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[AMMS]

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Why do you say that TT? 4 months ago Labour lost a very 'safe' seat in the east of Glasgow, an area with no history of SNP support. Yesterday they held a seat that has strong SNP support and had a strong SNP candidate. Seriously, it was a very bad result for the SNP and was a seat they would undoubtedly have won 2 months ago.
The only thing you can point at for this result is the world economy, it has not only made many people actually think about politics again it has resulted in the near collapse of the entire Scottish banking system, making any thoughts of independence laughable.
Whilst maybe not making a referendum in 2010 an irrelevance it will certainly not result in independence.

[DCI Harry Batt]

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There's a few million to lose their jobs yet.

I just wouldn't assume that people will carry on thinking tomorrow what they think today, that's all. People change their minds about things very quickly in huge numbers, at times. And this recession has a very long way to go.

[NHH]

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It's all gotten interesting in Holyrood; the SNP teated the Greens pretty contemptuously, fully expecting them to cave and vote for the budget; they held their nerve and voted against and so the Budget falls.

They'll come back and do it again real soon, but if that doesn't work, then there'll be a new election. fascinating stuff.

[DCI Harry Batt]

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Isn't it a bit more complicated, on the "new election" front? Don't they have actually to vote for a dissolution, rather than its being in the gift of the first minister?

[NHH]

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Yeah, sright.

[Disco Child Ballads]

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Speaking of elections, there's a council by-election in my ward today. It's the first time I've ever got to vote in one of those. It's a Labour ward but the Greens seem to think they've got a good chance in winning it off them.

[E10 Rifle]

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You've shunned the mad Turkish Tankies then, despite their insightful comments on microchips?

[Disco Child Ballads]

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I haven't said who I'm going to be voting for.