Tag: polling day
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Homeward Bound
Well I had my wish and walked, carefree, on Westport beach. I picked up a heart-shaped stone as a memento, and gazed across at the coast of Antrim, the Emerald Isle glistening out of dissipating mist. As soon as I’d realised I was up against 4 locals—all knowledgeable about the area, intimately connected through kith…
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Leafleting
It’s 6pm and polling closes in 4 hours so I’ve headed back to base for a refuelling stop. Here’s my thoughts on leafleting. Because time presses, it’s most self-plagiarised from my last by-election campaign blog but with some adaptations for leafleting in South Kintyre which I’ve now done on three separate visits, this last time…
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What now for Scotland?
Stuck on the eastern shore of Loch Fyne—by wind, weather and a technical problem with the ferry due west to Tarbert—I thought I was doing the sensible thing by waiting for updates from CalMac. About half an hour (if that) drive-on-drive-off made much more sense than driving east to Tighnabruaich, north to Glendaruel (I have…