has a large middle class area, Mount Vernon.

Aye Danny, but ferguslie park disnae.

 

[danny la rouge]

Aye Danny, but ferguslie park disnae.

True. (My granny lived in Foxbar. I'd spend my summers there as a kid).

 

[danny la rouge]

 

[angusmcfangus]

True. (My granny lived in Foxbar. I'd spend my summers there as a kid).

I grew up in the foxbar high flats.
Perhaps we kicked a baw together or met fishing up the brandy burn.

 

[teuchter]

If any semblance of social democracy is to survive in Scotland, Labour need to ditch their hostility towards independence pandering to the most reactionary Unionist/Loyalist vote as it is deserting Labour and consolidating around the Tories.

I don't understand this sentence. You are saying Labour should ditch hostilty towards independence, because they need to stop losing unionist voters?

 

[danny la rouge]

I grew up in the foxbar high flats.
Perhaps we kicked a baw together or met fishing up the brandy burn.

If it was the 70s, maybe. I used to go up the Brandy Burn! Would also walk to the Elderslie baths!

 

[angusmcfangus]

If it was the 70s, maybe. I used to go up the Brandy Burn! Would also walk to the Elderslie baths!

Was in the 70s. My dad worked in the Elderslie carpet fields.
Did you get as far Up as the seven falls or smoke a joint in the carpark in the Sky!

 

[danny la rouge]

There's a "car park in the sky" in Stirling too, so I'm not sure about that. But I remember the falls.

We used to walk right along Foxbar Road into Paisley, to save the bus fare, and go to a record shop I've been struggling to remember the name of. I keep thinking it was called Listen, but that feels wrong because there was one called Listen in Glasgow too.

I was in Foxbar the day I heard Elvis died. It was on the radio, and my granny's second husband came into the room saying "ha ha, Elvis was a fat junkie!"

Sorry for the derail!