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It occurred to ma as I was walking back from my meeting that if what I posted above about the SNP knowing their support and turning it out is true and not just bullshitting to stop me asking awkward questions, then they should be able to say what the result is almost as soon as the turnout is known. Leaving us in the dark for another couple of hours. Still it will have it's compensations like some above minimum price alcoholic beverage and an excuse to sit up and drink it.

Glasgow North East byelection – live

Raining heavily now.

Isn't it strange that the Labour party are saying:

"Some readers have suggested that Bain did not vote today because he is not registered in the constituency.

I put that to the Labour press office and got a scathing response:

No, this is absolutely untrue and a claim that some SNP supporters have been desperate to make. Willie is on the electoral register [address in Glasgow given] and has been since 1991/2 and I will happily send you a copy to see if you wish … Any claim of that nature would be wholly untrue in every respect. He does not own or rent any other property anywhere in the UK and has never been on the electoral register anywhere else. He has voted by post already, but visited his local polling station with his dad this morning.

Bain does work at London South Bank university, staying in London "a couple of nights a week in a hotel", according to Labour.

Photograph: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images As this poster shows, how "local" the candidates are has been a fiercely debated issue in this campaign. Severin Carrell reported on a controversy over the SNP candidate David Kerr's birthplace last week."

And yet I saw his name on the electoral register in Hammersmith & Fulham. I wonder if someone is telling porkies?

Evening all - just finished a rather nice smoked haddock, poached in milk with a knob of butter, cheese sauce, peas and sautéed potatoes. Very nice. It's tipping it down here in the foothills of Auld Reakie and I trust it'll be raining on labour's parade later tonight.

Rage, there's an interestingly concept which I must confess to being familiar with. Take last night for instance. I had read the woolly, weasely words written by the Herald on the by-election. I was left almost speechless by both the coy way they tried to present themselves as "neutral" and at the same time reiterating the whole SNP rips Glasgow off saga. Interestingly Dunwoodie finished by stating (Something like) this campaign theme will resonate for some years to come. Well it will because hardly any labour MP's, MSP etc counseled caution with this line. We even had Brown and Gray joining in with Gray being most active in supporting this line. Why the SNP didn't ram it back down their throats I don't know, I can only assume that the press wouldn't publish the rebuttals. Which leads in nicely to another rage. Isn't democracy wonderful - when it's the version being peddled by the newspapers of course - a even playing field would be nice but even the self styled "Scotland's leading quality daily" fails miserably at times like these. Today's headline is to me, another example of the woolly weasely words. “Public Snub for finale of Scotland's culture year” and then drag the SNP into it as if they were somehow responsible for the politcalisation of the event (labour stand up and take a bow). Grrrrr

Anyway it's hissing down and I'm away to take my son and lovely Zimbabwean daughter-in-law ( who knows a bit or three about dodgy politicians) up to their house - back later

22:07 Blether with Brian still not open. Anybody know if we'll have to wait until he posts again?

handclapping wrote:22:07 Blether with Brian still not open. Anybody know if we'll have to wait until he posts again?

Making the changes is open but might bring the wrath of the mods if we started posting.

new blog open
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/thereporters ... ction.html

Here we go again, the SNP didn't have a campaign - it's all their fault - it was a negative campaign but the SNP should have done better because the country is going to hell in a hand cart and they should have been tallking about that rather than where their candidate lived. Help ma boab the arc of insolvency is now being brought up.

Over now to the BNP and what security is like at the count - well done Glen Campbelly.