Inverness Nairn Badenoch and Strathspey
2010 Results:
Conservative: 6278 (13.33%)
Labour: 10407 (22.1%)
Liberal Democrat: 19172 (40.72%)
SNP: 8803 (18.7%)
UKIP: 574 (1.22%)
Green: 789 (1.68%)
Christian: 835 (1.77%)
TUSC: 135 (0.29%)
Others: 93 (0.2%)
Majority: 8765 (18.62%)
2005 Results:
Liberal Democrat: 17830 (40.3%)
Labour: 13682 (30.9%)
SNP: 5992 (13.5%)
Conservative: 4579 (10.3%)
Other: 2172 (4.9%)
Majority: 4148 (9.4%)
Boundary changes prior to 2005 election: Name of seat changed from Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber.
2001 Result
Conservative: 5653 (13.3%)
Labour: 15605 (36.8%)
Liberal Democrat: 9420 (22.2%)
SNP: 10889 (25.6%)
Other: 894 (2.1%)
Majority: 4716 (11.1%)
1997 Result
Conservative: 8355 (17.5%)
Labour: 16187 (33.9%)
Liberal Democrat: 8364 (17.5%)
SNP: 13848 (29%)
Referendum: 436 (0.9%)
Other: 578 (1.2%)
Majority: 2339 (4.9%)
No Boundary Changes:
Profile:
Current MP: Danny Alexander(Liberal Democrat) Chief of Staff to Nick Clegg since 2007 (more information at They work for you)
Jim Ferguson (Conservative) Mike Robb (Labour) Danny Alexander(Liberal Democrat) Chief of Staff to Nick Clegg since 2007 (more information at They work for you)John Finnie (SNP) Donnie MacLeod (Green) Ross Durrance (UKIP) Donald Boyd (Christian Party) George McDonald (TUSC)Kit Fraser (The Joy of Talk)2001 Census Demographics
Total 2001 Population: 87097
Male: 48.6%
Female: 51.4%
Under 18: 22.9%
Over 60: 21.3%
Born outside UK: 3.5%
White: 99%
Asian: 0.3%
Mixed: 0.2%
Other: 0.3%
Christian: 65.2%
Graduates 16-74: 20.8%
No Qualifications 16-74: 30.3%
Owner-Occupied: 68.3%
Social Housing: 18.6% (Council: 15.3%, Housing Ass.: 3.3%)
Privately Rented: 9.5%
Homes without central heating and/or private bathroom: 6.6%
Danny Alexander avoided paying capital gains tax on the sale of his second home according to a story in the Daily Telegraph.
Okaaay.
Seems like the Telegraph held back some tidbits to release as and when they like.
Unless these things are coming out by other means.
The most powerful newspaper in British politics seems to be the Telegraph right now. Not a fact which will please Rupert Murdoch.
I can’t quite make it out.
I thought they got hold of a CD a good several months back, and this should have been an entity.
Therefore it follows that they have held things back to release when they think they can cause embarrassment, although how they could have predicted a Con/LD coalition seems too far fetched.
Perhaps they have found some more bits.
No Murdoch probably won’t like this.
Maybe they’re trying to discredit the coalition in favour of a possible Tory minority government or early election. Sounds a bit crazy to me since it risks a return of the Labour Party to government. (I know that’s unlikely but without an election the chances are obviously zero).
Yes, that’s a good point, maybe they are.
Although I take the Telegraph most days, and they seem to be grudingly accepting of the co-alition.
Even I think it was probably the only choice other than another election very soon.
There are things tempting about a second election, as the Tories may have an advantage on turnout/honeymoon, and the LDs could be seen as preventing the formation of a government.
Minority Conservative government sounds basically like pretending you’ve got an overall majority when the fact is there isn’t, and the LDs would go off determined to vote it down from day 1.
Although this election had an increased interest and turnout, I’m worried that it still wasn’t what it used to be, and another election could be resented as this increased interest is still fragile.
Plus of course, we really do have to put the national interest top.
The Telegraph story is going nowhere. Laws broke the rules (albeit for various reasons with which one has some sympathy). Alexander broke no rules whatsoever.
I haven’t read this in any detail,
only that it is a loophole within the law as you say.
What I do know is that I have a small second home which I’ve owned for 10 years, which I thought would contribute towards my income later. It isn’t worth much, and when I sell it I will have to pay Capital Gains Tax,
and the rules in my case are very clear.
Ben Foley
“But Andy, unless you cite credible sources, the ages you report are not so much ‘facts’ as heresay. ”
Wikipedia:-
Daniel ‘Danny’ Grian Alexander (born 15 May 1972) …
George Gideon Oliver Osborne[1] (born 23 May 1971) …
Ben do you consider Wiki as credible? (In this respect).
I’m starting to grow tired of these revelations.
Yes it is boring.
One would hope that all this was out in the last Parliament, and we can move on – for all our benefits.
Blake, my point was that reification of ‘facts’ is particularly absurd when the ‘facts’ are asserted without citing credible sources.
And no, I wouldn’t consider Wikipedia to be sufficiently credible to use the word ‘fact’ to describe something on Wikipedia in the way that Andy was using it, unless there was a reference to something more credible. Wikipedia can be a useful source of information, but at times can also be a source of mis-information.
Since neither date has a cited source, I don’t think we have made progress in establishing status as ‘facts’ by appeal to Wikipedia. I would, as it happens, tend to believe the ages Andy gave were correct, in the absence of evidence to the contrary. But how much effort I would put into verifying them would depend what I was going to stake on their accuracy. And that is where Andy’s ‘I like facts’ runs into trouble: he asserts the ages, and disclaims any interpretation. But why assert the ages, unless you think there is some significance to them? And if there is some significance, what is it? Without knowing how significant the ages are, how do I know how much time and effort to put into finding sources that would give real evidence as to what the dob was for either? I suspect all the significance of Andy mentioning the ages hasn’t justified the amount of typing we have done already… …but I don’t know.
Anyway, it looks like the Torygraph story about Danny Alexander is them trying to get the maximum impact for the work they put in, which found out nothing of any real significance about him.
I suspect John D will get even more tired of these revelations, since there are a significant number of Tory and LibDem MPs who now have a much higher profile, by being in Government, than they had a year ago. The Telegraph will, I suspect, run more such stories over coming weeks, but they will be less harmful for the Tories, since the Tory Party can make sure we dont face a General Election until they have been forgotten about. Labour didn’t have that luxury.
Ben Foley – I have a lot of reliable reference books with this kind of information, including the Times Guide to the House of Commons.
I don’t think we need to have some kind of silly post-modern argument on the subject of citing facts here.
In terms of current Highland Council wards, which ones presently make up this seat?
All of Inverness West, Inverness Central, Inverness Ness-side, Inverness Millburn, Culloden & Ardersier, Nairn, Inverness South, and Badenoch & Strathspey as well as most of Aird & Loch Ness.