Comments on: Inverclyde

By: Dalek

Dalek — Mon, 04 Jul 2011 00:13:46 +0000

If you omit Inverkip, Gourock Weymess Bay, The West End of Greenock and Kilmacolm to leave Port Glasgow and Central East and SW Greenock, the Tories would have been on less than 5% and the Lib Dems less than 1%.

Port Glasgow and Central East and SW Greenock

Lab: 64.2%
SNP: 28.0%
Con: 4.4%
LD: 0.9%
UKIP: 0.5%

Inverkip, Gourock Weymess Bay, The West End of Greenock and Kilmacolm

SNP: 46.0%
Lab: 32.6
Con: 15.4%
LD: 3.5%
UKIP: 1.5%

By: Joe James B

Joe James B — Sun, 03 Jul 2011 18:48:31 +0000

Yes I do think it’s a good result for the Tories – within a context, and we should say so.

By: Barney Crockett

Barney Crockett — Sun, 03 Jul 2011 15:22:19 +0000

Shaun B
As a Labour lolitician, I agree. It shows what you can do with a sensible, decent, local candidate with a very strong anti-SNP message.

By: Shaun Bennett

Shaun Bennett — Sun, 03 Jul 2011 13:26:42 +0000

“I find it interesting that the Conservatives in Wales, a country inherently far less small-C conservative than Scotland, have managed to stage an IMO rather impressive recovery”

Indeed. In fact, its not even a matter of Tory ‘recovery’ in Wales (unless you mean since 1997). In fact, Wales has never been MORE Tory and its getting more so it seems. The height of Tory electoral fortunes in Wales was actually during the Thatcher years when the party had never been more popular and was challenging for status as largest party at one point. Now thats something to think about isn’t it!

“It was a solid performance for the Tories – clearly they do have some votes here.
But I wouldn’t pop open the champagne on 10% of the vote”

Nobody is saying you should. But neither should we rush to talk down a performance that was actually fairly reasonable. 10% was ok and we should say so.

By: Joe James B

Joe James B — Sun, 03 Jul 2011 01:32:58 +0000

It was a solid performance for the Tories – clearly they do have some votes here.
But I wouldn’t pop open the champagne on 10% of the vote.

By: Adam

Adam — Sat, 02 Jul 2011 20:41:54 +0000

Surley the 9.9% the tories got can’t just be down to hard core unionists. There’s got to be some genuine conservatives, just like there is in every constituency, just not in very large numbers.

By: A Cairns

A Cairns — Sat, 02 Jul 2011 19:32:16 +0000

‘One bit of talk I heard after the SNP’s resounding victory in the Scottish parliamentary election was that they were aiming for control of Glasgow Council. Can that be in any way realistic, or is it brave talk and no more?’

I’ve had a look at the figures and it looks narrowly possible if the SNP gains the third seat from Labour in 4 member wards and another 2/3 seats and the lib dems are wiped out.

It could actually go down the wire with 3-5 greens holding the balance of power.

By: Barnaby Marder

Barnaby Marder — Sat, 02 Jul 2011 19:21:29 +0000

One bit of talk I heard after the SNP’s resounding victory in the Scottish parliamentary election was that they were aiming for control of Glasgow Council. Can that be in any way realistic, or is it brave talk and no more?

By: A Cairns

A Cairns — Sat, 02 Jul 2011 18:53:45 +0000

‘Is this actually down to incompetence, as no doubt Richard would argue, or is it due an emotional and somewhat irrational dislike of them?

Presumably the ongoing toxicity of the Tory brand in Scotland I guess.

The 3 FPTP holds were possibly down to the personal votes of those MSPs as the SNP ‘won’ those constituencies on the list and were third in that respect in Dumfriesshire, Eastwood and Edinburgh Pentlands.

(the SNP actually ‘won’ like that everywhere except Ren. South, Glasgow Provan and Shetland I believe.)

By: Calum Smith

Calum Smith — Sat, 02 Jul 2011 18:05:33 +0000

And I understand the argument about Scots being less liberal than the English, I believe it myself, but the Scottish Tories can now only dream of being as ‘unpopular’ as they were during the Thatcher years, if you look at the vote shares they achieved between 1979 and 1992.