Labour wins Glasgow North East ...
 

... is a bit like saying the Pope's a Catholic, but they were a bit worried for a while up here. They needn't have been, the Labour candidate saw off the SNP with an 8,000 majority.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/...st/8355282.stm

This will make the general election more interesting in Scotland. Everyone has been expecting a big showing for the SNP which a future Tory Government, reliant on wins in English constituencies, would have to deal with carefully. Maybe it won't happen like that, who knows.

One thing I do know, for a few moments that smug grin will have been knocked off Alex Salmond's face, and for that we must be grateful. :D

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And the BNP were getting uncomfortably close to the Tories.

Still the Lib Dems were way, way down the list which is always nice.

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Brian Taylor's blog is always entertaining on occasions like this. There's a hard-core of SNP zealots who patrol his postings, adding mouth-foaming nationalist commentary to everything he says. At the moment they are painting this as evidence of massive electoral fraud but a good night for the SNP nonetheless. Aww, bless.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/thereport...yelection.html

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If they had 8000+ new postal voters then maybe. As it was even if every single postal vote was fraudulent then they still won comfortably.

Amazed the Tories got 3rd place. For that part of Glasgow I'd normally expect them to be somewhere below the lunatic independants.

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I thought you meant in policy terms for a moment there. Tchah.

On an appallingly low turnout (8000 less than 2005 with the three main parties standing this time). The Tories have never contested this seat before, so we've no idea how many is a good score for them in the area.

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Any vote for the Tories in Glasgow is a success. Many believe that this is the only Tory voter in Glasgow:

https://www.cableforum.co.uk/images/...2009/11/64.jpg

... and he only did it because he felt sorry for the candidate. :D

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It's a bit sad that the fascists got four times as many votes as John Smeaton though.

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The British Nazi Party has always been uncomfortably close to the Tories, on many levels.

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A real pity, especially as Smeato got a good chunk of media coverage around here. However that's not unexpected in our system, where you have either to be identified with a party or with a very strong local issue to stand any chance of being elected. John Smeaton is just an all-round good bloke, but unfortunately these days being a good all-round bloke isn't high on the checklist for potential MPs. Truly, the people get the government they deserve.

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Labour actually increased its share of the vote. The Tories weren't expecting that, I'd wager.

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I doubt the Tories had much expectation at all, as they are quite irrelevant in Glasgow. The SNP certainly weren't expecting it though.

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Oh of course they have. And the Labour party has been uncomfortably close to the Communist Party:rolleyes:

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Don't see many Communists fervently supporting neo-liberal laissez-faire economics or invading Iraq or occupying Afghanistan...

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No because they had already tried that

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Perhaps a bit more listening to Communists might have told Blair and Brown that it wasn't the greatest place to try and occupy?

Actually, there's the obvious thing here - Conservative grassroots people are far closer to the BNP in outlook than the party leadership and likewise grassroots Labour people are closer to communism, in the sense that they're more likely to support things like state ownership of railways, banks, social equality etc.

I'd stick me neck out and say the gap is closer on the Tory side, though. Go and look at the green ink brigade in the comments at ConservativeHome.