*** SNP select James Dornan ***
Tuesday, 7 July 2009
News comes to me that Leader of the opposition on Glasgow Council James Dornan has been selected as the candidate for the SNP to fight the Glasgow North East by election.
Dornan is the councillor for Langside on the south of Glasgow and became leader of the SNP group on the council when Mason graduated to become temporary MP for Glasgow East in the by election.
Unlike John Mason though who had his phenomenal local results in Garrowhill, Dornan is not local and has not worked the seat for the best part of a decade.
The surprise for me is that David Kerr did not win the nomination but I suppose you have to respect the democratic will of the local members.
The obvious question is what was wrong with the local councillors and local activists that their wasn't someone with the stature or ability to withstand the test of a by election?
I'm getting more and more confident about this by election by the day. It started with dread but with a good local candidate and with a head start in campaigning this is everything that Glasgow East it not... game on!
hat tip to Esther.
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7 comments:
dissapointing i wanted a non-politician but no mind another political earthquake it is.
Yousuf
Nice to see all the "socialists" who were elected to parliament to fight for the poor, voting to double the starting rate of tax to 20p leaving half a million of the poorest people in the UK worse off.
How many Scottish Labour MPs voted for this?
I look forward to you defending this on the doorsteps>
Some moral compass!
So, Yousuf, are you saying that Margaret Curran wasn't a 'good' candidate or that she wasn't a 'local' candidate.
I, of course, would suggest she was neither, but I would say that, wouldn't I.
Wardog - I think we';; win Glagow East at the General Election and a not going to apologise for stating it.
Sean - Margaret Curran has been the MSP for Baillieston for a decade there's no doubt she has a profile and a base in the area.
Pretty hypocritical of Labour to have a go at the SNP for not fielding a "local" candidate. In the constituency where I live (Moray), Labour are parachuting in somebody from 200 MILES AWAY for the next Westminster election.
A case of doing one thing in one part of the country and saying the complete opposite in another.
Just the kind of thing we have come to expect in recent years from this self-serving, shoddy, shady, unscrupulous party that has lost any trace of decency it once had in the past and still thinks it has a divine right to rule in certain areas.
If you are going down the "local candidate" line, then really Peter Grant should have won in Glenrothes, not Lindsay Roy who is from Kirkcaldy.
Labour only bring this up when it suits themselves.
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