For the second of my three posts on how I plan to vote in the elections (See here for my constituency decision), here’s my thinking on the Glasgow council elections. Surprisingly, I’ve found this the hardest decision to make, because we have three councillors, and a new STV system, and I’ve been struggling to work [...]
You’ve got to love election campaigns. Whilst at times they can be incredibly petty, with long and tedious disagreements over subtle matters of policies, they do have a habit of unearthing interesting policy detail, or aspects of leadership personalities, or interesting ways of understanding the electorate themselves. All in all, it’s unsurprisingly raw politics. But in [...]
A few canvassers have come knocking at the door, and some have asked what my voting intentions are. I told one that they could check my website. They probably dismissed me as a bit of a crank, but I’m nothing if not true to my word. I also think it provides a good way of [...]
I had meant to post this yesterday, but didn’t get around to finishing it off. So I’ll be brief: Evan Davis has put together what I think is a nicely balanced article on the economics of Scottish Independence. I always enjoy Evan Davis’ reports, even back when he was ‘just’ Newsnight’s resident Economist, but all the [...]
A few Independent candidates appear on the lists I’ll have in front of me when I vote on Thursday, but as so far I’ve very little idea what any of their policies are. Muhammad Shoaib is standing in Glasgow council elections AND as a Glasgow regional list candidate. We received a flyer that effectively said no [...]
Just finished watching the BBC leaders debate, and came away rather disappointed. More at the format and chairmanship than by the candidates themselves. I certainly think that it’s an important part of the election process to get all the leaders together, but the Question Time format they used didn’t really work here. My main problem was [...]
Our only “post” yesterday was a huge pile of household delivery items from the various parties standing in Glasgow. I’ve not got around to reading them yet, other than to flick through and see which parties are represented. Seems most of them are, but only the SNP and Labour have so far knocked on our [...]
I’ve recently been poking about technorati again. It’s come on a long way since it’s early days, and it’s starting to allow for quite quick and reasonably accurate searching of weblog posts. I’ve found a search on ‘Scottish Elections’ brings out quite a few good posts, and some new bloggers on the subject. You can subscribe [...]
Perhaps it’s because I’m a political-geek, and that I spend much of my free time reading up on the latest political developments, or even writing about my take on things. Or maybe there is an element of truth to my impression that the political debate that is going on around the Scottish elections is really [...]
I recently had a conversation with an apathetic voter, and they didn’t think they were going to bother voting for a number of reasons many of which boiled down to “It won’t make any difference” or “I’m happy with things as they are“. No matter what their general political leaning I always find apathy [...]
