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scot47 · Joined: 10 Jan 2003 Posts: 15343

I just cast my vote. No one here in Scotland is very excited about choosing new MEPs. Media is obsessed with the vile ex-stockbroker Farrage, whose strength seems to be in England.

Looney right candidates abound. Hardly anyone on the Left. For aging hippies, and Bolshies like me, we have to take our pick - SNP or Greens.

Otterman Ollie · Posted: Fri May 23, 2014 12:19 pm Post subject:

I think you mean UKIP, right? I'm all in favour of getting rid of people WHO don't really fit in the county and have no intention of trying, all those foreign parasites!

MuscatGary · Posted: Fri May 23, 2014 2:47 pm Post subject:

scot47 · Joined: 10 Jan 2003 Posts: 15343

Not just UKIP but Heinz57 Varieties of fascist and racist parties, viz Britain First, BNP NO2EU. (The latter being actually a Stalinist Party run by the "eccentric" English settler John Foster, who refuses to accept the outcome of the XXth Congress of the CPSU)

Rostom · Posted: Sun May 25, 2014 4:48 pm Post subject:

scotty, are you with the independence of Scotland?

scot47 · Joined: 10 Jan 2003 Posts: 15343

Read through some of my posts and you will see the answer.

Rostom · Posted: Sun May 25, 2014 10:09 pm Post subject:

It seems UKIP is causing a 'political earthquake' in UK, and gaining ground in Scotland (+10.4%)?
After this result, my reading is that Scotland will not get independence in September. Watch this space!
Enjoy, scotty! Laughing

Otterman Ollie · Posted: Mon May 26, 2014 11:16 am Post subject:

Well, well, never saw that one coming, perhaps the voters of the U.K are crying out for a change, about time I think!

Rostom · Posted: Mon May 26, 2014 12:10 pm Post subject:

scotty, where are you?
UKIP narrowly won its first ever seat in Scotland, dashing Alex Salmond's hopes of securing a record three seats in the European parliament!
http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/may/26/ukip-wins-first-scotland-seat

what a defeat and a disaster for Uncle Salmond and scotty! Laughing

Rule Britannia!

scot47 · Joined: 10 Jan 2003 Posts: 15343

Rostom - the poster formerly known by a number of other names - has it all wrong. SNP were top of the poll !

So much for the thoughts of 007 and King Cobra !

grahamb · Joined: 30 Apr 2003 Posts: 1945

As C.P. Scott, one-time editor of the Grauniad famously said, "Opinion is free but facts are sacred."

The results in Scotland according to the BBC:

SNP: 386,193, Labour: 346,377, Conservatives: 230,569, UKIP: 139,687, Greens: 107,805, Lib Dems: 95,076, Britain First: 13,551, BNP - 10,150, No2EU - 6,388.

Neither a defeat nor a disaster for the SNP.

Rostom · Posted: Mon May 26, 2014 8:25 pm Post subject:

Euro elections: Ukip officially wins first Scottish politician

"Ukip's main candidate, David Coburn, now an MEP, arrived at the central declaration point in Edinburgh last night and, in typically combative fashion, declared Alex Salmond to be the Robert Mugabe of Scottish politics, based on recently published land reform laws."

"We all have the same problems that need to be resolved and, quite frankly, Mr Salmond seems to think that Scotland is so different from everywhere else - well, it's not."
Mr Coburn said he will fight hard against the campaign for Scottish independence.
http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/home-news/european-elections-special-on-heraldscotland.1401004988

grahamb · Joined: 30 Apr 2003 Posts: 1945

Sir Oswald would have been proud of him.

scot47 · Joined: 10 Jan 2003 Posts: 15343

I see the newly elected UKIP MEP for Scotland used to run a Language School in London. It went bust, and so he took to Right-wing Politics as a career change.

grahamb · Joined: 30 Apr 2003 Posts: 1945

Perhaps the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna rejected him. Wink