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Elgin is the largest town in the parliamentary constituency of Moray, which returned a Conservative MP in 2017 with a 13.6% swing from the SNP. It also had the highest 'Leave' percentage (49.9%) of all the Scottish constituencies in the EU referendum; and also voted an above average 57.6% 'No'...

Meanwhile Gigilo, this from Rees-Mogg on his LBC show this morning (which I certainly didn't listen to) "The partiality of the BBC has become clearer and clearer. It is a pro-remain organisation, it regularly has more pro-remain interviewees on its programmes" Arthritic, tired old Aunty Beeb...

Good to see the Greens and Independents doing well, particularly the latter as I've long believed that local government shouldn't be run on tired old, divisive party political lines As for the Conservatives and Labour: a hearty two-fingered salute to the pair of them

Spiked serves a useful purpose in that it counters the received wisdom peddled by the liberal media. Spiked hacks gets up the noses of Guardian hacks and Guardian hacks get up the noses of Spiked hacks: good stuff However, Spiked has inexorably gone the way of many whose initial and laudable...

Voted hesitantly for CU & SM, though as I understand it Norway, being part of EFTA, is part of the Single Market but not of the Customs Union If there was an EFTA-only choice that would garner a less hesitant vote

This raised a wry smirk from: http://peterjnorth.blogspot.com/ By some way the sanest Brexiter I've come across His latest article 'Nothing Much to Celebrate' regarding yesterday's events is a good read too

Arrive in Holyhead circa 4th May and spend a day or two ambling/rambling around Holy Island. The coastal cliffs and Trearddur Bay are fabulous. The train journey to Chester via the Menai Straits bridge and North Wales coast is picturesque too Do keep quiet about Northumberland: it's a gem of...

For the Yorkshire Dales it's Leeds/Bradford Airport. A few miles north and you're in Lower Wharfedale. Check out Ilkley, nice town and the Sue & Harvey Smith stable is nearby

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The countryside of our smallish island is amazingly diverse, thanks mainly to its complex geology I don't have a favourite location: the 20-runners would comprise a field of 1/20 co-favs Those mentioned thus far are amongst them and I'll just throw in the Malvern Hills and the Yorkshire Dales...

Thanks Warbler. It did actually cross my mind that it would have been wise to check cohort numbers first At least my ramble wasn't completely unequivocal with a "quite likely" chucked in, just in case... It doesn't change my view that the 'young' - or the more vociferous among them - are as...

The link provided has those stats and others galore: A R L T 18-24 75 25 64 25-34 60 40 68 35-44 55 45 71 45-54 44 56 73 55-64 39 61 78 65-74 34 66 80 75+ 37 63 70 The point I was making, in reply to Gigilo's post concerning new voters and the young's...

In the 2016 Referendum: The 18-24 age group voted 75/25 Remain/Leave from a turnout of 64%, the lowest turnout of the age-group bands surveyed The 65-74 age group voted 34/66 from a turnout of 80%, the highest turnout The 75+ age group voted 37/63 from a turnout of 70%, which I'd surmise was...

Bit of a three-pipe problem this Miss Marple If Nath is Snath who is Ricky Lake? I'm never grumpy, just continually dazed and confused

Much ado about nothing indeed: this and that, that and nowt. A surrogate thread from the tormented wolf loosely derived from bantering bollox on TRF when the world was young and life was simple prior to ~2015 Snaith is Ricky Lake, another lost soul doomed to suffer eternal damnation in that...

Allen, Soubry and Wollaston have joined the Independent Group That makes a 'party' of eleven MPs; all of whom I've actually got some time for: wonders will never cease

Where was Owen Jones? Perhaps they're saving him for Lincoln next week which will certainly be a tough brexity gig Didn't think it was too bad a programme, though as we live in such angry polarized times any prog that permits vox pop is going to be unruly. Ferrari is a blow-hard rabble-rouser...

Concerning yes, but Ozgood must be aghast to learn that he liked an article from on-line successor to the dead-tree Living Marxism Like all of the more interesting people/groups/rags, Spiked's political leanings are hard to pin down, but it self-identifies as 'Libertarian-Left'

Here's a rather good article on the Abbott fracas https://www.spiked-online.com/2019/01/22/man-up-diane/ Most of the correspondents on Spiked Online are staunchly for Brexit but it's a welcome antidote to mainstream received wisdom, particularly that of The Guardian I find myself siding...

Presumably 'wee fud' is Scottish for 'little whiny wanker' - spot on QT is in Winchester this week, which demographically is light-years from Derby and voted 59/41 Remain in the referendum, so Owen Jones might get an easyish ride from the audience, though the Winchester Constituency is...