Dear All
The Westminister election has claimed another victim.
This one to hit the bricks and pack up his tent is John McFall.
McFall, has represented West Dunbartonshire for more than 20 years and now has announced that he is standing down.
You would have thought if he planned to retire at normal retirement age, he would have told his branch sooner than leaving it to the very last minute.
So, who could replace him as Labour Candidate?
Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton or Des McNulty, MSP for Clydebank & Milngavie seem like contenders.
And at present there is an exodus of Labour MSPs jumping ship to Westminister, well they have got Iain Gray as a leader.
McFall has done his branch no favours as they scramble to get someone into place in a few short weeks.
I would expect them to try and get a high profile candidate as sticking in an unknown with no track record in the area could spell disaster.
His majority is in the region of 12,553 so Labour has a buffer to fall back on but even so, they will be looking to play it ultra safe.
I suspect they might feel Des McNulty rather than Jackie Baillie is a better choice; McNulty is less of a damaged article than Baillie.
Baillie effectively killed her Holyrood career as number 2 to the disgraced Wendy Alexander.
But, she might decide that she is better off down the road at Westminister.
If Labour MSPs do fight over the seat then it will be another damning indictment of Iain Gray’s leadership.
Why take order from London Labour’s puppet in Holyrood when there is more kudos going straight to the organ grinder?
Sitting getting orders from the monkey is no way for an aspiring professional to act.
Doesn’t look good on the Political CV, ‘effective team working with a chimp’!
This looks like exodus, exodus from Gray.
Yours sincerely
George Laird
The Campaign for Human Rights at Glasgow University
The Westminister election has claimed another victim.
This one to hit the bricks and pack up his tent is John McFall.
McFall, has represented West Dunbartonshire for more than 20 years and now has announced that he is standing down.
You would have thought if he planned to retire at normal retirement age, he would have told his branch sooner than leaving it to the very last minute.
So, who could replace him as Labour Candidate?
Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton or Des McNulty, MSP for Clydebank & Milngavie seem like contenders.
And at present there is an exodus of Labour MSPs jumping ship to Westminister, well they have got Iain Gray as a leader.
McFall has done his branch no favours as they scramble to get someone into place in a few short weeks.
I would expect them to try and get a high profile candidate as sticking in an unknown with no track record in the area could spell disaster.
His majority is in the region of 12,553 so Labour has a buffer to fall back on but even so, they will be looking to play it ultra safe.
I suspect they might feel Des McNulty rather than Jackie Baillie is a better choice; McNulty is less of a damaged article than Baillie.
Baillie effectively killed her Holyrood career as number 2 to the disgraced Wendy Alexander.
But, she might decide that she is better off down the road at Westminister.
If Labour MSPs do fight over the seat then it will be another damning indictment of Iain Gray’s leadership.
Why take order from London Labour’s puppet in Holyrood when there is more kudos going straight to the organ grinder?
Sitting getting orders from the monkey is no way for an aspiring professional to act.
Doesn’t look good on the Political CV, ‘effective team working with a chimp’!
This looks like exodus, exodus from Gray.
Yours sincerely
George Laird
The Campaign for Human Rights at Glasgow University
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