When the things you love keep changing
Tom Harris MP on Twitter, 10th March 2012:
"To the homeless, the unemployed, the hungry, the vulnerable, I say this: the SNP will give you a Scottish passport!"
Oof! That's some biting satire from the Scottish Labour man there, suggesting the SNP will do nothing for these unfortunate people other than change their nationality! That's going to sting those pesky "Tartan Tory" Nats! Hurrah for the good comrades of the Red Flag who stand up for the poor and the dispossessed!
But wait a minute – who's this vile, compassionless Tory slimebag sort, being quoted approvingly in the Telegraph by arch-Tory columnist Alan Cochrane barely three months earlier for telling those same unemployed, homeless and vulnerable to go and get stuffed, because his party has nothing to offer them?
"We were set up as the party to represent the values of working people, working being the key word. We weren't set up as some sort of charity to help the poorest in society – the long-term unemployed, the benefit dependent, the drug addicted, the homeless."
What? It's Tom Harris of the Scottish Labour Party, you say? We're confused again.
THe more I see about what Cochrane is writing, I don't bother to read him anymore as he has an adverse reaction on my blood pressure, the more I become sure that he is increasingly losing the plot.
On the contrary, I love reading him, because every week he gets more and more purple-faced with rage at the SNP's continued success, and I'm curious to see when he'll actually burst.
Harris is of the Tony Blair Socialist confessional, that is to say superimposable on the Thatcher dogma mindset.
Reading Cochorane is fun, as he increasingly turns into a caracture of himself, if such a thing is possible. I've run across him a few times at parlaimentry evening events, when the great and the good of civic Scotkand use the Garden Lobby for a few wines and nibbles. Always on the fringes and always on the phone. Kind of sums up the Torygraph in Scotland. I do wonder what happeended to his fragrant wife Jenny, last timeI looked she was relegated to writing puff pieces in the Scotsman, but that was over a year ago.
The fair Jenny was last seen in the Courier Mock ye not. That means her words are seen by far more eyeballs in Scotland than see her other half's ruminations.
Aye. It''s a Billy Connolly paraphrase for the twitter age right enough. How do you tell if a politician is lieing? His lips/fingers are moving.
Some things never change though.
link to wp.me
Jenny Hjul (Mrs. Cochrane) is also editor of "Equipped, The Armed Forces and Veterans Magazine.", which appears to be a freebie distributed to past and present members of the UK's armed forces.
link to equippedmagazine.co.uk
I haven't read any of her Courier articles but I used to read her pieces in the Sunday Times when she worked there and she easily matches good old Cochers in her outright hatred of the SNP.
It's no wonder Alan Cochrane thought Tom Harris was the best thing since sliced bread in that Telegraph article.
That will be the Tom Harris who appears to have conceded defeat tonight!
Just heard on Newsshaft that Fife is rumoured to have turned completely YELLOW!
Just hearing Labour candidate in East Lothian has congratulated #SNP candidate and count is still on going!
Battersea result
Con 26,730
UKIP 1,586
Lab 18,792
Green 1,682
LD 2,241
turn out 67.1%
Tory hold
I’m hearing on twitter and Facebook that Ian Davidson is GONE and David Mundell is GONE!
I think we can safely say the SNP has surpassed its previous high of 11 seats.
Just heard Ochil and Perthshire seat has 58% for Tasmina Sheikh, S.N.P.
Turnout for Gordon Brown’s old Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath seat was 70%, up from 62.37% in 2010
Nuneaton result
Lab 15,945
Ld 816
Con 20,827
Green 1,281
English Dem 104
TUSC 194
UKIP 6,582
turn out 67.2%
Con hold
STV reporting that Labour have conceded ALL seven seats in Glasgow!
Kilmarnock & Loudoun result
SNP 30,000
Lab 16,362
Con 6,752
LD 789
turnout 71.6%
S.N.P. GAIN!
Western Isles
Con 1,215
SCP 1,045
LD 456
SNP 8,662
Lab 4,560
turn out
SNP HOLD
Paisley and Renfreshire South result
Lab 17,864
SNP 23,548
Con 3,526
LD 1,010
SSP 278
turnout 75.4%
SNP GAIN!
Yeah Yeah Yeah
We love you Mhari, do your people proud xxx
This is beyond my wildest dreams. From here on we deal with what comes next.
Dundee West result
LD 1,057
Green 1,225
TUSC 304
Con 3,852
Lab 10,592
SNP 27,684
turn out 67.5%
SNP GAIN
Glenrothes Result
SNP 28,429
LD 892
Con 3,685
Lab 14,562
turn out
SNP GAIN
Falkirk result
SNP 34,831
Lab 15,130
Con 7,325
UKIP 1,829
LD 1,225
turn out 72.4%
SNP GAIN
Ochil and South Perthshire
SNP 26,620
Lab 16,452
Con 11,987
LD 1,481
UKIP 1,331
turn out 74.8%
SNP GAIN
Angus result
SNP 24,130
Con 12,900
Lab 3,919
UKIP 1,355
Green 965
turn out 67.6%
SNP HOLD
Dundee East result
SNP 28,765
Lab 9,603
Con 7,206
LD 1,387
Greens 895
CISTA 225
TUSC 104
turn out 72%
SNP HOLD
Dumbartonshire East result
UKIP 567
Green 804
Lab 6,754
SNP 22,093
Con 4,627
LD 19,926
turn out 81.9%
SNP GAIN
Rutherglen and Hamilton West result
SNP 30,279
Lab 20,304
Con 4,350
UKIP 1,301
LD 1,045
CISTA 336
turn out 69.7%
SNP GAIN
Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath result
SNP 27,628
Lab 17,654
Con 5,223
UKIP 1,237
LD 1,150
turn out 69.6%
SNP GAIN
Well done Taranaich!! You done us proud.
Midlothian result
SNP 24,453
Lab 14,594
Con 5,760
Green 1,219
UKIP 1,173
LD 1,132
turn out 71.2%
SNP GAIN106
Inverclyde
UKIP 715
SNP 24,585
CISTA 283
Con 4,446
Lab 13,532
LD 1,106
turn out 75.2%
SNP GAIN
Fuck you skelator. We laugh in your face, Paula Rose has just fainted!
Airdrie and Shotts result
SNP 23,887
LD 678
Lab 15,108
UKIP 1,088
Con 3,389
IND 136
turn out 66.4%
SNP GAIN
East Renfrew result
UKIP 888
Con 12,465
Lab 19,295
SNP 23,013
LD 1,069
turn out 81.1%
SNP GAIN
Tom Harris obviously didn’t get the memo from Harold Wilson, “This Party is a moral crusade or it is nothing.”