The Duke of Wellington, pictured above, sporting his now familiar traffic cone outside Glasgow's Gallery of Modern Art, the GOMA, was the subject of much ridicule for being the most English of Englishmen.
Daniel O'Connell, the great Irish liberator, who campaigned for Catholic emancipation, the right for Catholics to sit in the Houses of Parliament and for the Independence of Ireland was the man whose quote about Wellington's birthplace has often been misattributed to the Duke himself.
O'Connell said, " The poor old Duke! What shall I say of him? To be sure he was born in Ireland, but being born in a stable does not make a man a horse."
Which brings me to the latest super duper smart campaigning tool from the Labour party, fighting for their safest seat in Scotland. At no great expense, the labour party have produced and printed 30,000 leaflets which will be slithering through letterboxes throughout the constituency over the next couple of days.
This leaflet does not point out what great things Willie Bain will be doing as their Labour MP in Parliament, it doesn't comment on the fact that he's completely at odds with the Labour party over his support of the striking posties, nor that he opposes privatisation of the Royal Mail, nor does it highlight his slamming of Glasgow's Labour Council policy of school closures as 'the wrong decision'.
Instead it accuses the SNP candidate, David Kerr, of being a big, fat, smelly liar over his place of birth. No doubt, the assertion being that if Kerr lied about that, he'd eat your children and defecate in the Pope's Mitre whilst flagellating himself with the latest Dan Brown tome.
Kerr made the mistake of claiming to have been born in the constituency. His parents may have lived in Shettleston, his mother may have carried him for nine months in Shettleston, he may well have returned to the family home, in Shettleston, a few days after popping into this brave new world. However, the fact remains that he was born in a maternity hospital on the South side of Glasgow, not Shettleston. In the eyes of Labour this, obviously, like the Duke of Wellington, does not make him either a horse or Shettlestonian.
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Rather than regurgitate all the despairing facts on life in this constituency, have a gander below and wallow in the poverty, ill health, lack of education and unemployment statistics.
Michael Martin left this constituency in a state befitting some third world shit hole, Willie Bain was his agent and Labour party secretary.
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At least Mr Kerr probably knows where he lives, unlike so many of the Labour pack in the Commons and Lords who seem to have difficulty with that question.
Aye... not a policy in sight. So what's new?
Well said, perhaps the election is closer than Labour like to admit.
They are hitting the panic buttons early.
I was on the thread on the Scotsman it just got pulled after the idiot Yeah1 has banging about SNP supporters crossing over to the BNP.
Yeah1 - my understanding is that the SNP have the largest membership of any party in Scotland. This is largely due to ex-labour members seeing the light and joining that progressive social democratic party. Not to worry though - I hear that Labour is counting on the Orange vote to see them through.
That nasty piece of bollocks and several dozen others to be taken into consideration M'lud.
Oh dear, Yeah1 continuing his campaign of injecting racism into political discussion on Scotland's constitutional future.
What a bottom scuttling, scum swilling, posturing mountebank.
Perhaps it is time this insidious creatures e-mails were made public?
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