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Listed below are comments made by Keith_Legg_Fife between Thursday, 2nd October 2008 and Friday, 7th November 2008.

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Glenrothes by-election 09:04am on 07 Nov 2008 I'm not worried about the Lib Dem result. I suspect that what's happened is some previously Lib Dem voters have gone to Labour to stop the SNP; others have gone to the SNP to stop Labour; and some will simply have stayed at home knowing that the Lib Dem candidate was unlikely to win (you'd have to be really dedicated to go out in the weather we had in Fife yesterday!)

Unlike Dunfermline and NE Fife, the Lib Dems have never had a presence here - only one councillor in the last 20 years or so has come from the area (Markinch) and he had a local, personal vote which kept him in. Saying the Lib Dems are on the point of collapse on the back of this by-election result is like saying that Labour would never win the General Election because the Lib Dems won a by-election in Cornwall.

It's the SNP who should really be more worried about this result. If they can't take this kind of seat from Labour then they're not going to make the progress they need to at the General Election - remember, in 2005 the Lib Dems had more second places across Scotland than the SNP did!
Calling time 12:44pm on 02 Oct 2008 The SNP government miss the point that the attitude to drinking in Scotland is primarily a social one. If you want to change people's behaviour, it's got to be looked at and researched on that basis - simply restricting supply either through age limits (which aren't rigorously enough enforced now) or tougher licensing won't work.

It's a much, much wider issue than the SNP proposals suggest.

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