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    While Salmond and his party remain popular, their struggle to deliver promises on class sizes and decision to release the man convicted of the Lockerbie bombing has removed some of the sheen. "John Mason, the SNP’s victorious candidate in Glasgow East, already had a local political base in the constituency, where he was clearly a very popular local councillor" says John Curtice, professor of politics at Strathclyde University. Full Article at Times Online
    John Mason, the SNP’s victorious candidate in Glasgow East, already had a local political base in the constituency, where he was clearly a very popular local councillor
    SOURCE: Times Online 1 month ago
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Glasgow North East: a vanity contest?
  1. Nice boy ... he should mibbe stand in that by-election they’re having.
    SOURCE: Times Online 1 month ago
  2. This is certainly not going to be any easier and it is not apparent that the SNP are putting the same effort in. Undoubtedly Labour were caught with their pants down in Glasgow East — in the end they lost because of organisation — one trusts it has learned its lesson.
    SOURCE: Times Online 1 month ago
  3. We have to clamp down on dog-fouling big style. Especially near schools. It’s just not on.
    SOURCE: Times Online 1 month ago
  4. Ladies, I’m here to blow sunshine
    SOURCE: Times Online 1 month ago
  5. We need to speak to the council, get some signs up
    SOURCE: Times Online 1 month ago
  6. The Tories have a credible candidate but the question is whether they can secure a higher share of the vote than they did in Glasgow East ... The Tories badly need to start demonstrating that some of the Cameron vibe is coming north of the border. It would be the first green shoot.
    SOURCE: Times Online 1 month ago
  7. I collect my pension every Thursday and the post office is queued out with Africans and Asians and God knows who, stuffing their pockets with notes ... This isn’t our country any more. So I applaud John for standing up to those people.
    SOURCE: Times Online 1 month ago
  8. I said, come on, you’re kidding, I’m blind
    SOURCE: Times Online 1 month ago
  9. A lot of people are saying they’re very disappointed with us over expenses but there’s not the same hostility this time. They’re not saying they won’t vote for us
    SOURCE: Times Online 1 month ago

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