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The battle for Glasgow North East

From George Galloway to the BNP, John Harris talks to the many players in this week's Scottish by-election

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree ... byelection

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the BNP will be sent packing
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I fookin' hope so!
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we did the right thing
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just :lol:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2009 ... north-east

Boost for Brown as Labour takes big victory in Glasgow vote

• SNP suffers second defeat in three byelections
• Protest vote blamed as BNP takes fourth place
• Labour candidate Willie Bain captured 59.4% of the vote
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Quite a majority! I'm vaguely surprised.

And how annoying was the Tory candidate in that video? You can tell she'll be really successful one day though. :(
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I would imagine the SNP have taken a battering recently. With the "Arc of Prosperity" and Scotland's big banks bankrupt, the independence thrust of their argument must look damned unattractive right now. Add to that a dash of 70's style Socialism and a very smart, but rather oily leader..

But what was "the right thing" in peoples minds? Labour lose and hopefully Brown quits/is forced to call an election? He won't. Although I begin to seriously pity the man in many ways (The Sun really are sinking f*cking low now. A near-blind man writes a handwritten letter and you criticise the spelling?? He doesn't bow "low enough" for your liking?), he's not going to concede failure out of pride. I begin to think if he wasn't such a rotten PM, I'd have a lot of respect for him as a person.

BNP: Is anyone surprised any more? The same constitution and voting fascist. I feel so European..
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Yeah I like Brown as person too and think he really does know his stuff, but as a PM he really leaves a lot to be desired. :(
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I rather dislike 'tory gurl', oh yes I'm sure she'll go far
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DeWinter wrote:(The Sun really are sinking f*cking low now. A near-blind man writes a handwritten letter and you criticise the spelling?? He doesn't bow "low enough" for your liking?)
Well said.

A digression about the "journalistic integrity" of the Murdoch rags might be called for, but I'd be here all week :lol:
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i'd just like to say that if it were me, i'd actually be quite touched to receive a hand written letter from the PM, even if written in a hurry, because it showed he took the time. which he probably has very little of.
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emilystrange wrote:i'd just like to say that if it were me, i'd actually be quite touched to receive a hand written letter from the PM, even if written in a hurry, because it showed he took the time. which he probably has very little of.
i completely agree but am still confused how the letter got sent without one of his staff proofing or checking it first!

at the end of the day it's a communique from the prime minister in an official capacity and those kind of sloppy mistakes (blindness and time notwithstanding) should have been picked up by someone there... :urff:
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yes, true. but does that not make it even more of a personal missive?
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i guess, but it still feels like an easily avoided faux pas :|
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Quiff Boy wrote:i completely agree but am still confused how the letter got sent without one of his staff proofing or checking it first!

at the end of the day it's a communique from the prime minister in an official capacity and those kind of sloppy mistakes (blindness and time notwithstanding) should have been picked up by someone there... :urff:
What!?! A letter from him :eek: :wink: ;D
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James Blast wrote:the BNP will be sent packing
I wish :evil: They came 4th out of around 14 candidates - only just behind the tories and getting over 3 times as many votes as the greens. Even taking into consideration the amount of non-contenders in this election, I find that a shocking but not surprising result. North East Glasgow has a high non-white population and more than enough angry arseholes to give the BNP a foothold.
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Look on the bright side Andrew, they lost their deposit and with voter apathy running high and an extremely split left-wing vote it hopefully bodes well for the future, also face it - the groundswell feels that we are Scottish not British.

I do wish more people would get off their lardy asses and vote, I have raved on in threads passim about how it's a right that had to be fought for. Take the vote away and see what happens, as long as it's announced on Tricia.
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James Blast wrote:Look on the bright side Andrew, they lost their deposit and with voter apathy running high and an extremely split left-wing vote it hopefully bodes well for the future, also face it - the groundswell feels that we are Scottish not British.
True.
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James Blast wrote: I do wish more people would get off their lardy asses and vote, I have raved on in threads passim about how it's a right that had to be fought for. Take the vote away and see what happens,
Not getting involved in the politics on this thread but that statement Mr. Blast is a wish that I also wish for, not only in Scotland but all over the world!
Take any vote away and we go back instead of going forward!

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it's a right not a privilege and people died to make it this way

as Jon Rotten said on So It Goes
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I kick everyone all over the world to vote when they have to.

My own mum let it slip this year as she didn't want to get off her arse!
I reminded her that my grandfather fought for her to have that right too.

And I still can't vote in this country to this day because of my passport being foreign although I have all the same rights next to the common Dutchman. :roll:
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I thought the BNP would have done better in the land of the weegie.....................it's about all most weegies can spell :twisted: :innocent:
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scotty wrote:I thought the BNP would have done better in the land of the weegie.....................it's about all most weegies can spell :twisted: :innocent:
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