Planet Politics (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
The post-poll analysis of last week's Glasgow North East by-election largely failed to mention the impact of the Socialist Labour Party on comparisons with the result in the 2005 general election. Of course, convention holds that the Parliamentary vote to re-elect the Speaker should be uncontested, thus the figures are not readily comparable, but the SNP did stand against Labour's Michael Martin in...
Stabroek News (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
Typewriter technician Michael Martin Crawford of Lot 9 Martin Luther Scheme, New Amsterdam, Berbice, was refused bail after two indictable charges of rape were read to him by ...
Scotsman.com (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
SPEAKER John Bercow will break with tradition at his first Queen's Speech by wearing tails, rather than the court dress worn by his predecessors, including Michael Martin.
Denverstrope (Free subscription) | 14/11/2009
After the revelation that little Johnny Bercow's beanpole wife (relatively speaking) is standing in local council elections for the Labourists in Westminster, today the Telegraph reports that he has spent a small fortune redecorating the Speaker's grace and favour apartments. Cost to you and me? A cool £45,000. So the story goes, it was wifey Sally Bercow (you know, the prospective Labour local...
Andrew Allison (Free subscription) | 14/11/2009
I'm down with the flu and not at my best, however, I do want to comment on the result of the Glasgow North-East by-election. If you look at ukpollingreport , you will see since 1997, Labour has polled fewer votes at each subsequent election, although during this time Michael Martin was standing as Speaker. In 1997 Labour polled 22534 votes. In 2001, 16053 votes. In 2005, 15153 votes. In the by-election,...
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 14/11/2009
When he was elected Commons Speaker in June John Bercow promised a "clean break" from the discredited regime of his predecessor Michael Martin.
Obsolete (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009
The story of the Glasgow North East by-election is not that Labour won an overwhelming victory , although it would have been if they'd lost, in what is a modern rotten borough for the party. It also isn't that the Conservatives received only 1,075 votes , or indeed that the British National Party was only 62 votes behind, although it might be if Chris Dillow's observation that heroin is probably more...
Boulton (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009
Elections Expert Professor Michael Thrasher analyses Labour's victory in the Glasgow North East by-election: Labour's success at the Glasgow North East by-election has given it fresh hope that it may yet give the Conservatives a fight at next year's General Election. The seat, vacated by the former speaker Michael Martin, is one of the party's safest but so was Glasgow East which it lost to the SNP...
The Big Dollop (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009
. The good people of Springburn in Glasgow went to the polls yesterday to elect an MP in a by-election for the Glasgow North East constituency brokered by the resignation of the then speaker of the House of Commons – Michael Martin. The by election was as it turned out, a forgone conclusion when the labour candidate Willie Bain was elected with what on paper would seem to indicate a handsome...
The Independent (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009
At first glance the Glasgow North East by-election result was stupendous for Labour. The party did not just defend with ease a seat that socially is almost identical to next door Glasgow East, a seat it had lost spectacularly to the SNP only last year. Its candidate actually managed to win 6 per cent more of the vote than former Speaker, Michael Martin, secured in 2005. That makes it Labour's best...
Left Foot Forward (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009
Labour’s Willie Bain has won the Glasgow North East by-election, five months after Michael Martin resigned as Speaker. The result saw Labour record a majority of more than 8,000 over the SNP, securing 59.4 per cent of the vote. The election saw a record low turnout for any Scottish election of ...
Politics.ie (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009
Interesting to note that in a praise poem to Michael Martin in yesterday's Evening Herald, Ganley is stated to have represented the far right in in ...
Musings from Medway (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009
A "resounding victory" for the people of Glasgow North East last night as they overwhelmingly backed the Economic recovery by supporting Willie Bain and seeing off an SNP and Conservative challenge. The contest was sparked by Michael Martin's resignation as Commons Speaker in the wake of the MP expenses scandal. Willie Bain won with 12,231 votes - a majority of 8,111 - while the SNP came...
Irfan Ahmed (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009
A massive victory for the Labour party who won the seat that was previously represented in Parliament by Michael Martin with 59% of the vote. Labour clearly has shown the world that if they set their mind to it, anything is possible. Moving on from the celebration by me and others that the SNP or the Tories didn't get in let me point you towards the result for the BNP and the Tories. The BNP got 4.9%...
Aye We Can ! (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009
Glasgow North East was a dreadful result for the SNP and a pretty good one for Labour. Cast your minds back to last May when Michael Martin announced his resignation and ask yourself if there would have been a single person in Scotland predicting Labour would out poll the SNP by 3 to 1 in this by-election? Cast your minds back further to July 2008 when the SNP won in the neighbouring, and near identical...
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