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Reluctant Hero · Posted: Sat Sep 26, 2009 7:38 pm Post subject:

Good article by Robbie Dinwoodie in The Herald that sums up the situation perfectly.

http://www.heraldscotland.com/blo...rcel-of-rogues/set-aboot-1.922128

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Alasdair · Posted: Sun Sep 27, 2009 6:35 am Post subject:

mairead · Posted: Sun Sep 27, 2009 8:06 am Post subject:

Smeaton to stand as candidate. What a joke. The world is going mad right enough.
That silly man wouldn't know anything about politics if it jumped out of his porridge and bit him on the nose.
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William_Cleland · Posted: Sun Sep 27, 2009 11:16 am Post subject: Re: Smeaton

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mairead · Posted: Sun Sep 27, 2009 1:54 pm Post subject:

Aye, you are right in that, but Smeaton in politics? C'mon, that must be the daftest thing I've heard in a long time. Hero? never. Not in a month of Sundays. Lying wee torag, well I might go for that.
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William_Cleland · Posted: Mon Sep 28, 2009 1:40 am Post subject:

Somebody should gently explain to him that his 15 minutes of fame is up now and the best thing he could do is return to obscurity while he is still remembered positively and before he starts to seriously alienate people. Although people on here tend to have very strong negative prejudices about Rangers supporters, the vast majority of people who go to non-denom schools in Glasgow (in and around Maryhill would be the only exception) wind up supporting Rangers to some extent regardless of their views about the Union and about all the stereotypical baggage that supporting Rangers is supposed to entail and it is worth bearing in mind that even in the east end of Glasgow more children go to non-denom schools than to the RC ones. I suspect John Smeaton will still get a bit of a sympathy vote from people from that background in a "none of the above" protest vote sort of way and that even some people from a Celtic supporting background might ignore ancestral tribalism and do the same as they would still see him as "one of us" in social class terms. No question that he has zero chance of winning, however.
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Reluctant Hero · Posted: Thu Oct 08, 2009 11:09 am Post subject:

The 12th of Novemeber has been chosen for the by-election.

Seems hardly worth it considering there will be a GE in May/June.
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Reluctant Hero · Posted: Thu Oct 15, 2009 8:58 pm Post subject:

The Tories have started their by-election campaign. Can't imagine they'll find a great deal of support!

The thing that annoys me is that politics is becoming more and more all about soundbites. For instance, the Tory candidate, Ruth Davidson said:

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