Comments on: Rival polls on the Mayoral Election

By: jim

jim — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 21:04:58 +0000

“What the crap counting machines you sent up her last year……”

i think the councillor may need to grow up a bit, statements like this show he is actually not a particularly effective arguer or orator.

By: Charlie

Charlie — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 17:33:32 +0000

@jeff – “Livingstone needs to start communicating to Green, Respect and Lib Dem voters that if they don’t back him, they’ll get Boris Johnson.”

Not true. Under STV, Green, Respect and LibDem voters can still put their own candidate first and Ken second. That way they give their own candidate the best chance they can, but also do their bit to help keep out anyone they really don’t want. That’s the beauty of the system and the reason it needs to be rolled out to general elections.

By: Andy Stidwill

Andy Stidwill — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 01:02:28 +0000

Not sure whether they were the same kind of machines. If they were, that would be a bit of an own goal by the Scottish authorities!

I remember just before the 2000 London election, there was great fanfare about the new machines being used to count the votes. In the end, there were so many problems with them that the result was declared many hours later than expected; I can’t recall the exact time, but I certainly can remember being extremely tired after staying up all night waiting for the results to come through, which weren’t all that interesting in the end, unfortunately.

By: Cllr Peter Cairns (SNP)

Cllr Peter Cairns (SNP) — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 19:20:44 +0000

Andy,

What the crap counting machines you sent up her last year……

Peter.

By: Andy Stidwill

Andy Stidwill — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 15:31:50 +0000

I think Ken will do disastrously in the outer London boroughs, while doing relatively well in inner London. It’ll be close, and I’m expecting a lot of recounts to take place on May 1st/2nd; I hope they’re not going to use the same counting machines that made such a mess of it in 2000.

By: Cllr Peter Cairns (SNP)

Cllr Peter Cairns (SNP) — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 12:09:32 +0000

Sally,

I don’t buy it.

Firstly Scottish nationalism isn’t ethnic it’s civic, anyone who wants to make Scotland there home can be a Scot.

Second, unlike Kosovo would have the blessing of the UK. We would only be independent after a fair referendum and all main UK parties have said they would abide by that, England isn’t Serbia.

Three, Independence without bloodshed or the threat of it makes a big difference, unlike the Basques, Northern Ireland or North turkey the situation has neither been exasperated or created by force.

Peter.

By: Sally C

Sally C — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 10:33:42 +0000

Sorry. Completely O/T

Peter
You may have already seen this article in the FT, but if not I thought might be of a some interest to you. Can’t say I had seen the Kosovo/Scotland/EU connection.

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/a4756a3c-e472-11dc-a495-0000779fd2ac.html

By: Cllr Peter Cairns (SNP)

Cllr Peter Cairns (SNP) — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 10:31:01 +0000

Fluffy,

It’s spelt Burgh……

Peter.

By: Fluffy Thoughts (EDP)

Fluffy Thoughts (EDP) — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 10:02:22 +0000

It may come as a surprise to those who a net-subsidised in the UK (i.e. those north of the Watford Gap) but Londoners seem fed-up with Ken and his acolytes. Even those who have once voted for him!

By the way Peter, who is the Mayor for the borough of Scotland…?

By: Anthony Wells

Anthony Wells — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 09:09:13 +0000

GIN – Yep, there will be no problem on that front, MORI have confirmed it’s coming out.