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February 05, 2005
Goodbye Stirling?
The Save the Scottish Regiments Campaign’s decision to support SNP, Tory and Liberal-Democrat candidates in the coming general election was confusingly reported yesterday with the campaign failing to put a statement on their website.
It is now clear that the campaign will support four SNP candidates in the Western Isles, Dundee East and West, and Ochil and South Perthshire. This is good news. Prospects for the SNP are good in all four seats. To capture them all would be a considerable coup for the party.
Unfortunately the campaign is supporting the Conservative candidate here in Stirling. At the last general election, the SNP came third, but not by a huge margin. The constituency has changed a little with the addition of four wards from the old Ochil constituency. The adjusted ‘notional’ 2001 result by Alba publishing would have given Labour 18,525 votes (43 percent), Conservatives 10,222 (24 percent), SNP 7,352 (17 percent), and Liberal Democrats 4963 (11.5 percent).
Clearly the SNP candidate, Frances McGlinchey, would have an uphill struggle to win this seat, however the Save the Scottish Regiments Campaign campaign is overshadowed here by a much weightier moral issue - the Iraq War. The sitting Labour MP Anne McGuire voted for the war and should be firmly held to account.
www.savethescottishregiments.co.uk/main.htm
Posted by Simon Holledge at February 5, 2005 10:27 AM
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UPDATE
This entry has been edited and the comments have been removed. When it first appeared it caused controversy. This was partly my fault. One sentence was less than ideally phrased and caused misunderstandings. Unfortunately the exchanges which followed were not limited to comments, but also took the form of email and letter(s). For that reason I have decided to delete it all.
Posted by: Simon Holledge at March 29, 2005 12:07 AM