Glasgow East latest
Written by Andrew Reeves on 6th July 2008 – 5:48 pmWell, they say a week is a long time in politics! Wednesday saw the shock resignation of our Scottish Party Leader, Nicol Stephen, on Thursday we selected East End Ian Robertson for the Glasgow East by-election and then on Friday Labour selected nobody because the favourite didn’t turn up … you couldn’t make this up, could you?
The Liberal Democrats have a great candidate in Ian Robertson, a great campaign office at 888 Shettleston Road, Glasgow, G32 7XN and a fantastic team coming together.
If you look at the posters on the lampposts it really is only the SNP and the Liberal Democrats who are putting up a fight. Labour are just nowhere and Salmond’s Little Helpers in Holyrood, AKA Annabel’s Tories, are just making up the numbers.
If you would like to follow Ian’s campaign, just go to www.glasgoweastlibdems.org.uk and you can follow Ian on Twitter via twitter.com/ianrobertson
To read more about Labour’s candidate selection problems, see The Herald’s report - Labour disarray over by-election candidate
Tags: glasgow east by-election, nicol stephen
Posted in Parliamentary by-elections 22 Comments »
7th July 2008 at 9:39 am
We’re not getting very good coverage on the BBC news site, the Scotland section has David Cameron’s visit as its leading item. We’ve only got a token mention, despite finishing ahead of the Conservatives last time.
Is Nick Clegg going to be visiting at some point?
8th July 2008 at 12:00 am
And yet whilst the Labour party has suspended its leadership contest until after the by election ours continues with yet 2 more candidates announcing.
We really don’t look like we are taking this by election seriously,
8th July 2008 at 12:52 am
We didn’t suspend the leadership election the last time there was a Scottish by-election
8th July 2008 at 10:41 pm
There is no chance of the LibDems winning this seat – they have no track record in glasgow. It will either be a narrow Labour hold or an SNP win
9th July 2008 at 12:24 am
Munro – um wrong. Hillhead ring any bells?
Robert Brown and Chris Mason who for nearly ten years were the only non Labour councillors in the City?
9th July 2008 at 7:22 pm
It seems the tenor and tone of this by-election is a battle between the heart and the backbone of the left – also to be known as ‘Curran vs Curran’.
This is looking worse and worse for Labour – I read they only have a couple of dozen active members in the area.
10th July 2008 at 11:37 pm
So when were Brown and chris Mason councillors as neieher are now and SNP’s john Mason has been a councillor since winning a by election in 1998 – ie 10 yra ago. the SNP has 22 cllrs in Glasgow to the LibDems 5
Hillhead is different from East as its large student community was ripe for Jenkins but East has no such community
12th July 2008 at 10:47 am
The SNP canaidater has been described as a running a bullying campaign against her by SNP hero Dorothy Grace Elder. Is thhis guy really right to be an MP.
http://news.scotsman.com/politics/Former-SNP-figure–attacks.4273464.jp
12th July 2008 at 11:57 am
This YouGov poll in Scotland has the Lib Dems at 14%, down 9 points from 2005:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/scotland/2281959/Only-third-of-Scots-favour-independence.html
If reproduced at Glasgow East, that would leave us with a lost deposit, in fourth (or perhaps fifth) place.
12th July 2008 at 1:29 pm
“Lib Dem whip broke postage rules”
Interesting that this scandal does not feature on your web-site!!!!
12th July 2008 at 3:01 pm
Scampi – it’s almost as interesting as why you mention the headline, but not the content of the story. Perhaps you could try to enlighten us rather than making an effort to score points with spin.
13th July 2008 at 1:18 am
The Telegraph reports the first poll, by ICM, in Glasgow East:
Lab 47
SNP 33
Lib Dem 9
Con 7
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/labour/2298732/Labour-set-for-victory-in-Glasgow-East-by-election,-poll-shows.html
13th July 2008 at 1:22 am
Or, as the editors of this site would no doubt express it, a swing of 5% from Labour to the Lib Dems.
Yipppeeee!
13th July 2008 at 10:57 pm
I know john mason well and the last thing he can be descibed is as a bully – he is always cheery and helpful. DGE fell out with many in party – usuaully because she did not like people who disagreed with her.
13th July 2008 at 11:00 pm
It is clear that te Galsgow East seat is a two horse Labour/SNP race with rest fighting to protect their desposts. this change in a week suggests sNP can win with 10 days to go
14th July 2008 at 12:34 am
Monro – Christopher Mason is still a Lib Dem councillor in Glasgow (assuming it isn’t a different person with the same name!)
14th July 2008 at 2:03 am
Is this Munro (or Monro as Huwel prefers) just one of the SNP sockies that afflicts every newspaper in Scotland?
If a woman former-MSP who is now SSP – Labour haters – says that Mason bullied her then I’ll believe that however soft he appears to his own sockies.
This former SNP goes further and says that Margaret Curran played fair with her whereas her own party colleague No Mates Mason constantly sought to undermine her.
16th July 2008 at 12:56 pm
DGe made no attempt ti fit and was effectivley an Independent
25th July 2008 at 11:16 pm
cut out the wishie-washieness, Scotland is a nation – with a lot to be proud of. you people are ignorant about the Scottish, the ability of the Scots and how we are ruled and robbed by a 3rd rate people.
try and educate yourselves and stop being ideolistic.
26th July 2008 at 12:10 am
Niall – you’re right Scotland is a nation with a lot to be proud of – but you’re a miserable whinging erse of the worst Gnat variety…
26th July 2008 at 11:28 pm
So what happened to your hopes of victory?
3rd August 2008 at 2:33 am
didn’t realise that you new me Dan!?
anyway – Scotland will be independent again.
a nation – like Norway or Iceland – which will prosper & not just because of oil revenue.
we might even get news on Europe when we have a down to earth media.
open your eyes!