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Are We Really That Thick As A Nation?


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I can see how the 2 questions could get very different results.

 

It's the same as when a politician starts a sentence with "Any right-minded person can see that ...", they're going to get more agreement from their audience.

 

If he was that determined to get a "Yes" vote, he could always have gone for the false dichotomy ...

"Should Scotland be an independent country or should we continue to be subjugated by the English?"

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i wouldn't underestimate the stupidity of the general public. i was marking a pub quiz on saturday night and one team thought the lone ranger's sidekick was called toronto and another team thought fred astaire was one of the magnificent 7.

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I thought it was more than that, but 600-odd votes for the NLP was about 600 more than they got in any other constituency.

 

Another example was the Socialist Labour Party getting a big vote in Glasgow North, when Michael Martin was standing as the Speaker. So, there was no Labour canididate, so people voted for the candidate with 'Labour' in the description.

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Who could forget Woy Jenkins that stood in Hillhead against his near namesake, Roy, in a bye election many moons ago?

 

I could.

 

The "other" candidate was Roy Harold Jenkins whilst the real article was Roy Harris Jenkins. Or was it the other way round?

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I could.

 

The "other" candidate was Roy Harold Jenkins whilst the real article was Roy Harris Jenkins. Or was it the other way round?

 

You're right, Allan, it was Roy Harold Jenkins (the spoof one).

 

There was, I'm sure, a Woy Jenkins who stood in a by-election in the '80s and whom I'm finding it difficult to source.

 

Confusion not assuaged by quotes like this (UK Polling Report):

"When the Commons was disgracefully empty in the New Labour years, people would see Galloway speaking on the TV from their offices, and rush back into the Chamber.

Although I was pleased he decapitated Woy Jenkins in Glasgow Hillhead (my emphasis) and helped wreck the “Alliance” after the 1987 election.

As a trenchant supporter of two party politics, I’m always delighted to see that."

 

August 16th, 2010 at 10:14 pm" http://ukpollingrepo...comment-page-8/

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You're right, Allan, it was Roy Harold Jenkins (the spoof one).

 

There was, I'm sure, a Woy Jenkins who stood in a by-election in the '80s and whom I'm finding it difficult to source.

 

Confusion not assuaged by quotes like this (UK Polling Report):

"When the Commons was disgracefully empty in the New Labour years, people would see Galloway speaking on the TV from their offices, and rush back into the Chamber.

Although I was pleased he decapitated Woy Jenkins in Glasgow Hillhead (my emphasis) and helped wreck the “Alliance” after the 1987 election.

As a trenchant supporter of two party politics, I’m always delighted to see that."

 

August 16th, 2010 at 10:14 pm" http://ukpollingrepo...comment-page-8/

 

eh?

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On the subject of how thick the powers that be take us to be, what a coincidence that a tv programme was aired this week purporting to present astounding new evidence that Stonehenge was in fact a place of gathering for all "Britons", with special emphasis on the fact that even "Highlanders" went there.

 

The "No" campaign will stop at nothing as they try to chip away at the very existence of Scotland as anything other than "north Britain".

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