Ian Robertson selected for Glasgow East
Glasgow Liberal Democrats have chosen local teacher Ian Robertson to be the party’s candidate in the parliamentary by-election on July 24th. The full press release is on the Glasgow East Liberal...
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Just three and a half weeks after moving to Edinburgh to take up my new post as Deputy Director of Campaigns for Scotland, I find myself involved in another major election campaign! We have selected...
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Well, 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...
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The poll from The Daily Telegraph shows Labour holding the seat with the Liberal Democrats in third place, but importantly ahead of the Tories. This has been an interesting campaign and one where there...
View ArticleGlasgow East Lib Dem candidate “one to watch”
There’s high praise for the Lib Dems’ Glasgow East candidate Ian Robertson in The Herald today: Yesterday he had Scots grandees Sir Menzies Campbell and Lord Wallace in to help, plus deputy leader...
View ArticleOpen (speculation) thread: What do you think will happen in Glagow East – and...
What is it about parliamentary by-elections? You wait ages for one, then four come along at once. Hot-on-the-heels of Crewe and Nantwich, Henley and Haltemprice & Howden is Glasgow East,...
View ArticleSNP win in Glasgow East
The result: SNP 11,277 43.1% (+26.1%) Labour 10,912 41.7% (-19.0) Conservative 1,639 6.3% (-0.6) Liberal Democrat 915 3.5% (-8.3) Majority 365 1.4% Turnout 42.3% (-6.0)
View ArticleGlasgow East and the Lib Dems
Well, let’s not pretend it was a great result: losing three-quarters of your support is rarely likely to cheer a party up. But it would be equally silly to read anything of great significance into it,...
View ArticleThe question isn’t: ‘Should Labour replace Gordon Brown?’ It’s ‘Why would...
Last night’s stunning SNP victory in Glasgow East caps one of the worst six months for the Labour party in at least 25 years. Policy gaffes and u-turns; a deeply unpopular leader; and catastrophic...
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