Friday 13 November 2009

That By-Election Result

The SNP is in serious trouble. In which case, so is David Cameron, who is as dependent as they are on the assumption that the Tartan Tories, the Cameron Highlanders, part of the family, will hold the balance of power in the coming hung Parliament. Not based on this, they won't.

Nick Clegg is in very serious trouble, his candidate's mere 474 votes placing her behind both the BNP and Tommy Sheridan.

And the Labour vote held up (at least sufficiently to keep the seat), the Tory vote pretty much collapsed, and the BNP vote increased. So, can we finally have no more illiterate gibberish about how the BNP vote comes from Labour and is "white working class"? It comes, as Fascist support always has done, from those in such communities who are or would like to consider themselves a cut above, and from, in British terms, Tories in Labour areas. In this case, there will have been an Orange dimension to that, with the mere thousand votes and the lost deposit giving a fascinating insight into just how little Orange vote, as such, Glasgow now has.
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6 comments:

  1. Deo13 November 2009 at 16:47

    What did the Tory vote "pretty much collapse" from?

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  2. David Lindsay13 November 2009 at 17:00

    It collapsed from "Not Much" to "Next To Nothing". In the Seventies, the Tories ran Glasgow City Council. Until 1979, Teddy Taylor was a Glasgow MP.

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  3. Deo13 November 2009 at 17:17

    Sure, but Glasgow is a big city. That's like saying the Tories are big in Kensington, so they should win Southwark.

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  4. David Lindsay13 November 2009 at 17:21

    The Tories did used to win, or at least do well, in all parts of Glasgow. No they can manage only 62 more votes than the deposit-losing BNP.

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  5. Deo13 November 2009 at 17:27

    They used to in the 70s and 80s. When they, er, won general elections as well.

    In 1997, they scored 6% of the vote. In 2001 and 2005 they didn't stand because it was the speakers's seat. Last night they scored 5.2%.

    I say again, how is this a collapse? And how is it remotely relevant to an election win in 2010?

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  6. David Lindsay13 November 2009 at 17:29

    No, it wasn't like that. They ran Glasgow, and indeed had a considerable hold in Scotland, when there were Labour Governments nationally. The decline of the Tories is Scotland is one of the three or four biggest British political stories since the War.

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