amazing result!

[NickInTheNorth]

What a staggering result :

Rob Gibson 13,843 Scottish National Party (SNP) John MacKay 5,438 Scottish Labour Party Edward Brian Stanford Mountain 2,934 Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party Robbie Rowantree 6,385 Scottish Liberal Democrats

[buddyrich]

Good luck everyone. Enjoy what happens with a dunce at the wheel.

[veekay]

Perhaps he will get off his backside and do something - won't be holding my breath though!

[John Little]

Will I have to show my passport at Carter Bar soon?

[pmcd]

Delighted for Rob - he even bothered to take time out for a wee chat in our little village - and he is by no means a dunce. Answered questions well, and without the politician's slickness. Actually gave consideration to his answers, and was clearly not spouting party line. Personable, intelligent, and endowed with a sense of humour. Well done, and well done the SNP. These results are exhilarating!

[Corrie 3]

Well done Rob Gibson and the SNP, all these years the people of Caithness have been voting for the LibDem's who have proved to be nothing other than a party who will jump into bed with anybody for their 5 mins of fame. John Thurso beware, it will be your turn next and well done to the people of Caithness for seeing the light after all these years !

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[buddyrich]

I didnt call Rob Gibson a dunce. His boss most definitely is.

[Cattach]

Good luck everyone. Enjoy what happens with a dunce at the wheel.

Pretty insulting comment all of us who voted for Rob. The electorate has spoken and the cheap jibe bya bad loser tells one more about buddyrick than it does about Rob Gibson or whoever Buddyrick eas referring to.

Good luck, Rob. It was the overwhelming wish of the people as cane seen by the margin of the win.

[lindsaymcc]

Fab news for Caithness! Well done to Rob Gibson.

[teenybash]

Well done SNP........

[buddyrich]

My name is Buddyrich. I said already that i consider his boss a dunce, not him. As for Rib Gobson, well he has an office in Wick but i've never seen him. He put plenty paper through my door but that's it. If you think politics should be free from invective, then stroll on and find something else to occupy you. People who rant as i do are doing it because they feel helpless. The thought of the country leaving the UK and being led by someone with the policies salmond is into is frightening and makes me feel dismayed and helpless. The defining moment for me of the past four years is the trumpeting of 1000 new bobbies, yet a friend of mine who walked into thurso police station after being brutally attacked on olrig street was told there was no one to deal with it, even though the attackers could be seen loitering on the street just down the road.

[weezer 316]

My name is Buddyrich. I said already that i consider his boss a dunce, not him. As for Rib Gobson, well he has an office in Wick but i've never seen him. He put plenty paper through my door but that's it. If you think politics should be free from invective, then stroll on and find something else to occupy you. People who rant as i do are doing it because they feel helpless. The thought of the country leaving the UK and being led by someone with the policies salmond is into is frightening and makes me feel dismayed and helpless. The defining moment for me of the past four years is the trumpeting of 1000 new bobbies, yet a friend of mine who walked into thurso police station after being brutally attacked on olrig street was told there was no one to deal with it, even though the attackers could be seen loitering on the street just down the road.

Agreed. Salmond is an absolute buffoon who will budget 20 years agead assuming oil prices are at $200pb....only for them to drop to $50. He will then blame westminister. Then Westminister again. Then the EU. Then westminster. Then he might, MIGHT revise his budget. Ad infinitum

[buddyrich]

Given that situation, he'd probably say that scotland becoming independent was not his responsibility after all but a ruse by Westminster to make him look stupid. But then again we wont know any of this because there wont be any electricity to watch tv because of his energy policy.

[sids]

Good luck everyone. Enjoy what happens with a dunce at the wheel.

Can dunces not drive properly or something?

[Corrie 3]

Agreed. Salmond is an absolute buffoon who will budget 20 years agead assuming oil prices are at $200pb....only for them to drop to $50. He will then blame westminister. Then Westminister again. Then the EU. Then westminster. Then he might, MIGHT revise his budget. Ad infinitum

What is this Westminister you speak of weezer?..I have never heard of it !
At least the SNP wont ever jump into bed with the Tories, I think Nick Clegg has done a good job in destroying his party!!
Oh !!!...Just got it, you mean Westminster!!!!!!!...Silly me!!!

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[Amy-Winehouse]

I hope Salmond isnt banking on oil money, thanks to the tory governments baffling decision to stick even more tax on the oil companies they have already begun to stop drilling, CNR handed out 90 day notices to the drilling guys on the Murchison platform yesterday - well done . Cant see the wood for the tree`s can they ?

Well done to Ron Gibson- whoever he might be ?

[buddyrich]

What is this Westminister you speak of weezer?..I have never heard of it !
At least the SNP wont ever jump into bed with the Tories, I think Nick Clegg has done a good job in destroying his party!!
Oh !!!...Just got it, you mean Westminster!!!!!!!...Silly me!!!

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Exhausted of arguements and anything relevant to say, the intellectually defeated always turn to grammar and spelling as easy targets.


DUNCE-a person incapable of learning. Would you like someone incapable of learning to be in control of your car, literal or otherwise?

[weezer 316]

What is this Westminister you speak of weezer?..I have never heard of it !
At least the SNP wont ever jump into bed with the Tories, I think Nick Clegg has done a good job in destroying his party!!
Oh !!!...Just got it, you mean Westminster!!!!!!!...Silly me!!!

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Jumped into bed! This is politics, not football. The tories have the right idea, hence the reason they won the general election. Quite simply we must deal with the deficit. Alex couldnt care less about that sort of nonsense!

And Amy-winehouse - I cant believe for a second they raised a tax against big coporations! It must be a media ruse that you are buying, has to be!! They couldnt possibly have done that

Last sentence was in sarcastic b****** font

[RecQuery]

...The tories have the right idea, hence the reason they won the general election...

It's a cheap jibe, but presumably the SNP have the right idea for Scotland and that's why they won (I assume the current trend will continue when other constituencies and regions declare) both the FPTP and the PR element of the vote.

[pmcd]

The SNP is refreshing. It ran a positive campaign. It didn't promise a free unicorn to each punter.

Real home truths. It is not in Scotland's DNA to vote Conservative, as Tories ALL go to Eton, are effete upper-class twits with half a cutlery cabinet in their gobs, and eat their own children. (Dundee, Beano, Lord Snooty - you've got a lot to answer for!) The Liberals are nice and cuddly, and don't harm a flea as long as they continue to hold their conferences in telephone kiosks, and are split nicely between the bearded loons and the middle-class tree-huggers.
Scotland, on a good day, likes the Labour Party. After all, it is the party of the working man. Though cowards flinch at costly beer, they'll keep the Red Flag flying here. Blair took the country into an illegal war, then lied about WMD, and they STILL voted the tosser in for another round!

But this time, even the Liberals and the Labourites began to work out that their parties weren't delivering.

Clegg was almost smoother than Cameron, and turning bluer and weaker by the day.

And the Milliphant man had even, yay, done the dirty unto his brother, and sounded like a nasal clever dick, and looked like Wallace (not William, but as with Gromit). So people pointed fingers at his startled nasal whinings, which he used to tell the people what the others were doing wrong - but not what HE and the flagging flaggers were going to do right.

And so the people exercised their democratic right. And the fifty odd percent who didn't bother voting deserve whatever good (or bad) awaits them. But it feels refreshing that a system explicitly designed (by the Labour Party) to make a simple majority in Holyrood impossible came back to bite them in the bum. Kirkcaldy result (SNP) put the cap on it just now!