The Guardian is also reporting that the evil stench of sectarianism may also be a factor with the Scottish National Party choosing their longest serving councillor, John Mason, as the man to try to overturn Labour's 13,507 majority:
Labour sources suggest that as well as his nationalism, Mason's faith, as a Baptist, will not sit easily with voters in the predominately Catholic constituency.
Labour sources suggesting to The Guardian…or Labour sources will be informing the locals not to vote for the man who kicks with the wrong foot?
They surely wouldn’t make the same kind of mistake they did at Crewe and Nantwich???
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Does not surprise me in that part of the country. I just hope the SNP has purged itself of its maverick sectarian elements that also stalk the western central belt which reared its ugly head in the Monklands East by-election.
Helen Liddell - "fennian bitch!" as she was supposedly called. I am not a fan of Nagging Nelly/Stalin's Granny (now Her Maj's rep to Oz - nice work if you can get it) but I object strongly to that sort of mentality.
Tories have largely lost their links with the Orange Lodge and I do not really think Dave is the cup of Buckie ("see they monks, they are Prod monks") for the inbred, redneck, bigoted trolls that dwell in Olympia House (Scottish LOL HQ) in Bridgton within the constituency.
I've just googled the Liddell story, it's truly astonishing and shameful stuff.
This link suggests it was from labour voters;
http://tinyurl.com/6kulz3
Look Scotland has all but evolved from a deeply anti-Catholic past. Former first minister Jack McConnell and Alex ferguson of Man U are only two of the better known people who suffered from having a Catholic wife. I am a Catholic and a fervent nationalist. I would not be party to bigotry of ANY form. I am glad to say that Orange bigots are now marginalised almost completely, green bigots have never matched the orange for numbers or impact and have never had a smidgeon of importance anyhow.
Also the east end is not predominately Catholic. A large minority, aye.
Monklands stirred something in my memory...and yes, here it is:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monklandsgate.
And looking a bit further into the "Fenian bitch" scandal, it was actually Labour supporters (presumably from Airdrie) that insulted her as far as I can understand.
Must be a lovely plave altogether.
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