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Article: FOREIGN CORRESPONDENTS: WHAT THE UK MEDIA SAID ABOUT GLASGOW EAST
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- The Sunday Herald
- Article date:
- July 20, 2008
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MANY journalists have responded to the Glasgow East by-election
not by analysing the main candidates and their policies but instead
by judging the people who will vote for them.
Last week the Sunday Times' star restaurant reviewer, television
critic and feature writer AA Gill penned a controversial piece for
page two of the newspaper.
He described the area thus: "Glasgow East is the hardest, poorest
place in Britain. Others may pick a fight about that - but they'd
lose. Shettleston, at the heart of the constituency, makes the rough
margins of Liverpool look like the Chelsea Flower Show."
He went on: "The constituency is large and incoherent. It looks
like the national museum of pebble ...