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The New Fat Scotland 'Thanks for all the Fish' Thread.
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A_Pict_In_A_Past_Life wrote: »Why then is Scotland's GDP so far below England's?
Its a very good question.
In a union where we are supposed to be so much better together, why is the UK's GDP growing whilst Scotland has shrunk?
I'll need to look a bit more into that.:wall:
What we've got here is....... failure to communicate.
Some men you just can't reach.
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IveSeenTheLight wrote: »Pict, you've attempted to play the man again but appear to have fluffed and scored an own goal
My post you responded to was about additional votes, I mentioned nothing about the share of the vote.
If you want to reference the post where I talked about the share of the vote and indeed showed an understanding of the figures and statistical analysis, may I point you to my response to AMSJ
http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showpost.php?p=72557891&postcount=10422
Same thing.
You're avoiding the point as usual.
I don't care about Labour share etc etc etc.
Again then:
Is SNP vote share decreasing?0 -
IveSeenTheLight wrote: »I've not looked at the figures, but if we were to take your post as the reference
I would not get my knickers in a twist over a potential 0.03% variance, especially given the statistical rounding that also appears to be shown.
Digging in a little deeper, the figures appear to show that there is a variance of 0.0203945% rounded between the 2012 and 2017 council elections.
All within the realms of expectation given that turnout was 39.6% and 46.9% respectively
Do you realise that a 0.0203945% variance equates to 385 votes out of the 1889658 cast?
So I'll agree with you that statistically, the share has very marginally decreased, but in reality and within the realms of statistical analysis, the data points to a plateau in my opinion.
Now, given all that said and the SNP remained pretty flat, the conservatives failed to get the same share that Labour did in 2012
Labour achieved 31.39% in 2012
Conservatives only achieved 25.3% in 2017.
Indeed, if you look at Conservative and Labour combined in 2012, they achieved 44.66% of the First Preference Vote
In 2017, they achieved 45.5%.
The council elections only saw a swing from Labour to Conservative with SNP remaining flat.
The gap between the SNP and the second largest party of councilors has widened in 2017
That's one heck of a load of waffle.
Jock asked you:
"Do you deny SNP vote share is decreasing?"
Will you answer?0 -
IveSeenTheLight wrote: »Its a very good question.
In a union where we are supposed to be so much better together, why is the UK's GDP growing whilst Scotland has shrunk?
I'll need to look a bit more into that.
You do that.
In this all together union where Scotland is the only net exporter why is GDP not growing?0 -
So you dodge the question. I had expected you to defend what you had written, instead I get an SNP slogan.
Sad, eh?
Look over these pages & see how many questions go unanswered - that or the old trick of "drown it our with multipole posts" to move the questions away from the leading page.
These posters think no-one notices.
Increasingly they do, making many of the pro-indy posters in this thread look like a right bunch of unmentionables.
On the bright side it furthers favourable opinions of the unionist segment.
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A_Pict_In_A_Past_Life wrote: »That's one heck of a load of waffle.
Jock asked you:
"Do you deny SNP vote share is decreasing?"
Will you answer?
I did indeed.
I asked Shakey too IIRC.
I will try again:
For Shakey, ISTL and sss555ss:
Do you deny that SNP vote share is decreasing?0 -
A_Pict_In_A_Past_Life wrote: »Jock asked you:
"Do you deny SNP vote share is decreasing?"
Will you answer?
He did.A_Medium_Size_Jock wrote: »I did indeed.
I asked Shakey too IIRC.
I will try again:
For Shakey, ISTL and sss555ss:
Do you deny that SNP vote share is decreasing?
Already answered by ISTL.IveSeenTheLight wrote: »
So I'll agree with you that statistically, the share has very marginally decreased,
Will you guys stop trolling now? Please?Don't blame me, I voted Remain.0 -
mayonnaise wrote: »He did.
Already answered by ISTL.
Will you guys stop trolling now? Please?
What a surprise coming from you, an agitator the equal of the rabid pro-SNP acolytes within this thread.
You don't ask ISTL or Shakey to stop trolling?
Why is that, Mayo?
:whistle:
BTW, I posted " For Shakey, ISTL and sss555ss".
One down, two to go then.0 -
IveSeenTheLight wrote: »Interesting, Scotland appears to be the only net exporterSpot the odd one out...Shell pays oil tax to everyone but UK In 2015, Shell paid $4.1bn to Norway BUT Shell receives rebate from UK of $122m
Apologies for doing a Shaka.It all seems so stupid it makes me want to give up.
But why should I give up, when it all seems so stupid ?0 -
A_Pict_In_A_Past_Life wrote: »Ok if you want to put your spin on polls, try this.
But now that's out the way try this.
http://www.scotsman.com/news/general-election-2017-what-polls-say-three-weeks-before-the-vote-1-4446378
Yougov?
https://yougov.co.uk/news/2017/05/15/voting-intention-regional-breakdown-apr-24-may-5/It all seems so stupid it makes me want to give up.
But why should I give up, when it all seems so stupid ?0
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