Glasgow NE: Willie Bain, Labour. FINAL 48 HOUR PUSH
Polling day is just two days away, and my campaign is gearing up for a final push to persuade local people that I will work hard for everyone here if they choose me to represent them.
I will continue to disregard the speculation and bookmakers' predictions about how this by-election will end - it will be a close battle and I am fighting for every vote. The vast majority of people have not yet cast their vote and I want to talk to as many of them as possible.
My focus over the next few days will be to encourage my neighbours and others who live in the constituency to make that trip to the polling station, because I want to see a good turn-out.
What drives me is the chance to make the area where I grew up and still live today a better and fairer place to be. I will fight for jobs and more opportunities for young people, and that is the message I took to John Wheatley College today as I met with staff and students at the fantastic new campus on Haghill Road.
Tackling crime, and in particular knife crime, is also one of my priorities. I welcomed Shadow Justice Secretary Richard Baker to the constituency today and I am pleased that he backs my 'carry a knife, go to jail' campaign. We need a stronger deterrent to stop people carrying a blade and using weapons to attack people.
As polling day gets closer, I hope I have worked hard enough to convince people in my area to put their trust in me - but we are still 48 hours away from polling and there are thousands of people still to speak to.
Willie Bain
Labour's by-election candidate
I will continue to disregard the speculation and bookmakers' predictions about how this by-election will end - it will be a close battle and I am fighting for every vote. The vast majority of people have not yet cast their vote and I want to talk to as many of them as possible.
My focus over the next few days will be to encourage my neighbours and others who live in the constituency to make that trip to the polling station, because I want to see a good turn-out.
What drives me is the chance to make the area where I grew up and still live today a better and fairer place to be. I will fight for jobs and more opportunities for young people, and that is the message I took to John Wheatley College today as I met with staff and students at the fantastic new campus on Haghill Road.
Tackling crime, and in particular knife crime, is also one of my priorities. I welcomed Shadow Justice Secretary Richard Baker to the constituency today and I am pleased that he backs my 'carry a knife, go to jail' campaign. We need a stronger deterrent to stop people carrying a blade and using weapons to attack people.
As polling day gets closer, I hope I have worked hard enough to convince people in my area to put their trust in me - but we are still 48 hours away from polling and there are thousands of people still to speak to.
Willie Bain
Labour's by-election candidate
Labels: Glasgow, Glasgow North East, Willie Bain
posted by Scottish Labour at
16:48
12 Comments:
Are you proud of this legacy of 74 years of Labour rule in Glasgow North East:
http://www.scottishreview.net/IMcLeod166.html
And will you answer questions about in which local authority areas you are registered either as a voter or council tax payer?
Richard Baker sorry you have to be joking, apart from showing an incredible ignorance about due process and Scots law.
There is a small fact that he classic labour politican with zero experience in the real world, and makes himself into a figure of ridicule.
So chaps perhaps you could explain to this concerned talk payer where the funds for the extra prison places is coming from?
And why Mr Bain are you not highlighting the terrible problem of organised crime and drugs in the area?
What about the lack of morals shown by the last MP?
Or are you going to deploy the usual shield of "doing down Glasgow"?
Also I going to correct you about what the SBG is. There is resource DEL reduction of £392m.
Hmm Bain makes no mention of GCC shedding four thousand jobs and targetting over fifties for redundancy.
For as long as I can remember GCC has managed a no compulsory redundancy policy but that looks as if it is going to be ripped up after April.
We already have rubbish piling up in the streets due to the cleansing work to rule, and nothing is more certain than further industrial strife as Purcell reaps the whirlwind of Labour's management of their City.
SNP ripping off Glasgow? That's a sick joke.
And I also think that most North Glaswegians would rather you dealt with the Lyons and the Daniels and the McGoverns and their ilk than locking up daft wee boys who really just need a good fright.
It is gangsters who cause the crime problem in Glasgow and the violence, not stupid little neds.
Observer.
your point is absolutely valid. I have been livid about the clamouring to lock up little neds witn knives whilst the real criminals of much severer crimes go unpunished. how is this for some stats.
19 of the 21 gangs in scotland are in strathclyde area. 75% of those are found in GNE.
and Labour and SNP continue to insist on 'knife crime' as their election fight! ugh!
and willie bain, dont you dare suggest you are gearing up for the last 48hours, you have been wandering about looking smug since day 1. you are certain you will breeze in and dont feel the need to connect with your electorate in any way.
Good luck willie and my hope is you win for the people of Glasgow and scotland.
Mr Mxyzptik, I notice you don't spell Scotland with a capital "s". A freudian slip perhaps?
Mr Bain, you seem to have mixed up where you are standing as a representative for. Surely if you want to be elected to Westminster, you should be campaigning on matters that are reserved to Westminster and leaving issues like justice to MSPs.
Mr Bain,
There's an old Gaelic song full of praise about a village that the guy who wrote the song had left and the punch-line of the song is "If the place was so brilliant why did you leave it?" By the same token if you are so fond of the area why are you lecturing in London when there are plenty of opportunity
ies in Glasgow to do so?
very good point, Brownlie! unfortunately the last laugh might go to Bain on this one, he has got away fairly well on this issue, the smear campaign mounted on Kerr's birthplace was large enough for him to hide this. Which is a shame as it has been touted so widely that Bain is the 'only' local candidate blahh blahhh convenient press for him given he got out of the area to work in London, which couldnt be further from the lives of the consituents.
argh.
I hope the consituents dont add another year to labours 74 years of neglect!
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