Glasgow East Wakes Up To Labour
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At last the people of Glasgow East has woken up to New Tories Labour and voted in an MP and a party that truly does care about them. For those of you who don’t want to know the result, you may wish to look away now! Labour supporters and Gordon Brown may also wish to click away to some propaganda blog saying that this is a vote on the economy, not some kind of referendum on the government.
To summarise the result:
| Candidate | Party |
Votes |
| John Mason | Scottish Nationalist Party |
11,277 |
| Margaret Curran | Scottish Labour |
10,912 |
| Davena Rankin | Scottish Conservative |
1,639 |
| Ian Robertson | Scottish Liberal Democrats |
915 |
More analysis and information is available on the BBC website.
So the winning candidate is John Mason with a voting swing of 22.54% from Labour to the SNP, but the real winners are the people of Glasgow East. At least the recount called by Magrat Curran and her loser croonies was performed efficiently and quickly!
One of my friends, who has voted SNP a good deal longer than myself, commented a while back on how people in the West of Scotland have a fatalist loyalty to Labour and will often vote for them because their father and their father’s father voted that way. However, tonight they’ve broken the bad habit of many generations and done themselves, their area and the whole of Scotland proud.
Today’s hero
Photo: John Mason MP for Glasgow East
Congratulations and gratitude to my fellow Scottish citizens of Glasgow East for sending a message to the Labour government, who only care about your vote, not you as an individual. John Mason MP will be representing you full time and have the ear of people in Scotland who can make real positive changes for your area.
Now we wait to see the truth behind some of the speculation over the David Marshall resignation that caused this bye-election in the first place! There are some big signs that something is coming down the pipeline about this particular ex-MP.
Technorati Tags: bye-election, David Marshall, Glasgow East, John Mason, Labour, SNP
Reversepsychology said,
Wrote on July 26, 2008 @ 2:31 am
Next election - New Labour - Less than 100 seats if El one eye is still at the helm - Anybody care to disagree??
John said,
Wrote on July 26, 2008 @ 7:02 am
I think you’re missing the “I’ve always voted Labour and my father and his father have always voted Labour” effect. Don’t dismiss it! There really are dumb asses out there who believe Nu Labour is looking after them and the poor!
There is also other people who simply can’t bring themselves to vote Tory, ever… ever! That is going to really help the nationalist parties who will see a big switch in votes from Labour to them.
One thing is for sure… Labour will see the same wipe out that the Tories suffered in 1997.
John said,
Wrote on July 26, 2008 @ 7:04 am
I sent an email to John Mason congratulating him on the victory. He relied within a few hours to the email at 5:30am. Now I thought that was very cool.