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Article: After a duff campaign . . .a leadership contest THE FALL-OUT FROM GLASGOW EAST
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- The Sunday Herald
- Article date:
- July 27, 2008
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A TRIP to a Glasgow East tenement summed up the futility of
Labour's by-election campaign.
A group of activists, hoping the block of fl ats would be full of
potential supporters, instead found a lone resident at the top of
the stairs, refusing to open the door.
When the shy man eventually emerged, after being assured the
canvassers were not police, Labour found the individual was smeared
in his own excrement.
A well-run campaign, Labour figures believe, would not have
wasted time and effort on such pointless adventures.
"We were out-organised by the Nationalists, that is the bottom
line, " said party MP Jim Devine.
The Glasgow East campaign, say insiders, confirmed that Labour in
Scotland ...