William Campbell

Former Labour councillor and SP/GE candidate. Organist, musician, G and S enthusiast. (Retweets not always endorsements if interesting contributions to debate.)

[William Campbell @WCampbellDunfN]

I’m pinning this tweet. I can see myself sharing it on a daily basis!

[Anas Sarwar @AnasSarwar]

And the SNP think it doesn’t matter if the Tories win again...

[Steve Sayers 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿in🇬🇧=👍🏼 @SteveSayersOne]

#ProUK 🧵 This is (typically) a downright lie, from him, the SNP, their support & nationalists in general. They think we don’t understand how #Scexit polling works. I’ve not done an update since January, but here’s one from today.
Check all the images & bear in mind that single polls are meaningless & trends are everything.
Also remember that the don’t knows in polls split 80/20 to the status quo position in an actual vote. Also recognise that the Yes/No question, regardless of what the SNP ScotGov say, will never be used again & that when the Remain/Leave question is used there is a minus 5% shift to Yes & a +5% to No. Factor all this in (as well as the SNP’s own internal target to facilitate a ‘Yes’ vote is to be 60% in the polls for a year) & look carefully at the data in the thread below. Short synopsis, there is NO majority support for breaking up our UK.

[William Campbell @WCampbellDunfN]

@mitaryousei Have just eaten here. Delicious food and incredible value.

[William Campbell @WCampbellDunfN]

@lewis_goodall The manifesto could be clear that a confirmatory referendum would be held in short measure, as the Devolution ones were in 1997, thus limiting the time for the question to suck all of the air out of politics.
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[William Campbell @WCampbellDunfN]

@lewis_goodall The risk of saying “no referendum” is that it would drive away anti-EU voters. Salmond understood in 2011 that being able to say that Independence wasn’t on the ballot in the election.
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[William Campbell @WCampbellDunfN]

@GraemeDownieMP @FrankieRTR @MacDougallMSP Difficult to exaggerate how let down those of us feel who bust a gut trying to get her elected as a Labour MSP in 2021. And if she had made the 2024 shortlist for Westminster, who knows where we’d be now? With a Reform MP in Kirkcaldy? #lucky_escape

[William Campbell @WCampbellDunfN]

@OptimisticLyon @Wilson34David I’m former because I quit while I was ahead!

[William Campbell @WCampbellDunfN]

@SuellaBraverman Says a (discredited) former Attorney General and Home Secretary!

[William Campbell @WCampbellDunfN]

@darrengrimes I see the parliamentary enquiry has reopened already! Roll on the next by-election!

[William Campbell @WCampbellDunfN]

@BBCRadio3 I am quietly cursing you for even mentioning the word “earworm”. It switched on the Boccherini Minuet, and it won’t go away! Grrr…

Willie Campbell
Dunfermline

[William Campbell @WCampbellDunfN]

@BenGrahamUK He believed that they would dance to his tune. Why should they? When the real by-election happens later in the year it will be a very different story!

[William Campbell @WCampbellDunfN]

@ewangibbs If a potential leader can’t command the genuine support of two colleagues they’re not going to be secure when the going gets tough.

[William Campbell @WCampbellDunfN]

@BBCRadio3 Trees, folk tunes, remembering… The Rowan Tree, one of the most haunting Scottish melodies surely fits the bill perfectly. (It’s a beautiful setting of words by Lady Nairne, a contemporary of Burns.)
Willie Campbell
Dunfermline

[William Campbell @WCampbellDunfN]

@NadineDorries You are repeating a mistake others have made. The 1997 leadership election took place after the Tories left office so Howard was no longer her boss in the Home Office. But it was the experience of having him as a boss that informed her comment.

[William Campbell @WCampbellDunfN]

@iainjwatson If he was subsequently suspended for 10 days it would be up to the people of Clacton whether or not he should be subject recalled.

[William Campbell @WCampbellDunfN]

@euanmccolm Ian Hislop would be brilliant.Farage wants a by-election where the issue is him and his behaviour! But would he be prepared to risk winning?

[William Campbell @WCampbellDunfN]

@LukeTryl He wants a by-election focused on himself and his behaviour. Would Ian Hislop take that on? (He’d have to be prepared to win, though…)

[William Campbell @WCampbellDunfN]

@Casey1972 @Peston Time for Ian Hislop to step forward?

[William Campbell @WCampbellDunfN]

@RestIsPolitics @campbellclaret @mehdirhasan Time for a suitable independent to step up! Ian Hislop would give him the runaround… But could he risk winning?

[William Campbell @WCampbellDunfN]

@robfordmancs Time to recruit an independent who will give him the runaround. Carol Voderman maybe too anti-Brexit. How about Ian Hislop?