Tuesday 16 December 2008

Any need for this?

We have seen some guff motions from some quarters recently, but is there really any need to waste time and resources with crap like this?

S3M-03109 Kenneth Gibson (Cunninghame North) (SNP): That the Parliament congratulates SNP councillor Anthea Dickson, elected on 11 December 2008 to serve the people of Kilbirnie and Beith Ward on North Ayrshire Council in Cunninghame North constituency; notes that Anthea more than doubled the SNP share of the vote from 23.4% in 2007 to 48.9% in 2008 with a swing of 15% from Labour; is aware that in 2007, even as the SNP won Cunninghame North by 48 votes, it polled 831 fewer votes than Labour in Kilbirnie and Beith but has now polled 424 more; recognises that Labour has two branches in the area, including Scotland’s biggest, two Labour clubs and that the MP Katy Clark has two offices in Kilbirnie and Beith, and believes that if the SNP can win in such traditionally strong Labour territory it can look forward with confidence to even greater success elsewhere in the months and years ahead.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Any need for what? This blog? Not really would be my answer.

Holyrood Patter said...

ouch!

Anonymous said...

All done anonymously, how brave

Anonymous said...

No need for this.

And if one must, one should have added that the turnout was 25%, and that the seat was made vacant by the untimely death of an SNP councillor. Of course they were going to win this.