Well today is voting day! What do you mean ‘what election’? Pah! Well I didn’t change my mind in the end. I came across this article by Magnus Linklater, my first preference. “I have no intention of playing the Scottish card, of course,” he says, although I think he has. His campaign website is tartan […]
Mark Lawson #1 for Rector!
Students’ Representative Council fails to represent students
This week’s Student Newspaper (no link yet unfortunately) reports that Edinburgh University Students’ Association is getting well involved in the upcoming Rectorial election. Are they taking measures to try and boost turnout? Or perhaps they’ll have a wee awareness campaign to tell people what the hell a Rector actually does? Actually, they are campaigning against […]
Ballard’s poll is conclusive!
Woopsadaisy. “Student favourite” for the upcoming Edinburgh University Rectorial election, Mark Ballard has put a poll up on his website asking who you are most likely to vote first. It would appear to be Boris Johnson, by a significant margin. I was one of only four voters for Magnus Linklater, so I guess I don’t […]
Edinburgh’s Rectorial election
I don’t think I had heard of Magnus Linklater until earlier today. He is apparently one of the candidates for rector of Edinburgh University. Nominations closed yesterday, but I can’t find anything about it on Edinburgh University’s website — but then again, it’s very difficult to find anything on that website. I’m not exactly sure […]
Everybody wins!
You know, I really hate by-elections. Because everybody always seems to win. I mean, everybody. Labour won. Hang on, the SNP did. Oh no, it was a disaster for the nationalists. Good for the Lib Dems though. But the Conservatives are making progress. The Greens beat the Socialists! And the SSP… well… uh… I guess […]
Call for EU transparency
All five British leaders call for greater transparency in EU’s Council of Ministers. See The Liberal Dissenter on this.
Greens back independence
Scottish Greens back vote for independence.
Biased BBC
Those dirty liberals!!! Channel 4 has been forced to apologise to the Green party after mistakenly transmitting its election broadcast with subtitles from the UK Independence Party… The Green spokesman said Channel 4 told his party that the erroneous subtitles – which ran for three of the broadcast’s five minutes – were added as a […]