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Adelaide Green Porridge Cafe (Free subscription) | 14/11/2009
From our Scottish Correspondent, Big Rab Bad luck on your result in the Glasgow North East by election Colin. I'm sure with a bit of effort we could have got you more than 13 votes! Charlie Baillie - British National Party - 1,013 votes (4.92%) William Bain - Labour - 12,231 (59.39%) Eileen Baxendale - Liberal Democrats - 474 (2.30%) Mev Brown - Independent - 32 (0.16%) Colin Campbell - The Individuals...
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The Jaggy Thistle- Scotland the barbed (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009
what happens when you put two revolutionary socialists together, alone, in the same room? Answer: you create the objective conditions for a massive doctrinal split that will retard the development of socialism for 100 years! To illustrate the truth behind this assertion, consider reader dear this extract from the return at the Springburn count: Louise Daid, Socialist Labour Party, 47 votes. Kevin McVey,...
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The Red Wombat Hole (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009
By Kevin McVey First published in The Morning Star, Thursday, 12 November, 2009 The German press reported the launch of a petition two weeks ago calling for extra taxes on the rich. Nothing unusual about that. The idea of the rich paying their fair share of taxes has been one of the clarion calls of the left internationally for a generation. But this petition wasn't launched by Die Linke, nor by the...
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
Scots Shakespearean actor with strong links to Canada and the US The actor Douglas Campbell, who has died aged 87, made a significant impact in theatre on both sides of the Atlantic. A working-class boy from Scotland who rose to play lead roles at the Old Vic, he later became a distinguished and revered actor in Canada. Like his mentor, the director Tyrone Guthrie, he believed passionately in the...
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Independence Cymru (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
The candidates who will contest the Glasgow North East by-election are: Charlie Baillie, British National Party Willie Bain, Scottish Labour Party Eileen Baxendale, Scottish Liberal Democrats Mev Brown, Independent Colin Campbell, The Individuals Labour and Tory (TILT) Ruth Davidson, Scottish Conservative and Unionist David Doherty, Scottish Green Party Mikey Hughes David Kerr, Scottish National Party...
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Missives From Doktorb (Free subscription) | 31/10/2009
Following the resignation of former Speaker, Michael Martin MP, there is to be a by-election in his Glasgow North East constituency. This will take place on the 12 November. The candidates are as follows, with links and info where available. In keeping with my policy set out in the Norwich North thread , this blog does not include direct links to British National Party websites or candidates. Charlie...
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Cumbrian Patriots (Free subscription) | 30/10/2009
Glasgow North East vote at the European elections June this year: Labour Party------------------------------ 5,244 SNP ----------------------------------------3,177 Green Party --------------------------------- 822 United Kingdom Independence Party -------- 618 Conservative and Unionist --------------------561 British National Party -------------------- 545 Liberal Democrats ----------------------------...
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underdogs bite upwards (Free subscription) | 30/10/2009
Here is the list of candidates for Glasgow North East, plucked from the clutches of Socialist Unity . A particularly ironic name considering that their comments focus mainly on the disunity of having a whole raft of different socialist parties standing against each other. Yes, I visit but I don't stay long enough to get infected with the desire to steal everything from everyone and give it to those...
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Andrew Reeves' running blog (Free subscription) | 29/10/2009
Nominations closed yesterday for the Glasgow North East by-election with a mammoth 13 candidates, who in alphabetical order are; Charlie Baillie, British National Party Willie Bain, Labour Eileen Baxendale, Liberal Democrats Mev Brown, independent Colin Campbell, The Individuals Labour and Tory (TILT) Ruth Davidson, Conservative David Doherty, Green Party Mikey Hughes David Kerr, SNP Louise McDaid,...
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Dave's Part (Free subscription) | 29/10/2009
NOW that the Gorbals has been demolished, No Mean City clearly needs a successor, and Glasgow North East fits the bill just nicely. This place is poor; in your face, 40% below the poverty line, smack addicts congregating in the shopping centre, poor. Things have pretty much always been that way, of course. One hundred years ago, Springburn was the site of the largest workhouse in Scotland. A century...
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East Dunbartonshire Scottish Socialist Party (Free subscription) | 25/10/2009
Ron and Alan giving it the "Barras patter" Campsie branch Scottish Socialist Party braved the weather today and went along to the car-boot sale in Milngavie. We sold lots of bric-a-brac and books - and despite the reduced crowds because of the terrible weather, we managed to raise nearly £70 for Kevin McVey's campaign in Glasgow North East . To Join the SSP - or to find out how to donate...
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East Dunbartonshire Scottish Socialist Party (Free subscription) | 24/10/2009
Photo of Royal Mail workers on Strike, Friday 23 October 2009 - photo, Ron Mackay, SSP Campsie Branch. Statement from Campsie Branch SSP HERE More strike coverage HERE
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Dundee SSP (Free subscription) | 22/10/2009
By Richie Venton, SSP National Workplace Organiser The Scottish Socialist Party offers unqualified support to CWU members forced to strike against bully-boy bosses and their Labour government backers. They are out to crush the union, crucify jobs and rights at work – in the hope they can sell off Royal Mail to greedy profiteers at Jumble Sale [...]
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Welsh Ramblings (Free subscription) | 20/10/2009
The idea that public transport should be free is one that sections of the left have woken up to in the past few years, although it is a reality in many places on the European mainland. The most notable advocates for free public transport in the British Isles have been the Scottish Socialist Party , though their idea looks unachievable unless Scotland could raise all of its own resources. In Wales,...
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Dundee SSP (Free subscription) | 17/10/2009
Note: Apologies for the delay, holiday meant there was a backlog of e-mail to sort through and this slipped back a bit. Dundee East and West branches of the Scottish Socialist party organised a public meeting in the city’s Queens Hotel on the evening of Wednesday, September 23, to protest at the continuing war in Afghanistan, [...]
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