Labour Party turns the General Election in Scotland very nasty by accusing SNP Minister Keith Brown of assault, bad tempered scenes in Ochil

Dear All

This election for Westminster will be very tight and in all probably very nasty.

The Labour Party director of communications, Rami Okacha has accused an SNP Government, Keith Brown of assault.

Okacha was part of Gordon Brown’s tour of a marginal seat in Scotland when they ran into the SNP MSP Keith Brown.

This led to bad tempered scenes as Brown was heckled by Scotland's Education Minister over his views on Iraq on the shameful and illegal Iraq war.

We now have after the confrontation claim and counter-claim after Labour's director of communications, Rami Okacha alleged he had been punched in the back by the SNP minister.

The SNP described the claim last night as "fantasy".

I find the claim that a SNP Government Minster would assault anyone extremely hard to believe.

Ochil and South Perthshire is the country's tightest Labour-SNP marginal.

In 2005 election placed the SNP a mere 688 seats short of Labour and odds are the SNP are inline to take the seat on 6th May away from the sitting Labour MP.Keith Brown, a former marine, is now a junior education minister for the Scottish Government.An SNP spokesman;

"Labour's oversensitivity whenever the Prime Minister is questioned on the issue of Iraq speaks volumes. After a desperate week for Labour they have resorted to fantasy and fiction to distract from their own campaign's own troubles."

On thing that has not happened since the alleged incident is Police involvement which you think that Labour’s director of communications, Rami Okacha would have called immediately.

I think this incident shows how nasty and low the Labour Party will stoop in this election and it also doesn’t bode well for the Labour Party to adopt such a mentality.

Yours sincerely

George Laird
The Campaign for Human Rights at Glasgow University