tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post5795836681137301424..comments2023-12-20T19:39:29.865+00:00Comments on Munguin's Republic: British general elections are scheduled for May, but the real race in Scotland is between Labour and the Scottish Nationalists.Munguinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16475165830302054002noreply@blogger.comBlogger17125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post-57867644507945256112010-04-11T12:25:29.901+01:002010-04-11T12:25:29.901+01:00Hey Conan,
Sorry I bought the Telegraph today fo...Hey Conan, <br /><br />Sorry I bought the Telegraph today for the poll they had on its front cover,and the Cameron declaration of his intent to rule as a One Nation Tory. Anything juicy in the Sunday Post?Dean MacKinnon-Thomsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08221192592535723681noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post-26351702312944407232010-04-11T11:41:20.954+01:002010-04-11T11:41:20.954+01:00Munguin: I too do Yougov surveys. The start off be...Munguin: I too do Yougov surveys. The start off being inaccurate because they use people who voluteer to do the surveys for money or prizes; so as you say they have an idea of who they are sending the survey to. <br /><br />Random they cannot claim to be. <br /><br />Secondly they are limited by the fact that they are online (as far as I know, exclusively). The miss out a huge section of the population which have no access to the internet.<br /><br />I agree too about the sales pitch that they have to use, although clearly they must conform to an industry standard.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post-3568285226434799962010-04-11T11:36:38.579+01:002010-04-11T11:36:38.579+01:00Aye Bugger, they are wriggling to get out of it, b...Aye Bugger, they are wriggling to get out of it, but I bet they used confidential information. Scumbags.<br /><br />The English health department appears to have scrambled up the donor register too. Lord, I hope that's not a UK wide thing run from London. Burnham is embarrassingly hopeless.<br /><br />Thank heavens for Nicola Sturgeon and NHS Scotland.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post-74953690466060942122010-04-11T11:33:26.044+01:002010-04-11T11:33:26.044+01:00Hello Conan. Long time no see. What's in the S...Hello Conan. Long time no see. What's in the Sunday Post, apart from Oor Willie?<br /><br />Don't tell me they spalshed out for a poll? It'll be the janitor asking half a dozen on the street outside the office if they have!!!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post-25949840797128539302010-04-11T11:30:45.211+01:002010-04-11T11:30:45.211+01:00Anon: Yes, there are some inaccuracies in the arti...Anon: Yes, there are some inaccuracies in the article but it is an article published in an up and coming international news source and as such worth looking at. It’s an outside view.<br /><br />The vote went, as all votes went, at that time in a house of parliament that was made up of chiefs and nobles. They voted what was best for them. Plus ça change, plus c’est la meme chose!<br /><br />The country was broke due to injudicious investments and being a member of the British empire was initially of huge help financially, You can’t argue with that. After a short time the reverse was the truth, although some people made a fortune. Plus ça change.....<br /><br />In the third point you are completely correct. It was indeed the Council of Europe that gave us devolution. Blair made sure that it was a badly thought out version (plus ça change....)<br /><br />I did point out that it was an article from another source, that I didn’t write it. I appreciate you taking the time to point out the inaccuracies... but is there any need to be so unpleasant about it? Capital letter and ‘FFS’.... !!! Come on Anon.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post-77186779790699400142010-04-11T09:52:05.918+01:002010-04-11T09:52:05.918+01:00Instead of looking at polls might I suggest we con...Instead of looking at polls might I suggest we consider what the grass roots are doing. For that I would direct your attention to the best Labour blog in Scotland that of Kezia Dugdale, office assistant to the haberdasher in chief The Baron Foulkes of Cumnock in the county of Shropshire. Ms Dugdale seems to have a passion for attacking the SNP despite the fact that they are supposed to be irrelevant in Scotland. When she does I always ask her why she is doing that when her leaders, of the clique in Holyrood and the big chief in Dover House say that the Tories are the real opposition. And now of course they have their fab new poster showing things as a two horse race. Strangely she has never answered. She I have no doubt would say I am an SNP crank not worth answering. But that is a bit disingenuous when you are supposed to be writing the best of something. I think the real answer is that she can’t give a proper answer because it’s not true. It is simply a bit of political sophistry designed to pull the wool over the eyes of the gullible.Munguinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16475165830302054002noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post-25788068803625610402010-04-11T09:34:47.743+01:002010-04-11T09:34:47.743+01:00I’m always doubtful of snap polls produced by the ...I’m always doubtful of snap polls produced by the likes of YouGov for newspapers. I myself do the polls for YouGov by e-mail and am well aware of how biased the brief can be from the commissioning organisation. And am also well aware that they know what my answers will be before they come to me and so they weight their poll appropriately. Obviously if I am the Tory supporting Sun newspaper I do not want a poll that says the Tories are irrelevant do I? And if I am YouGov I don’t want to give the Sun too many polls like that, that won’t sell copies of the Sun do I or I would find my business drying up very quickly.Munguinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16475165830302054002noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post-1333538797427664082010-04-11T09:19:28.047+01:002010-04-11T09:19:28.047+01:00however, until 1707 when Scotland, which was broke...however, until 1707 when Scotland, which was broke at the time, agreed to dissolve its own parliament and become one with the Parliament in London.<br /><br />OH REALY???? TELL ME AGAIN HOW DID THAT VOTE GO.<br /><br />the union “transformed Scotland from a third world country into a modern society and opened up a cultural and social revolution,<br /><br />SO WE WOULD STILL TO THIS DAY BE RUNNING ABOUT THE HILLS WITH HEATHER STICKING OUT OF OUR ARSE IF IT HAD NOT BEEN FOR THE ENGLISH. FFS GET A GRIP !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!<br /><br />It was Tony Blair’s Labour Party that decided, after three centuries, to devolve a measure of power back to Scotland.<br /><br />AYE EFFIN RIGHT, COUNCIL OF EUROPE ETC ETC. !!!<br />UNIONISTS GIVING ANYTHING BACK TO SCOTLAND. GIE ME A BREAK THEY UTTERLY LOATH THE SCOTS, BROWN IN PARTICULARAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post-16130604968359181792010-04-11T07:26:34.125+01:002010-04-11T07:26:34.125+01:00Just when you think that this Labour Lot couldn...Just when you think that this Labour Lot couldn't get any lower this comes along.<br /><br />Words fail me.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post-92118659088144100562010-04-11T04:15:31.117+01:002010-04-11T04:15:31.117+01:00Don't you read the Sunday Post Dean?Don't you read the Sunday Post Dean?Conan the Librarian™https://www.blogger.com/profile/01904339261121451779noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post-35747638623562732332010-04-11T01:03:25.834+01:002010-04-11T01:03:25.834+01:00Yes it's sad tris . Labour are truly revolting...Yes it's sad tris . Labour are truly revolting.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post-26425689302126332922010-04-11T00:59:29.869+01:002010-04-11T00:59:29.869+01:00Anon: I've just read the article. It's the...Anon: I've just read the article. It's the lead story. Thanks for the heads up. I'm uncertain that I'm awake and that this isn't a dream.<br /><br />How could they do that?<br /><br />I repeat sickening.... yeuchhAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post-81723656829186634472010-04-11T00:48:31.603+01:002010-04-11T00:48:31.603+01:00Ouch.... that beats anything they have done so far...Ouch.... that beats anything they have done so far.<br /><br />Sickening.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post-50075819735361469532010-04-11T00:46:05.227+01:002010-04-11T00:46:05.227+01:00Labours new postcard campaign is a surefire vote w...Labours new postcard campaign is a surefire vote winner( not). They stole peoples medical records and sent 250,000 postcards to NHS cancer patients warning them that they could die under the Tories. " A card was sent to a woman who has died of breast cancer." reported The Sunday Times.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post-47003378925404781792010-04-11T00:16:59.859+01:002010-04-11T00:16:59.859+01:00It must be Labour's fault for saying you guys ...It must be Labour's fault for saying you guys are the opposition Dean....<br /><br />Some people are so angry with Brown and hate him so badly that they will vote the way he begs them not to....<br /><br />I'll be listening out on polling night for the Perth vote.... remember there's some weirdo right wing independent blokey standing up there. That will take a few away from you, don't you think?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post-78927177074599470832010-04-11T00:11:38.408+01:002010-04-11T00:11:38.408+01:00Oh and also, the SNP have in recent polls come onl...Oh and also, the SNP have in recent polls come only barely ahead of the Tories in Scottish polls... lets not have such short memories!<br /><br />I quote directly from Electoral Calculus files:<br /><br />Scottish Sun/YouGov 17 Feb 10 - 24 Feb 10 667- SNP 20%, Scots Tories-19%<br /><br />Scotland on Sunday/YouGov 24 Feb 10 - 26 Feb 10 1,002 Scots- Tories-20 SNP-21 <br /><br />I shall continue:<br /><br />The Scotsman/YouGov 24 Feb 10 - 26 Feb 10 1,002 Scots Tories-20 SNP- 24 [even here the SNP are, if we also acknowledge the historic trend of Scots Polling to underestimate Tory strength in Scotland, are catchable even here.]<br /><br />My point, simply put, the SNP are barely keeping ahead of a resurgent Scottish Toryism. This British GE seems to see the SNP struggling for relevence.Dean MacKinnon-Thomsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08221192592535723681noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post-80426415543979913362010-04-11T00:06:38.314+01:002010-04-11T00:06:38.314+01:00The Conservatives have not been this strong in Sco...The Conservatives have not been this strong in Scotland since 1992!<br /><br />We have an average of 18.2% [electoral calculus figures], and often manage to push up to 20-21%. I rather say that this is a large improvement on the dark days of 12% in 1997, or even the pathetic 15% of 2005!<br /><br />Plus, I stake my repute as a gambling man on this, the Scottish Tories shall gain 7+ seats from Scotland on the night. <br /><br />Watch this space, and as for the SNP...they better look out in Perth and Angus!Dean MacKinnon-Thomsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08221192592535723681noreply@blogger.com