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Article: Look who's not talking in Glasgow East
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- Scotland on Sunday
- Article date:
- July 6, 2008
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"LABOUR?" growled pensioner Davie Robb outside the Centaur Bar in
Easterhouse. "That lot are so hopeless that Chipperfield's wouldnae
take them on as clowns."
He and his cronies wheeze with laughter as they point to a red
and yellow poster that is hanging precariously from a lamp post.
As the by-election circus rolls into Glasgow East it is fair to
say Gordon Brown's party doesn't have its troubles to seek.
Councillor George Ryan was on the brink of being named as
Labour's candidate, but performed a dramatic last-minute
disappearing act Paul Daniels would have been proud of.
Despite having not so much as a proverbial donkey to pin a red
rosette on, Labour has set up a campaign HQ at ...