COUNT BREAKDOWN BY WARD
WARD Electorate Yes No Turnout Spoiled Total %
Barra, etc 2,045 1,106 592 1,698 1 1,699
Benbecula, etc 1,976 690 962 1,652 1,652
Harris and SL 1,461 526 699 1,225 3 1,228
Uig and NL 1,952 739 935 1,674 2 1,676
Point 1,539 618 733 1,351 1,351
Stornoway S 2,379 858 1,060 1,918 3 1,921
Stornoway N 2,460 1,042 1,061 2,103 2 2,105
Broadbay 1,850 712 900 1,612 3 1,615
West Side, Ness 2,121 797 1,019 1,816 2 1,818
Postal votes 5,125 2,107 2,583 4,690 3 4,693
Totals 22,908 9,195 10,544 19,739 19 19,758 86.20
Well well well! So it was a complete fabrication that Point had gone yellow! Will the Ancient Mariner now correct the ships log? Will there be a public apology for upsetting 733 people in Point? I wouldn’t hold my breath!
how the heck did you manage to get this ??
Nechtan, stop your grumbling and have some pity on us Barrachs. We voted by a huge majority for “Yes” to get rid of the useless MP and send him to Iceland. Alas it was not to be, and we are saddled with him until next May.
This is conclusive proof that the vote was rigged and people gave the right answer to the wrong question it should of bin do we want to be part of England? No, then we would of have got the right result. I am having a sale of tinfoil hats for the 45ers this Saturday at Bayhead. Alba gu Broth!
It is interesting, and quite sad, to see the number of Quislings, Uncle Toms and Fearties we have in the islands.
What a shocker who would have thought this would happen after all the yes shouting and tearing down posters? My husband was well pleased though, and is still chuckling when he thinks of all the SNP faces at the count, and he claims the MP was bauling, which I don’t believe although the faces on the telly were glum indeed even the fellow announcing the result. Himself is over the moon Point is still red, and there is a black cloud over Bayhead.
Bawling, Sy Gal, bawling. I would have liked to have seen that, and I cannot help thinking that the kind of people who led the campaign for the SNP, and their endorsement by the MP and MSP, contributed to this humiliating defeat. The kind of language used by Guga, and the vandalising of the No Thanks posters also helped. I look forward to another rout next May.
Sober Island, you should recall the words of Burns about how “we are bought and sold for English gold, sic a parcel of rogues in a nation”.
At least 45 % of us are not prepared to sell our souls for 30 pieces of English silver. In the not too distant future more and more will feel that way when they wake up and realize that the English government’s promises are, in the words of Stalin, like pie crusts, made to be broken.
thanks ian
From the Urban Dictionary:
Bauling
pronounced;’ ba-au-ling’
means to have some form of fun or rave but in a more ludicrous way.
orginates from the terminology of “balling” and “baul” creating an abrevaited term of “bauling”
in order to baul one must be crazy and marginally ludicrous
that person was bauling
she was baulling so hard
bauling can be also refered to the sound made by a banshee or a hysterical maniac
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So maybe Sy Gal was right.
Guga has a very distorted view of history and he/she/it has blanked out the fact that we were broke (Darien Scheme) when we begged to join the Union 300 years ago. Thankfully, a handsome majority of us voted to stay with the UK and reject the snake oil being offered by Salmond and his ilk, which would have left us broke (again) and isolated. Thanks to Guga and the idiotic wing of the SNP even the Western Isles rejected nationalism, and we will soon reject the useless MP and MSP.
Guga is the only thing here that makes sens, all the rest are of there heads, Salmon shuld declare UDI like smthe did in Rodesia many years ago and let us be free once again. We can live off herring, potatoes and mutton, with whisky and oil we will want for nothing, who needs the pound?
Madhatter, are you the MP by any chance, or are you merely the SNP campaign organiser?
Sober Island, you really need to read up on your history. “We” were not broke after the Darien Scheme which, incidentally, was deliberately undermined by the English who combined with their then enemies, i.e. the Spanish and the French, to do so. The ones that were “broke” were a number of investors, mainly assorted aristos and would be aristos, who later turned out to be traitors who were bought for English gold. If you like, and with Iain’s indulgence, I can supply a list of these traitors and the amounts they were paid by the English.
It is also noteworthy that the English didn’t fully trust the traitors in the Scottish (unrepresentative) parliament to vote the “correct” way, and massed English troops at the Scottish border just in case. The English, correctly, knew that nobody can ever trust a traitor. However, we, in Scotland, haven’t fully learned that lesson yet.
Incidentally, the Scottish people never begged for anything from the English. We, the people, have known ever since the Angles and the Saxons came to this country from Germany, that these foreigners only wanted to invade our country to steal our money and resources, and kill, exploit and enslave our people. Nothing much changes, does it?
In addition, your grasp of facts is also very limited. The question of Scottish independence is mutually exclusive from the question of support for the SNP. I am not a member of the SNP, nor do I agree with everything they say or do. I do, however, support Scottish independence as I am fed up with my country having its money and resources stolen by the English, and having the Scottish people exploited by these foreigners.
As for Labour party supporters, Keir Hardie must be birlin in his grave, knowing that the Scottish Labour Party is merely a branch of the London Labour Party, totally subject to their control, and has to follow their Tory attitudes and policies. If the Scottish Labour Party were truly Scottish, they would welcome independence as that would allow them to establish a genuine Scottish Labour Party with genuine Labour policies. However, it would seem that most of them wish to remain as English lackeys and third rate Tories.
Guga – shed the xenophobia and say something positive about Scotland.
Guga, thank you for reinforcing my point so eloquently! Keep it up Guga!