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@MSmithsonPB A shy No in Lenzie East Dinbartonshire pic.twitter.com/kA20O1uvPJ
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Edit: but not enough.
Took them long enough!
Makes coverage look better.
@JosiasJessop
If people feel that no matter how hard they work, they are going nowhere, you economy is furuked.
Best idea is to sort it, or bury your head in the sand.
A lot of the "Yes" votes are borrowed. A percentage of those were motivated by the idea of "No more Tories ever!"
Quite a prominent slogan for left leaning voters, and well placed on the way to the voting place.
Good chance No gets over 55%.
Sadly, many people in poor areas are burying their heads in the sand by voting for Labour each time, who have done nothing to improve things for generations.
As an aside, I've been looking for an answer to what I call the 'Merthyr' problem for some time. Merthyr Tydfil is a poor town in a beautiful area. They have weighed Labour votes since 1970 (*), yet it is still a poor area despite having some lovely people. Until Labour can help people like those in Merthyr, they do not deserve power.
(*) And only then because the previous Labour MP, Owen Davies, was deselected and stood as an independent and won.
'tis the night of the psephologically illiterate armchair traders.
Tell me, who exactly has "won" in monetary terms, and who has lost?
In honour of Mick Pork, chortle.
I seem to remember that you soiled your underwear during the "riots"?
Come ahead if you think you are hard enough you effete pansy!
So, what next? The pledge won't go anywhere, the leaders won't go anywhere, what about Gordon Broon?
"If the final result is indeed 43% : 57%, representing a No win by 14% (perhaps even more), you'd have to say that the pollsters didn't exactly cover themselves with glory.
The reason ...... for my money they hopelessly underestimated the Shy Nos, just as they will underestimate the Shy Tories next May - remember you read it here first!"
"Do you want different Income Tax in Manchester and Kent?"
I'll put in down to all the door-knocking, and putting 4 No Thanks flags on the car
@AlanRoden: Journalists for selected media outlets are heading to meet Alex Salmond in an undisclosed location in Edinburgh. #indyref
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Referendum result projected to reject independence
Jim Murphy ok, but pls no Gords!! Actually we can go back to hating socialists - all of them
I'm guessing 44.5%
I can give numerous examples from people I know and have known: likeable people who society have thrown onto the scrapheap. In a few cases they have been told by authority figures (e.g. teachers) that they were only good for one type of job which has now disappeared. They have been hurt by the disease of low expectations. On the other hand, a girl from a similar family who put herself through uni (with no help from her parents) and now earns a great deal. In this as in all matters, confidence is key.
However: there is a big problem with people earning large rewards with little risk or effort. That is, to me at least, obvious.
Concentrating hatred on the people who succeed does not help those who do not. We should be trying to make more of the latter into the former.