Tuesday, July 21, 2009

David Kerr, SNP Candidate for Glasgow North East launchs campaign.


Dear All

After James Dornan stepped down from the candidacy of Glasgow North East, the local branch selected a new candidate, David Kerr.

Mr. Kerr is formerly of the BBC and has stood for the SNP before in Falkirk.

Today is the last day that the Springburn by-election can be called before summer recess.

As I understand the situation the SNP have lodged a motion for the by-election to be called as soon as possible this afternoon, to be debate in the House of Commons.

David Kerr officially launched his campaign on Saturday and was joined by Deputy First Minister Nicola Sturgeon at the launch, along with several SNP Councillors and activists.

The 35-year-old secured the SNP candidacy at a meeting of the local party on Friday night and pledged to tackle the pressing social issues in the Glasgow North East seat such as the looming loss of 140 jobs at Diageo's Port Dundas distillery.

David Kerr said;

"The reality is that Glasgow North East is possibly going to be left with no MP for five months".

At present Labour have failed to move the writ for the election which possibly means they are unsure of their candidate, William Bain or issues that they would fight the by-election on.

So, this is a big test for the SNP, who are very much the underdogs in this diehard Labour heartland. This test is far tougher than the Glasgow East by-election which was won by John Mason.

I suspect that Labour will try and use every dirty trick in this by-election and try to smear David Kerr rather than fight on the local issues that they have so neglected in this area.

I was told that while Michael Martin was Speaker, he and his staff held no surgeries in the local area.

This was a complete disgrace and something the Labour Candidate; William Bain made no public mention of.

If Bain thinks this type of behaviour is acceptable then it begs the question what type of MP would he make?

I would suggest a bad one and the people of Springburn deserve better and hopefully the SNP will deliver that change.

Yours sincerely

George Laird
The Campaign for Human Rights at Glasgow University

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