Thought this deserved a thread on it's own, who will our resident Jocks be voting for? Very important election as it will amplify the calls for indyref 2. Votes please gentlemen
Just out of curiosity, does anyone know if there is a reason why polling is always held on a Thursday?
no point in voting, big C SNP will win nearly every seat even though they’re failing their people miserably year after year after year. We deserve them.
It's ****ing mental, mate. They've failed to deliver on education, the economy, health and crime. The more they continue to fail the more votes that they get because for every failure they shout 'It's the Tory's fault' and then, because of the education failing so badly, the folk believe them and new SNP supporters are born. I'd be planning my move away now if I lived in Scotland. Asking you to grass on your own family members for saying something out of turn at the dinner table? ****ing nasty ****s. They already control the media up there now. **** that.
Precisely. Independent, my ****ing arse. These twats should look up the word "independent" in the dictionary. I'll give you a clue thickos, it starts with an "i".
Something to do with people being skint waiting to be paid so there was more chance of people actually voting as opposed to being pished or something like that.
Before the 1918 Representation of the People Act, elections took place over several days but somebody eventually realised how that was open to manipulation. The Act is better known for the fact that women over the age of 30 got the vote for the first time. Ironically, the 1918 election was actually held on a Saturday. None of the following three elections were on a Thursday either. According to the Electoral Reform Society, in modern times elections have mostly been carried out on Thursdays because it is the day furthest from the last pay day (the previous Friday) and away from the influence of the brewers (Friday, Saturday Conservatives) and clergy (Sunday Liberals). I think most would agree that those influences are less of an issue in our modern secular, drink 7 days a week world. There is no legal reason why elections have mostly been held on Thursdays since 1935, it has just become the accepted norm. There have been quite a few by-elections held on other days of the week for various reasons, so polling is not ‘always’ on a Thursday. Cue ALDO because that was not concise...