Glasgow NE by-election

So the SNP have lost their candidate at the election, just as Labour lost their candidate in Ballieston.


My old friend Grant Thoms, aka Tartan Hero, would have been the ideal candidate and would have walked the seat, but as he has discovered, in the new SNP there is no place for those who are prepared to express their views in public, without official sanction.

The SNP approved candidates list now seems to consist of the bland, the featureless or the invisible. And sometimes all three in one person.

Now it is back to the drawing board, and a parachuted-in candidate to lose magnificently.

Labour must be laughing themselves stupid.

The former candidate said, "I am taking legal advice on the suggestion that there may have been a technical breach of charities legislation by virtue of me being appointed a partner director of Culture and Sport Glasgow by Glasgow City Council, a position for which I received no financial gain whatsoever."

Anyone involved with Charities will know exactly where he stands: in front of the Standards Commission as a result of the imminent complaint about allowing himself to become a charity trustee when disqualified from so doing. A spectacular own goal.