In the end I found Hinds / Greens a remarkably easy choice. Uneventful at the polling station.
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Posted 7 years ago #
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Ha, good man Klaxon.
Reasonably brisk business this morning at the polling station where I am, quite a few folk turning up, even a wee queue at one side. A rather lonely looking lady wearing an SNP rosette standing outside: I didm't meet her searching gaze. Last time around it was a similarly lonely looking lady with a Lib Dem rosette...
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This just about covers it -
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VOTERS were going to the polls today to elect the MSPs who will make Scotland’s laws for the next five years.
Polls show the SNP is on course for another victory, with Labour and the Conservatives battling it out for second place and the Greens tipped to make gains.
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Posted 7 years ago # -
As seen from London!
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Greens
Good night: Vote holds up despite Corbyn’s arrival, can point to gains in England, comes fourth or higher in London, retains a couple of Scottish seats.
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SNP
Good night: Secures comfortable majority in Scotland for historic third term in office, winning around 75 seats.
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https://inews.co.uk/essentials/news/politics/parties-hope-fear-super-thursday-local-elections/
Posted 7 years ago # -
I hate to sound like a typical grumpy commenter...
...but has anyone ever seen it "dubbed Super Thursday" before?
Also, I'd argue only holding the couple of Scottish seats they have would be a disastrously bad result for the Greens.
Posted 7 years ago # -
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It is hard to get excited about any race for second place, but with the Conservatives talking up their chances of becoming the official opposition the fallout for Labour could be tremendous. Coming third would be a shattering blow psychologically, one from which it would inevitably be asked, can the party survive.
Beyond party politics too, there are important issues. There are many good and able politicians, wearing rosettes of various colours, who work hard to make their part of Scotland and indeed the whole country a better place. Those individuals deserve our support. So, even if it is with a heavy heart, get out and vote. If you don’t, you forfeit all rights to complain about what might happen next.
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Posted 7 years ago # -
Ladies at the polling place remembered my Brompton from previous votes.
They were able to demonstrate a new aid for visually impaired voters which I hadn't seen before. They said I had demonstrated the Brompton before so it seemed like a fair exchange.
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From towpath at meggetland this morning I spotted two posters in the window of the same luxury flat, vote SNP Jim Eadie and Vote Green.
At first I thought a couple with a difference of opinion but then I realised that unlike in the rest of Scotland where the bloc vote has shifted entirely from labour to SNP resulting in the unquestioning vote SNP twice. Actually in Edinburgh the liberal intelligentsia are capable of voting light green SNP Jim Eadie and green on the list.
Not that I think there is going to be anything but an SNP landslide. With maybe more than 37 per cent of the electorate. But at least in Edinburgh it is possible to be left of centre and not voting SNP twice. (I was slightly taken aback at work when my albeit jaundiced view that the second SNP vote will be a wasted vote for many of those who vote that way was challenged by a mild mannered English woman i had thought might have been Tory. Turns out she might be Scottish and is obviously SNP. She challenged my arithmetic based on the rest of Scotland voting SNP twice. I challenged her saying that sort of nationalism would get UKIP gaining a seat and that it would be better to use the second vote to vote for other independence supporting parties such as RISE or Greens. She said she did not believe greens were indie supporting. I concluded she was brainwashed and resolved the mild tension by saying I had to cycle ten miles up a hill to vote SNP twice.
Then when I arrived at polling station my better half and eldest daughter tried to prank me by saying eldest had not voted for the lovely labour candidate. I said was I bothered ? and they admitted defeat.
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Local polling station was quite busy this evening. Cat Headley was outside and remembered me from the PoP feeder ride. I jokingly apologised for prodding her so much on Twitter about cycling, but she was very nice. Seems very capable and personable, though unlikely to get in.
SNP decorated car was parked up facing the wrong way in the loading bay outside their office on St John's Road as I went past and as I returned, and had been there when my wife walked past earlier. No sign of loading. Couple of other SNP cars cruising round Corstorphine as well this evening. Don't think all their activists are on board with the reducing pollution and congestion campaign.
Posted 7 years ago # -
I have to admit to enjoying this election.
Appreciate that we don't yet know the results and they may not be aligned to my hopes and dreams, but as a process it has been good.
Firstly, having the candidates announced last year, and 3 of the 4 being active on twitter has meant I've had chance to get to see what they are like and engage with them on issues I'm interested on.
Getting them out on a bike and having a chat with them has also helped appreciate that they are human just like the rest of us.
I did feel that when I came to put my X in the box I knew who I was voting for and have an idea what they would be like as an MSP if successful.
We'll see what the morning brings...
Posted 7 years ago # -
Lothian Chambers were dead when I went to vote just now. No one outside to represent a party and only one other voter inside. I voted Green twice and made a swift exit...
As jonty said, retaining two MSPs would be a shockingly poor result for the Greens.
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"As jonty said, retaining two MSPs would be a shockingly poor result for the Greens."
Yes, but that 'verdict' is about shockingly poor journalism!
Posted 7 years ago # -
SNP car parked on a junction in my manor.
Posted 7 years ago # -
The polls are shut.
This is what I wrote nearly a year ago -
http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14787#post-188703
Posted 7 years ago # -
Everybody wearing hi-vis for counting the ballot papers, upon which the Broughton Spurtle commented on Twitter:
"Thereby fuelling pro-cycling-bias paranoia of Embo white-van conspiracy theorists. Thank God no helmets. "
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Bizarre!
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Actually, a serious question. If everybody wears hi-vis, how do you then recognise fire wardens in case of emergency? You'll get hundreds of people in hi-vis running around, whose orders do you follow?
From a health&safety perspective, should hi-vis not be banned unless it is actually relevant for the job?
A while ago, somebody posted a picture from outside the Science Museum in London when it was evacuated after an alarm. It was a sea of hi-vis due to all the school classes (why?!) and hard to see if there were any museum officials at all.
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One of the reasons I don't run school trips to Millport anymore is that the council insisted they wear high viz tabards. On Gt Cumbrae. We took them but no kids wore them. If someone had been hit by a car I would have been in deep trouble.
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Now I'm more interested in hi-vis than in the results... Pictures on Twitter from Glasgow, Aberdeen and Newcastle show counting halls with people in ordinary clothes, so it seems only Edinburgh makes people dress like the Minions.
Posted 7 years ago # -
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Holyrood 2016: Scottish Tory leader Ruth Davidson wins Edinburgh Central
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Posted 7 years ago # -
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A rare victory for Labour, with Daniel Johnson taking Edinburgh Southern from the SNP.
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Posted 7 years ago # -
2 Edinburgh list seats for the Greens. Alison Johnstone was 2nd cab off the rank...
Posted 7 years ago # -
Lothian
Scottish Conservatives
Elected
Miles Briggs
Gordon Lindhurst
Jeremy BalfourSeats 3 Votes 74,972 22.9% Net percentage change in seats +11.3
Scottish Labour
Kezia Dugdale
Neil FindlaySeats 2 Votes6 7,991 20.8% Net percentage change in seats −4.1
Scottish Green Party
Elected
Alison Johnstone
Andy WightmanSeats 2 Votes 34,551
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/politics/scotland-regions/S17000012
Sarah Boyack out
Posted 7 years ago # -
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Liberal Democrat leader Willie Rennie takes seat from SNP
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/election-2016-scotland-36219201
Pretty good set of people who attended PoP in above results.
Posted 7 years ago # -
Just realised Jim Eadie is out - SNP got no Lothian list seats.
Hope there is another SNP MSP who wants to 'take over' ActiveTravel.
Posted 7 years ago # -
Jim Eadie, yes a bit of a shame.
I voted for him and Green on the regionals.
No idea who the labour bod is at all??
Posted 7 years ago # -
Sarah Boyack is a huge loss, but am i right in thinking that's Jim Eadie out as well? i'd expected him to get in on the list.
From a cycling perspective, i think we'll miss him inside the SNP..
Posted 7 years ago # -
Lesley Hinds didn't get in
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/politics/scotland-constituencies/S16000106
No real surprise, and 'good thing' for ActiveTravel in Edinburgh.
Posted 7 years ago # -
"No idea who the labour bod is at all??"
In spite of t-shirt, that's this year.
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He is Managing director of the Studio One and Paper Tiger group of shops in Edinburgh.
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