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With a reported disagreement at the very top of the SNP the very real possibility exists of Alex Salmond becoming leader for the third time. Especially if, as expected the party loses potentially 9 seats to the Tories.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics...ependence-vote
This is the same pish you tried to get me to read on the last thread.
Personally I prefer AS to NS as I prefer his straight-talking bravado-laden rhetoric to her more cautious let's-please-everybody tippy-toe approach but I realise I'm in the minority in that and that AS does not play well to the female vote especially.
Plus AS needs to win his own Consituency first and foremost - that whole area is natural Tory/Lib territory and the SNP have played a blinder over the years to keep the likes of Moray, Gordon, and Banff & Buchan in their hands, firstly through Winnie Ewing and latterly AS and Angus Robertson.
I suspect that AS will be returned (interesting fact is that AS as a candidate has NEVER lost an election and that's across multiple constituencies and two Parliaments) but I'm a little nervous about Angus Robertson. His consituency returned the highest NO vote in 2014 and IF the Tories can scoop that up rather than it being dissipated amongst 3 parties then he could be in difficulty.
But the idea that by winning 50 of the 59 Scottish consiruencies, NS would be under pressure is just so ludicrous that I'd advise you to quit smoking/drinking/injecting whatever substances youre clearly abusing.
Sheer mischief-making by Arsenal, but of course that's why he posted it
:D
Bump. Because the voters must know the truth.
Except you wouldn't know the truth if it bit you on the arse
To answer my own question. Now that the voters have seen through him...NO, he won't.
What happened in Alex Salmond's seat was that 15,000 Liberal voters directly prostituted themselves to the Tories in order to scupper the SNP
Of course the Liberals have form in such shenanigans - they would boil their grannies down for glue if they thought there was something in it for them. Political whores of the highest order.
You have not heard the last of AS, of that you may be sure.
Since we're quoting statistics:Quote:
Originally Posted by scottish-guy
The Conservatives were/are the largest party before/after the 2017 election and lost 13 seats or ~4% of their seats
The SNP were/are the third-largest party before/after the 2017 election and lost 21 seats or ~18% of their seats
Imagine the fallout if the Conservatives had lost 18% of their seats! Clearly a triumph for La Sturgeon (not) :crazy_mini:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United...election,_2017Because?Quote:
Originally Posted by scottish-guy
....Because the entire Unionist focus in Gordon was on ousting AS.
The Lib Dems colluded with the Tories by putting up a paper candidate in Gordon and doing no campaigning. Add to that the bizarre spectacle of the Labour Party leader in Scotland urging Labour voters to vote Tory where it would unseat SNP MPs.
It clearly worked and the people of Gordon now have a useless inexperienced 3 job part-time nobody of a Tory MP "representing" them.
That's their choice and hell mend them for it. Likewise in Moray where the Tories will (as part of the Brexit negotiations) proceed to fuck the fishing communities over yet again. These short-sighted bampots have made their beds and can lie in them as far as I'm concerned.
The only mystery is why it interests you so much - and (more so) why it interests Arsenal so much that he is posting on it in FIVE threads concurrently.
Yes Scottish. They did all that and perhaps plenty more in other parts of Scotland. Why? Because they don't want another referendum, that's why. Fact.
I agree with you about Alex Salmond. He'll be back.
It was, of course, nearly 40% of seats the Nats lost, not 18% (I must have been studying SNP Mathematics at the time I wrote that)