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| It seems that Tom Harris thinks that YOU should pay for his leaflets, seeing that he can't get any volunteers to deliver them, and Labour has no money for postage. |
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Seems like it would be a waste of money anyway, whoever paid for it... given the somewhat unbelievable figures this morning.
Apparently the 2 non-SNP seats would be, wait for it...
Alistair Carmichael and
Willie Bain. YES, YOU'RE READING THAT RIGHT.
Just imagine, Willie Bain a minister ...? 'Struth!
TNS Scottish poll:
SNP 54% (+2)
Labour 22% (-2)
Con 13% (-)
LD 6% (-)
Seat projection:
SNP 57 (+51)
Lab 1 (-40)
LD 1 (-10)
Con 0
(-1)
Who will try to get the best deal for Scotland at
Westminster?
Sturgeon 42%
Murphy 8%
Cameron 7%
Salmond 6%
Miliband 3%
Don't get too excited though. It won't happen like that. I'd be aiming for 30 seats, which in itself would be a fabulous achievement. Five times what they have at the moment.
But even Jim, so I am told, seems to be aware of his own vulnerability. According to a comment on Wings, he said that he will lead Labour into the General Election here next year, even if he loses his seat.
Wonder how Neil Findlay feels about that...
Aye, Wullie Bain as the last man standing. Puts you in mind of Foinavon in the 1967 Grand National.
ReplyDeleteWell, I had to look that one up, Fergus, but I get your point.
DeleteCan you just imagine The Right Honourable, Her Majesty's Secretary of State for Scotland, Wullie "Anything the SNP proposes is wrong, even if we proposed it too" Bain?
We'd be a laughing stock. He makes Curran look bright.
I wouldn't be too sure about Willie Bain either. At lunchtime I overheard two elderly ladies discussing the election and one said "...and as for Bain, we huvnae seen sight or sound o him fur five years an noo he's the cheek tae ask me tae vote fur him. Naw, yer tea's oot son"
ReplyDeleteHe he he...
DeleteHe's one of the ones that your probably could feel vaguely sorry for.
I mean in that he's unlikely to get another job doing anything. He'll end up being hauled in by the jobcentre and sent to do work experience in Poundland... and he'll not even be any good at that!
Nah, I'm only joking about feeling sorry for him.
If it happens, fine!
Of course these predictions are based on a flat Scotland wide trend (and must have a plus or minus a few points for accuracy), and we vote in very different constituencies, so I guess everything is to play for.
There appears to be a theme going on here I read over the weekend of another two using the same scam. One being Sarwar and I've forgotten the other ones name, according to the report I read, it was all the mail not just one or two where you could say it was an oversight
ReplyDeleteI wonder what the hell they think there is to be gained from costing "hard working families up and down the country" £1.54 for the dubious pleasure of a load of garbage.
DeleteI can't imagine it doing them any good at all. I think I'd be inclined to take it to Labour HQ and ask for the money.
I did read about it somewhere else. I think the Royal Mail must put a card through the door, and you've to arrange to be in, or you have to collect it.
Well at the collection point someone had received his missive and told other people in the queue... Seemingly people refused to accept it. Return to sender...
Hello Tris. Just think of all the fake tan Wee Wullie will be able to buy if he's made SOS For Scotland.
ReplyDeleteJohn H.
Do you get it on expenses, John?
DeleteWell his mentor was Michael Martin, Tris. He wasn't known for holding back when it came to expenses.
ReplyDeleteJohn H.
Says it all. Does that mean he'll join him in the House of the Living Dead?
DeleteThere'll be a wheen of "return to sender" , envelopes of tripe heading back the slabber HQ. ( that'll be in London).
ReplyDeleteOur local candidate, for the soon to be jobless, was knocking doors Saturday morning, never came near my door; I think the YES stickers on my windows, van, Arlene's car and the SNP poster on the door, may have put her off.
Yep. I sent back the one Labour leaflet, delivered by Royal Mail, but fortunately with a stamp, I got.
DeleteIt asked for comments.
So i gave them some.
All polite, but firm.
If the candidate had any real integrity, they would knock on your door and at least try to put up an argument. You might even convert them!
DeleteI think, Cathy Jamieson would be beyond converting but, it would be fun trying.
DeleteHa ha Anon...
DeleteIt's a long time since anyone knocked here at Munguin Towers.
John Brownlie would have a go at converting Cathy,,, but probably not to the SNP!!!
Tris, I am sure that the gist of your comments to the Labour Party could be summarised in two words, the second of which was "off".
DeletePretty much sums it up...
DeleteTris, I am sure that the gist of your comments to the Labour Party could be summarised in two words, the second of which was "off".
Deletetris
ReplyDeleteIntegrity .............good word for politician speak.....means
watch yer wallet
yor only understating the possible snp gains so as you dont get
another broken heart like the referendum.
be interesting to find out how accurate the polling was
I was just wondering where you'd got to Niko. Not 5 minutes ago I was saying to Munguin...where's that old reprobate, Niko?
DeleteAnd he said... Who cares?...
Nah, I'm joking. But he was more concerned with where Taz was.
To be honest, I just can't possibly believe that the SNP will overturn 40 Labour seats, and 10 Liberals ones, and wipe out the Tories.
It's too fantastical for words.
It just doesn't happen like that.
Only ever a couple of seats change hands.
There is no doubt that Murphy was a bad bad choice. Compared to Neil, or Sarah, or even Johann, he's a total plonker. But even that won't wipe Labour out in Scotland. They are too deeply ingrained. I still hear people tell me that they are the party of the working man. I suppose if you call the Duke of Westminster "working", they are!
I also maintain that they are so desperate that there will be a second vow. £5000 for every foodbank was good. It tugs at the heart strings, but the trouble was that London didn't know anything about it, and it's them who would have to find the money...so once again they were caught out.
But I believe they will do something. Maybe promise to ban the DWP in Scotland, or give every hard working family up and down the country £1,000.
Doesn't matter that they can't and won't. It will get them some votes.
Or maybe they are keeping Kate's baby a secret till polling day, and the world will be red white and blue because another little scrounger, I mean prince, has been born, and it's like the most amazing thing ever to happen...
As Private Eye said for the last one: Woman has Baby!
If I'd paid £1.54 for something I didn't want in the first place because the sender was too mean or incompetent to pay the postage, I'd write out an invoice for the £1.54 and send it to them, enclosing the evidence.
ReplyDeleteIn my righteous fury, I would probably forget to put a stamp on the envelope.
LOL Barney...
DeleteThat's the spirit. Righteous fury a great thing :)
Righteous fury?
DeleteArnold Schwarzenegger?
I think I've seen it.
Told you it was a great thing!
DeleteTris
ReplyDeleteI never pay for the mail stuff now, I always let them send it back. Tom Harris is a clown anyway, who wants to read anything he has to say.
Bruce
It's a long time since it happened to me, Bruce, but I doubt I would pay for it now. If it is returned to sender and its important they can always send it on with a stamp on it.
DeleteTom Harris is almost as right wing as Murphy!
I get the impression that Labour isn't even trying in Scotland. They know the gravy train is at an end
ReplyDeleteThey seem to have given up, Panda.
DeleteThere comes a time when there is no point whatsoever in fighting the inevitable.
What we may see in the next week or so is a commitment from Westminster for a remap of the constitutional arrangements of the UK. A Federal solution delivered in the next Westminster Parliament as long as Scotland votes for Labour and LibDems.
ReplyDeleteResult; few SNP MPs, Establishment happy, Lizzy purring, Gravy Trains seats safe. Job done.
Hmmm The Vow II (in which they promise a whole pile more crap they can't possibly deliver, without a revolution in England, even if they wanted to, which they don't)
DeleteFollowed by
The Vow III, with guest appearance of the Clunking Fist from North Britain promising things for food banks and stuff... but not actually speaking to any real people.
The way to get him back ? easy just stick the letter with a freepost address on it to a pishy old mattress and send it back. cheers Tom
ReplyDeleteYou've got a cruel streak, haven't you? :)
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