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Article: On the mean streets of Glasgow's East End, where people die young and the living rely on benefits, Gordon Brown is facing the biggest challenge of his political life... Grim outlook: The streets of Shettleston have always been Labour territory - but change may be in the air.
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- Daily Mail (London)
- Article date:
- July 5, 2008
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Byline: Maureen Culley
IT is early afternoon in The Town Tavern and the pub is enjoying aroaring trade as unemployed men prop up the bar. Outside, drinkers who havebriefly parted from their pints brave the drizzle to drag on their cigarettes,while single mothers push prams over cracked pavements, past a host offast-food outlets, bookmakers and boarded-up shops.
Here in Shettleston Road, in the poverty-stricken East End of Glasgow - forgenerations the pounding heart of the Labour Party - more people claimincapacity benefit than in any other part of the country and life expectancy islower than in Gambia.
But through a rising discontent with their ...