Some of the people that I have met out and about over the past 9 years as a local MSP have been absolutely inspirational. Today I met a man who was up there with the very best that the East End has to offer.
Mr McGuiness is a 93 year old - who looks not a day past 70, by the way - living in a sheltered housing complex that I went to visit today.
Mr McGuiness fought with the Desert Rats in World War II and was treated in hospital for shrapnel wounds. He also fought in Yugoslavia with the partisans against the German occupation.
He reminded me of all the sacrifices our older generation made so that we can enjoy freedom today. I hope every single voter in the East End uses their hard-fought right to vote on July 24th.
Oh dear,oh dear.
The photograph SLP supplied with this piece is certainly of a Mr McGuiness, who's indeed looking pretty sprightly for a 93 year war veteran (and resident of East Glasgow)- but that's probably because he's not only a Labour apparatchik, but also 67 years old and thus unlikely (at the age of 3 1/2) to have ever fought Rommel and the Afrika Korps.
As Guido points out here, another spectacular own goal by Scottish Labour; you'd almost think they don't want to win the bye-election and keep Brown in No.10...
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Thought they'd despatched him to Ten Years Younger for a face-lift :-)
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