By-election: Who’s Who and What’s What?

In order to vote in the South Kintyre by-election, you’ll need to be registered: here’s how to do that!

The deadline for registering to vote in the Argyll and Bute Council by-election is Tuesday 17 October 2023.

South Kintyre by-election

In this election, you can vote when you’re 16 or over on polling day (the day of the election) and you can do that in one of 3 ways:

• vote by post – the deadline to apply for this is 5pm on Wednesday 18th October 2023
• vote by proxy (someone votes for you) – the deadline to apply for this is 5pm on Wednesday 25 October 2023
• vote in person, at your designated polling station, on Thursday 2nd November 2023

Remember that, if you’re voting in person (either using your own vote or on behalf of someone else) you’ll need photo ID for this election. Here’s what you can use. (You don’t need photo ID for a postal vote – but remember that deadline’s different!)

Apart from me (Alan MCMANUS, For Future’s Sake – Freedom Alliance) there should be four other names on the ballot paper (surname first, middle names may be included and name of party written in full):

• Joe CUNNINGHAM, Tories
• Jennifer KELLY, Independent
• Kenny MACKENZIE, Lib Dems
• John RICHARDSON, SNP

Why should you vote for me and not for them?

Well, Freedom Alliance isn’t in the habit of telling people what to do. We’re for freedom – do what you want! (Within reason.) Anyway, no-one will know who you vote for (unless you tell someone) so it really is up to you!

I don’t know any of these people and you probably do – so it would be very silly (and quite rude) for me to presume to tell anyone in South Kintyre about them, as individuals. This political commentator sees a family connection between the Independent candidate and the outgoing councillor – and a political connection between that gentleman and the Conservative party. So (perhaps) there may be Tory policies being endorsed by more than one candidate.

Now, we may perhaps be wary of a supposedly independent political commentator whose day job is Senior Policy Officer for an organisation heavily funded by the Scottish Government – and I have raised an official concern about this kind of ‘prediction’ because it feels like nudging voters towards any candidate in favour of a pervasive establishment agenda that crosses party lines.

What am I talking about?

• a clampdown on free speech.
• surveillance online, in shops and on the street.
• a fake environmentalism that destroys livelihoods and doesn’t deal with real problems like sewage on beaches and plastic pollution in the sea.
• a patronising and divisive victim-culture along lines of race, sex and sexuality that sets each of us against our neighbours.
• a worrying trend of ignoring the physical safety of women and girls from predatory men – in shelters, hospital wards and any place where they undress – for fear of causing emotional upset.
• the progressive replacement of human personnel and decision-making with artificial intelligence.

Let me give you some examples:

• a son who reports his mother to the police for a remark at the family dinner table about an influx of a large group of single young men from North Africa to a very small village – and her subsequent arrest for ‘hate speech’.
• an old lady unable to shop at a supermarket for lack of a smartphone
• fish full of plastic and bathers catching cholera after swimming while farmers can only get grants to slaughter their herds and rewild their arable land.
• parents from LGBT-affirming kirks uneasy with transvestite men insisting on accessing children’s storytime in schools and the local library but too afraid to speak out for fear of being called ‘bigots’.
• girls giving up on sport and afraid to use the toilet in school, women avoiding the leisure centre and fearful of going into hospital – to be told that this is a non-problem.
• disabled travellers deciding to stay at home rather than face the hassle – and danger – of understaffed railways stations and no way to get on or off the train.

Let me say that I am absolutely not accusing any of these good people – nor anyone in their parties – of attempting to further the destruction of humanity or the environment. That’s not the way these things are dressed up by the social engineers of the industrial complex (digital, medical, pharmaceutical and military) who insert these narratives so smoothly into news and fictional stories that we hardly notice. It al sounds lovely and – when the ugly truth breaks through – there’s always something to distract us.

Who will remember now that the Scottish Government gave away £65 million pounds of tax-payer money to an East European puppet government engaged in a proxy war in order to buy bombs to kill and maim? Who will pay attention to the claims that armaments were resold on the black market, smuggled out of the country and are now wreaking destruction in the Holy Land?

Don’t be distracted by the latest thing. A week may be a long time in politics but four years is even longer. Make sure that you vote for someone with an eye on the longterm – and make sure you like what their party is planning for your future!

On a lighter note, pages 3 and 4 of this Guide explain that in Scottish Local Council elections you can rank the candidates. So even if you prefer ‘the devil you know’ and can’t bring yourself to take a chance on an outsider, you can always give me your second vote. The Single Transferable Vote system means that the winning candidate has more of the share of the vote than in the First Past the Post system.

That’s all for now, catch me in Campbeltown and thereabouts on Wednesday and Thursday this week – if all goes to plan!

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Promoted by Cath Evans of Freedom Alliance, 83 Ducie Street M1 2JQ

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