Party political post
(Scottish Election press.: Glasgow, Scotland)
Summer came to an abrupt end for us in Glasgow, quite as suddenly as it arrived. The now unfamiliar rain lashed down just in time to greet the elections. I voted yesterday in the Scottish Parliament Election which has been making big news here in Britain. There are “VOTE YES” and “VOTE NO” signs everywhere I look and some of the campaigners have been scooting around the neighbourhoods in vans these past days with music blaring and a megaphone calling people to vote. Thankfully now I will just have to wait and see if anything has changed by the time I wake up.
Anyway, my picture for the day; to explain what I have done here, the top image shows the total amount of political material that has come through my letterbox over the past month or so. I kept all of it so I could look through it and come to a sensible decision, but it is mostly such airy propaganda that I cannot compare them. I settled for research on the internet to make my final choices. Right, as you can see, there are six parties that have been flyering; clockwise from top left is The Scottish Unionist Party, Scottish Labour, Scottish Liberal Democrats, the Conservatives, the Scottish National Party and the Green Party. It is basically the usual suspects with a couple of underdogs thrown in, I was so surprised to discover I had collected such a wealth of paper that I wanted to show you all of it. These were not left lazily at the bottom of the stairs in the close, mind you, but actually posted by hand right through my door on the second floor. Anyway, once I had photographed the entire paper trail, I wondered how they would look if they were to be entered into an FTP (first past the post) situation where the party with the most votes (or in this case, printed paper) wins. The image at the bottom is that very race showing that even with a meagre 26%* of the paper, Scottish Labour wins by a hair, the SNP sneaking up behind them. It was a not unexpected win, though I had suspected that the SNP might just pip them to the post. I seem to recollect more of that party’s ephemera sitting in the kitchen where it seems to have been breeding. Well, that’s all the voting excitement over for another year, be it genuine ones or judging paper weight per party. You’ll be happy to know I shall be recycling all of it.
* approximately measured with a ruler andcalculated into a percentage.
If this post looks out of alignment – apologies. I have no idea why or how to fix it! Hopefully it is just on my screen.
– Today Rosie is working on her NHS project in Glasgow, Scotland –
We are voting tomorrow! After so many years.
It is the first time Ying has the chance to vote at a general election,