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| Independence Day 2: Resturgeonce |
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44 | 21.36% |
| ScotPol - Unclustering this gently caress |
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19 | 9.22% |
| Trainspotting 2: Independence is my heroin |
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9 | 4.37% |
| Indyref II: Boris hosed a Dead Country |
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14 | 6.80% |
| ScotPol: Wings over Bullshit |
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8 | 3.88% |
| Independence 2: Cameron Lied, UK Died |
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24 | 11.65% |
| Scotpol IV: I Vow To Flee My Country |
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14 | 6.80% |
| ScotPol - A twice in a generation thread |
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17 | 8.25% |
| ScotPol - Where Everything's hosed Up and the Referendums Don't Matter |
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15 | 7.28% |
| ScotPol Thread: Dependence Referendum Incoming |
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2 | 0.97% |
| Indyref II: The Scottish Insturgeoncy |
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10 | 4.85% |
| ScotPol Thread: Act of European Union |
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5 | 2.43% |
| ScotPol - Like Game of Thrones only we wish we would all die |
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25 | 12.14% |
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LemonDrizzle posted:you know what's really bad? using a giant pie chart (or donut chart i guess in this case) to present two numbers to be fair, two or three numbers is pretty much the only time when a pie chart is any use at all, though I agree with you re: tiny labels.
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May 1, 2017 13:03
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I love Nicola Sturgeon
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May 2, 2017 17:33
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keep punching joe posted:I love Nicola Sturgeon That photo was taken just up the hill from my flat. drat, and I just posted my last rock to Tory HQ in a Freepost envelope.
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May 2, 2017 17:50
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Ruth Davidson on rape clause: All they do is tick a box For as politically savvy as Ruth Davidson undoubtedly is, she's handling the rape clause stuff horribly.
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May 2, 2017 22:03
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keep punching joe posted:I love Nicola Sturgeon Is the boy on the right playing the circle game?
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May 2, 2017 23:16
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I don't think there really is a way to handle such an evil piece of legislation well.
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May 2, 2017 23:56
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Remember kids, attempted armed robbery is not funny. Banker jailed for ice-cream robbery bidquote:A TSB bank manager who pulled a gun on an ice cream seller, then sent him a Facebook message saying sorry, has been jailed. Is there any background someone could come from that would make getting absolutely smashed then trying, and failing, to rob an ice cream van before sending a bizarre apology via Facebook "expected behaviour"? Niric fucked around with this message at 08:43 on May 3, 2017 |
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May 3, 2017 08:38
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Oh Ayrshire, you never cease to amaze.
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May 3, 2017 09:59
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Who else is pumped up and raring to experience the exciting and highly publicised council elections. I've had precisely two things in the door, and that's counting the Ruth Davidson Party's Totally Not An Election Leaflet, Honest. what else could possibly be distracting people's attention, who can tell
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May 3, 2017 22:47
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I'm mildly annoyed at my other half. We had a knock at the door, on Saturday I think, and weren't expecting anyone. I was in my pjs, but he decided he didn't want to answer it, and I later discovered from the "sorry we missed you" leaflet it was a canvasser. I've never ever been canvassed by a party before  . (I did get canvassed by the Yes campaign, and only answered the door because I thought it was my pizza arriving. Bless the canvassers who had to deal with not being the expected Meateor and resulting crushing disappointment).
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May 4, 2017 00:29
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Lord of the Llamas posted:Oh Ayrshire, you never cease to amaze. It's amazing how much stupid poo poo I've seen there ever since I was born in Ayrshire. Angepain posted:Who else is pumped up and raring to experience the exciting and highly publicised council elections. I've had precisely two things in the door, and that's counting the Ruth Davidson Party's Totally Not An Election Leaflet, Honest. what else could possibly be distracting people's attention, who can tell My Ballet was two Indepedents, two SNP, one Tory, one Labour, one Green and one Scottish Libertarian. I only voted for two of the candidates.
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May 4, 2017 13:07
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Dammit people put a vote down for every candidate and put the Tories last.
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May 4, 2017 13:08
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Coohoolin posted:Dammit people put a vote down for every candidate and put the Tories last. I was rushing and didn't have enough time to fully complete the ballet before I realised. I was needed in some important stuff and only slammed my face when I realised the mistake I made. Oh well. At the least I voted for who I wanted to vote for. Not assholes.
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May 4, 2017 13:11
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I wish all councillors were elected by ballet
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May 4, 2017 13:15
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Why do they pronounce it Ballet here? Just loving confusing.
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May 4, 2017 13:15
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One of my uni pals who is running as a Greens candidate just posted on my fb to say it was actually fine not to vote for the Tories instead of putting them last. Argh.
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May 4, 2017 13:18
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Coohoolin posted:One of my uni pals who is running as a Greens candidate just posted on my fb to say it was actually fine not to vote for the Tories instead of putting them last. Argh. If you put a preference for all the others it's not going to make any significant difference. Does it even make a difference at all? If there's only one candidate remaining in the xth round they're getting in regardless. Angepain fucked around with this message at 13:27 on May 4, 2017 |
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May 4, 2017 13:25
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Angepain posted:If you put a preference for all the others it's not going to make any significant difference. Does it even make a difference at all? If there's only one candidate remaining in the xth round they're getting in regardless. It reduces the effective threshold in later rounds of transfers but its not the be all and end all, if your stacking your ballot with an early transfer to a candidate in good standing to take a seat and its unlikely your vote will transfer further its not going to have an impact You'd have to front stack the candidates most likely to be eliminated first or be elected with a comfortable surplus but its very unlikely your vote will still be in play in the last round for your bottom preferences to have a play
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May 4, 2017 13:31
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Coohoolin posted:Dammit people put a vote down for every candidate and put the Tories last. this makes as much sense as 'both votes SNP'
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May 4, 2017 13:49
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Coohoolin posted:Dammit people put a vote down for every candidate and put the Tories last. No. This is not how STV works. Two slots will go to the SNP, 1 will go to the Liberals, not putting your 8th option as Tory will make no loving difference here. Also, the Tory candidate is not even the worst candidate in this ward so if I was going to do that, the Tories wouldn't get my last vote. But instead I will not vote for either the Tory nor the ultra-British nationalist Daily Mail independent candidate.
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May 4, 2017 13:54
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We've just had the SNP at the door checking if we've voted. Isn't that normally something parties only to do their very strong supporters? (like, people they give poll cards do and then they go chap doors of those who haven't handed their card in to the party hack at the polling station)
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May 4, 2017 18:17
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Acaila posted:We've just had the SNP at the door checking if we've voted. Isn't that normally something parties only to do their very strong supporters? (like, people they give poll cards do and then they go chap doors of those who haven't handed their card in to the party hack at the polling station) They election day canvas based on Yes campaign data to target people who ranked independence highly on the scale, with the presumption that they will probably either vote SNP or Green.
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May 4, 2017 18:38
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That's what my Nat friend suggested, but I wasn't even in the same council area for the indyref! (and actually, now I think about it, I never got canvassed for the indyref at my old address, because anytime canvassing happened round my way I was out involved in it, only to come back to a "sorry we missed you!" leaflet). Don't think my old address was associated with anything, and certainly not this one.
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May 4, 2017 19:37
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maybe the people living there before you were raving hypernats?
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May 4, 2017 21:41
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Ive seen this a few times recently, what exactly is a 'yoon' in the parlance of a Nat?
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May 4, 2017 22:34
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Aramoro posted:Ive seen this a few times recently, what exactly is a 'yoon' in the parlance of a Nat? Unionist. Ie Yoonist.
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May 4, 2017 22:39
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edit: this used to be a post saying how silly it was that RISE stopped existing when the council elections would in theory be easier to get a foothold in than Holyrood was, but turns out they do in fact have a candidate (a single candidate) in Motherwell and are backing an independent in Glasgow, so at least they're trying I guess.
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May 5, 2017 01:23
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Unlike everyone else. Four candidates in my ward and three get elected, because nobody but the main UK parties who stand everywhere want to waste money against the SNP juggernaut.
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May 5, 2017 08:13
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7 folk stood in my ward, 2 each of Labour and SNP, and 1 each of Tory, LibDem and Green. The three seats will almost certainly go to some combination of Labour and SNP only.
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May 5, 2017 08:33
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Jedit posted:Unlike everyone else. Four candidates in my ward and three get elected, because nobody but the main UK parties who stand everywhere want to waste money against the SNP juggernaut. 8 candidates here, the usual 5 plus an extra SNP and 2 independents. But then there was a ward in Argyll which managed 3 candidates for 3 seats so... Since someone was talking about RISE earlier, I noticed the SSP had some candidates. So has their coalition with RISE just been binned? Socialists are pretty dumb. forkboy84 fucked around with this message at 09:38 on May 5, 2017 |
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May 5, 2017 09:28
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Here we had ten candidates, 2 SNP, a Green, a Conservative and 6 Independents. No Labour people - or I think maybe one of the Independents used to be a Labour person? Argyll and Bute council is a shitshow though.
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May 5, 2017 09:34
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My partner is standing in a ward. There's 2 SNP candidates, 1 Labour, 1 Tory, and 3 who are basically independents, though 2 are going under minor party names.
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May 5, 2017 09:43
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Which ward? At a count right now. Stressful and boring all at once.
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May 5, 2017 10:08
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Autonomous Monster posted:Which ward? Don't doxx me.
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May 5, 2017 10:11
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Orkney results are in, they've gone from 21 independent councillors to 20 independents and 1 green. Um, probably not much use for predicting the other councils. Turnout was apparently down slightly from last time though, which doesn't bode well.
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May 5, 2017 11:13
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Angepain posted:Orkney results are in, they've gone from 21 independent councillors to 20 independents and 1 green. Um, probably not much use for predicting the other councils. On the other hand, Green on Orkney is cool Highland has it's first result, Inverness Ness-side has returned a Liberal & SNP on the first round, & a Tory in the 4th. Previously there were 1 each from SNP, Lib, Lab & an independent, but there's been boundary rejigging and some place (all? I'm not sure) are returning 3 instead of 4 councillors. forkboy84 fucked around with this message at 11:33 on May 5, 2017 |
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May 5, 2017 11:28
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Early results suggest the Tories are doing well above the upper end of expectations around Scotland. Taking seats from both the SNP and Labour, with transfers from Labour voters really helping the Tories out in certain places.
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May 5, 2017 11:32
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Leggsy posted:Early results suggest the Tories are doing well above the upper end of expectations around Scotland. Taking seats from both the SNP and Labour, with transfers from Labour voters really helping the Tories out in certain places. that'll stop those snp councillors from declaring an independence referendum, noted power of local councils, good job Labour voters
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May 5, 2017 11:35
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The real fun will begin when we see a bunch of Conservative/Labour coalitions in order to keep the SNP out. Will really help the vote share I feel.
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May 5, 2017 11:35
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And more in me wasting all your time with the results from the Highlands, Cromarty Firth returned an independent in the 1st round, SNP in the 2nd, & then SNP & independent in the 8th. Must have been close there. They previously had 2 independents, 1 SNP & 1 Lib. Aird & Loch Ness has gone with 2 independents, 1 SNP & 1 Tory, from 2 independents, 1 SNP & 1 Liberal. So that's 2 Tory gains so far.
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May 5, 2017 11:40
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