When Sky Information got here and interviewed me, there have been varied requests and recommendations for PBisms I may attempt to slip into the package deal. I failed.
However within the early hours of this morning, after listening to the ANME outcome from the returning officer, we had been requested to point out no signal or share any remark about the results of what had been a really tight race.
I couldn’t resist making a refined gesture to a pre-planned stunt as I handed our encampment. And so it was that because the outcome was learn out and the SNP and Tory supporters in entrance reacted in real shock, there have been a few LDs consuming literal baggage of popcorn.
The marketing campaign in Aberdeenshire North and Moray East was brutal. The political assassination of Tory MP David Duguid which bought us began. The blue-on-blue bills scandal story leaked by Banff and Buchan Tories towards their new candidate. The smear which took out the Labour candidate. The smear which adorned the entrance web page of the Scottish Each day Mail which tried – and failed – to take out the Reform candidate. The tried smear towards me which didn’t get printed however bought talked about in passing in one other piece as if it had run.
On Fb? The cybernats known as me a nonce. A twat. A wanker. A gype. A rocket. A cnut. A colonialist. That I put on jackboots to crush Scots. Infinite calls for that I “go home”, “piss off back doon south”. And but, regardless of their pyrrhic victory right here, they’ve been crushed in order that they match right into a minibus. Or is {that a} motorhome?
I’ll write a second thread about prospects in Scotland in direction of Holyrood 2026. However for now I say this about operating for parliament – what a buzz. I’ve had The Worry. I’ve schmoozed Sky Information in order that I used to be the one candidate proven in a optimistic gentle. I debated the chief of the ScotCons and bought the gang applauding me and heckling him.
Because of all my buddies on Political Betting in your assist no matter your political persuasion. It meant quite a bit.
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