LINLITHGOW
Winner in 2016: Fiona Hyslop (SNP) IF you ever doubt the power of the Boundary Commission, just remember that they’re responsible for the fact that we have a “West Lothian Question” rather than a “Linlithgow Question”.
Labour’s Tam Dalyell was Westminster MP for West Lothian when he first posed his question about the contradictions inherent in a system of asymmetric devolution, and it wasn’t until 1983 that his constituency was redrawn and renamed as Linlithgow, which became the basis for the current Holyrood constituency. Dalyell faced a very different West Lothian Question of his own for many years – whether or not he’d be able to hold his seat against an SNP challenge. He was first elected in 1962 in a landmark by-election that saw the SNP, at that time a fringe party, surge into second place out of nowhere.
Alex Salmond s Alba Party: who are they and do they pose a threat in the Scottish elections?
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ANGUS North and Mearns is a composite constituency that stretches into the Aberdeenshire council area. That means it includes a part of the old West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine seat, which the SNP never even came close to winning. Mike Rumbles of the Liberal Democrats claimed it in 1999, 2003 and 2007, with his only real scare coming from a Tory challenge on the first of those occasions. (That said, the SNP went on to briefly hold the Westminster constituency of the same name, which was never abolished.) But the bulk of Angus North and Mearns is comprised of very long-standing SNP territory from the old Angus and North Tayside seats.
For deputy SNP leader Jim Sillars has backed the Alba Party THE FORMER deputy leader of the SNP has declared his support for the Alba Party – insisting that the “arithmetic is incontestable” to back Alex Salmond’s new party on the list vote. Jim Sillars, who was a Labour MP in the 1970s, joined the SNP in 1980 and won the 1988 Glasgow Govan by-election for the party before becoming deputy leader of the SNP. The news is not a huge shock given his comments after the formation of the Alba Party last month, in which Mr Sillars said Mr Salmond’s new project “gives the independence voters a party that is not the SNP - which many, including me, with justification, believe is tainted with political corruption, and which is grossly incompetent in a whole range of its activities”.
For deputy SNP leader Jim Sillars has backed the Alba Party THE FORMER deputy leader of the SNP has declared his support for the Alba Party – insisting that the “arithmetic is incontestable” to back Alex Salmond’s new party on the list vote. Jim Sillars, who was a Labour MP in the 1970s, joined the SNP in 1980 and won the 1988 Glasgow Govan by-election for the party before becoming deputy leader of the SNP. The news is not a huge shock given his comments after the formation of the Alba Party last month, in which Mr Sillars said Mr Salmond’s new project “gives the independence voters a party that is not the SNP - which many, including me, with justification, believe is tainted with political corruption, and which is grossly incompetent in a whole range of its activities”.
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