Glenrothes
Forget the pyrrhic victory I wrote about yesterday, the reality has been a bloody nose for the SNP and a seriously good result for Labour.
It looks like everyone was shocked by the result, which suggests that the public might have been lying to the political parties and the pollsters. The naughty so-and-so's.
In many ways it is easier being the underdog, as Labour were.
As the incumbents at Holyrood and Fife Council the SNP seem to have found that being the target of discontent - rather than being able to grumble about Labour - is a very, very different place to be. And this will be something that Labour will target again and again.
It looks like everyone was shocked by the result, which suggests that the public might have been lying to the political parties and the pollsters. The naughty so-and-so's.
In many ways it is easier being the underdog, as Labour were.
As the incumbents at Holyrood and Fife Council the SNP seem to have found that being the target of discontent - rather than being able to grumble about Labour - is a very, very different place to be. And this will be something that Labour will target again and again.
13 comments:
Great result. And now fascinating to listen to the vitriolic Nat cyberbloggers and their equivalents on Radio Scotland phone-in.
One, who could scarcely contain her anger, defending the home care charges in Fife by saying that her mother paid £8 per hour for home care in 1977 under Labour. An absolute lie .... but if a lie is repeated often enough, the Nats rely on it becoming the truth.
Salmond was incredibly arrogant about the forthcoming "earthquake" in Glenrothes. Perhaps some of his supporters will now ease off from polishing his halo.
Here endeth the honeymoon period.
Bring it on....
You should run a poll Angus asking us whether we feel we are better off under and SNP government.
I voted SNP but I am now aghast at how they are performing. Manifestos are usually thrown to the side the morning after victory, but the SNP are simply unbelievable - they are not the party I thought I was voting for. They are liars and their vision of Scotland is one that I might think twice about even living in.
But where oh where is the opposition?
I think that the sun shines out of Alex Salmond's bum and you are all being unfair portraying him as an out of touch power-crazed dictator, when he is really a very nice man as long as you do as you are told......
anon 1.19pm
You voted SNP but you don't like their vision of Scotland???????
What did you think you were voting for?
Were you bowled over by the charismatic Mr Allan and forgot what he stood for?
Are you sure you voted SNP?
(That's the party that promised Glenrothes would experience an earthquake of seismic proportions.
Anyone have information on earthquakes not of sesmic proportions?)
Hey 2.13 - we all learn by our mistakes. Although I am aware that some people are just born with superior insight and don't have to learn anything at all.
where are the nat bloggers today?
I'm with annon 1:19, SNP not delivering but what are Labour throwing at them - Macsween ! Oh please NO NO
"where are the nat bloggers today?"
Too busy laughing, I should say.
the problem is that there is no opposition that is likely to draw me... i have just voted in angus' latest poll...the labour-ites(if i had been born else where and in more difficult times - i would prob. vote for them - though not at the last election) i vote (and will probably continue to vote) SNP because they are the only ones fighting for Scotland. The others are fighting for Scotland-but-hope-to-win-England (Lib) or Scotland-as-long-as-she-sticks-with-England (Lab) or just plain England (Con)
hahaha
I see wolfs in sheeps clothing on this thread... Looks like New Labourites like protraying themselves as dissapointed SNP voters...
"which suggests that the public might have been lying to the political parties and the pollsters."
Which, more correctly, suggests that Conservative and Lib Dem voters voted tactically...
I do vote but am not party loyal and tend to vote on what is being said, or how I am feeling about the parties at election time.
Whilst it was extremely nice to see the little dictator get the smug smile wiped off his face, Labour should not get carried away. The Tories are still showing a 13 point lead.
The SNP have been bloody quiet though haven't they?! {:-)
Mad Biker
"hahaha
I see wolfs in sheeps clothing on this thread... Looks like New Labourites like protraying themselves as dissapointed SNP voters..."
That reminds me...of Stornoway Chat...just before the elections last year...
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