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Little's Log (Free subscription) | yesterday
Please do click and see this classic - here - from the LibDems in the Glenrothes by-election. The party has been going down the plughole recently and coming 4th in Glasgow East, behind the Tories, has really stung the party. Although they are not likely to do so badly this time they have a very uninspiring choice of candidate. So back to the bar chart - "In Fife it's a two horse race...
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The Herald (Free subscription) | yesterday
... in what can only have been an attempt to deter betting after the bookies took a hit in Glasgow East.These odds have since eased slightly but the SNP remain favourites, an uncomfortable position for them given the size of the majority they are chasing - so they too insist they are underdogs, even though they took the equivalent seat at Holyrood 18 months ago.Labour want to lower expectations...
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Scotsman.com (Free subscription) | 11/10/2008
Alexander McKay (Letters, 9 October ) is right that the turnout at the Glasgow East by-election was low. As this was deliberately engineered by the decision of the La
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The Herald (Free subscription) | yesterday
... hold a 10,500 majority in the seat, but this is smaller than that which the SNP overturned to win Glasgow East in the summer.
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The 'Our Scotland' Blog (Free subscription) | 09/10/2008
It was once famously said that a week is a long time in politics. Well if a week is a long time, then a couple of months must be a lifetime. Just think back to the height of summer, or as we call it in Scotland – the mild part of winter. Back then in July, just after John Mason won Glasgow East, Gordon Brown was teetering on the brink. Nobody knew if he would make it through one week...
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Intute: Social Sciences Blog (Free subscription) | 10/10/2008
... on the administration of the 2008 by-elections Crewe & Nantwich, Henley, Haltemprice & Howden and Glasgow East by-elections Administrative Burdens Reduction Programme, 2008 National Audit Office report. Housing Corporation: Affordable housing in London research paper. Back to Front: Efficiency of back office functions in local government Audit Commission report. Taking the Long-term...
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News Scotsman (Free subscription) | 09/10/2008
... SNP need a 13.8 per cent swing to take the seat – well below the 22.5 per cent they achieved in Glasgow East. And a poll in the constituency last month found Labour and the SNP neck and neck.Former Glenrothes MP John MacDougall died in August after a long battle against the lung disease mesothelioma.But Labour was in no rush to call a by-election to replace him. In its two previous...
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Edinburgh Evening News (Free subscription) | 09/10/2008
... SNP need a 13.8 per cent swing to take the seat – well below the 22.5 per cent they achieved in Glasgow East. And a poll in the constituency last month found Labour and the SNP neck and neck.Former Glenrothes MP John MacDougall died in August after a long battle against the lung disease mesothelioma.But Labour was in no rush to call a by-election to replace him. In its two previous...
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Jon Worth (Free subscription) | 07/10/2008
Gordon Brown nominated Baroness Ashton to be European Commissioner after Peter Mandelson returned to UK government. The reason is clear enough - Brown did not want a by-election that Labour might loose after the Crewe and Glasgow East debacles. After the first reaction (who is Baroness Ashton), thoughts turned to the porfolio she would be [...]
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Scotsman.com (Free subscription) | 09/10/2008
Ross Lydall contrasts this with the need for a quick poll in Glasgow East in July (Debate & Opinion, 8 October); he might have mentioned, too, the almost indecent haste with which elections were called in Dunfermline West in February 2006, in Crewe ADVERTISEMENTand Nantwich earlier this year, or in Sedgefield last year when Tony Blair decided to stand down. Certainly this autumn, the...
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News Scotsman (Free subscription) | 07/10/2008
... over the US elections, which will take place two days beforehand.SNP MP Mike Weir said: "In Glasgow East Labour held a snap by-election hoping voters were on holiday, and now in Fife they are hoping to bury the by-election in the aftermath of the US presidential election."The SNP is hoping for a repeat of its Glasgow East triumph, where it captured a nominally safe Labour...
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Scotsman.com (Free subscription) | 07/10/2008
... over the US elections, which will take place two days beforehand.SNP MP Mike Weir said: "In Glasgow East Labour held a snap by-election hoping voters were on holiday, and now in Fife they are hoping to bury the by-election in the aftermath of the US presidential election."The SNP is hoping for a repeat of its Glasgow East triumph, where it captured a nominally safe Labour...
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Caron's Musings (Free subscription) | 05/10/2008
So John Prescott has the misfortune to turn up at Glasgow Central Station just at the same time as a proud SNP Crowd is waving their new member for Glasgow East, John Mason, off on his first trip to the House of Commons. He gave them a gesture that can only be described as rude. I would say from having watched the clip here that the dishonour is fairly equal. Sure, Prescott should...
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The Herald (Free subscription) | 07/10/2008
... but one poll put the parties neck and neck in Glenrothes.John Mason, the newly elected SNP MP for Glasgow East, took his seat in the House of Commons yesterday, hours before the Glenrothes date was declared. Mr Mason won the Glasgow East by-election on 24 July, overturning a Labour majority of 13,507.Mr Mason was watched by his family in the visitors gallery and cheered...
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Scotsman.com (Free subscription) | 08/10/2008
... for the Fife by-election was fixed officially as 6 November.Mr Brown did not campaign in July's Glasgow East by-election, won by the SNP, and it was argued oADVERTISEMENTn his behalf that a convention prevented prime ministers from doing so.That convention is recent because it did not stop Tony Blair campaigning in by- elections when he was prime minister.But the Glenrothes constituency...
