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Hamish Macdonell: Battle of Glasgow East could be a bloody affair



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Published Date: 01 July 2008
By Hamish Macdonell
GLASGOW East could hardly be more Labour if every house was painted pillar-box red. Going round with a Labour candidate in last year's election campaign, I heard a similar message at every door. "I'm going to vote Labour – my father would turn in his grave if I didn't," was the answer from one woman.
"I'm Labour, we've always been Labour, and we're not going to change," said another.

"The SNP? No, I don't think so. I'll go with what I know. I'll vote Labour," said yet another.

Labour managers are confident that, of all the seats in the coun...



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1

a proud doonhamer,

Dumfries 01/07/2008 01:11:59
Mr MacDonnell will you be campaigning on the street for Labour as strongly as you do as a journo. Are you not getting a little tired of trotting out all these twisted tales to try to spin the truth? Why not try to go to the EBC and join the Labour gang?
2

Raj Persaud's ghost writer,

01/07/2008 02:31:43
You get the feeling of sheep to the slaughter. If asked what her father died of I bet it was young for his age and poverty or perprevation linked. But still they vote Labour.


No wonder Des Browne smuggly thinks it's in the bag. It's like watching lemmings year after year , listen to the speaches then march to the cliff with obedience.

3

donald,

glasgow 01/07/2008 07:41:29
"Glasgow East is such a traditional Labour seat that the party should be able to put up a donkey with a red rosette and get it elected, and that is exactly why this by-election is so crucial."

They did and not even Labour's pet Hamster can put a spin on that.
4

gus1940,

Edinburgh 01/07/2008 08:37:34
And I don't suppose the committee members who voted against suspension were acting politically.
5

Linda,

Edinburgh 01/07/2008 08:51:49
Gus 1940, I agree with you.
Hamish should read a good letter in Herald this morning from Janice Thomson,
“It seems to me that Wendy Alexander used the Standards Committee’s mild rebuke as a fig leaf to resign before she was pushed out by her Labour colleagues.
However Douglas Alexander and others who claim that Standards Committee was partisan by merely following the independent ruling of the Standards Commissioner Dr Jim Dyer, should contrast this with the actions of the Labour dominated Westminster Standards Committee which exonerated Nigel Griffiths MP after he had been found guilty by the Standards Commissioner on four counts of mishandling his expenses (Claiming rent from taxpayers on property he owned). The Westminster Standards Commissioner Dr Elizabeth Filken was hounded from office for being too strict on MPs who felt, and still feel, they are part of a gentleman’s club and exempt from public scrutiny. “
6

ThePeter,

Glasgae 01/07/2008 17:09:02
Says it all
A Monkey seat in Glasgow - kept a dump by Labour and then blame everyone else to keep themselves in power

Then a "standards" committee that has no standards..

Unbelievable what the people of this country have to endure from their political "betters". "It wisna me"

 

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