Sep 19 2005
LABOUR FAIL TO FIELD PARTY CANDIDATE IN CATHCART
http://www.sundayherald.com/51832
You’ve probably seen this already, but Labour’s appalling Cathcart by-election campaign continues in its comedic vane. For those of you who don’t want to click on the hyperlink I have summarised Comrade Gordon’s pronouncements below:
On former sports and cultyur minister Frank “Do you deliver pie suppers to Easterhouse?” McAveety:
“Frank’s got the attention span of a goldfish. I’d be sitting here saying ‘Frank, there’s a complicated point about the capital programme that I need to explain to you’ … and he’d be strumming away on his guitar…He’s just a daft boy who nobody rated when he was leader of Glasgow City Council”
On education minister Peter Peacock:
“We were all angry at Peacock being a minister because the ink wasn’t dry on his Labour party membership card and, as we suspected, Peacock was coming [in] with the need to square the balance with the rural authorities.”
On the introduction of Proportional Representation for Local Government Elections:
“What he (McConnell) has done is not going down well with the big figures in Westminster. I’d ask: ‘What do John Reid and Gordon Brown think of this?’ What I’m hearing is that they’re not best pleased.”
On Labour’s treatment of Pat Lally:
“Disgraceful”
On McConnell’s revue of local authority funding:
“As [Cosla President] Pat Watters rightly points out – wee Jack is contradicting himself. When Jack was finance minister, we said we want an independent review of local government finance, and now suddenly, out the blue, he’s announced one.”
On the coalition:
“Labour should have opted for minority governmen…this coalition politics can lead to paralysis or to pork-barrel politics [spending in return for political support]”
And you all thought Mike Watson was a thug. In a number of ways I hope he gets elected; I like a good disaster movie.
