SNP candidate for Glasgow North East chosen

October1974 · SNP candidate for Glasgow North East chosen

it is James Dornan

http://www.snptacticalvoting.com/

Shagpile

Well good luck to him, hope the expected surge in postal votes don't get lost by the court...... THIS TIME!

Reluctant Hero

Looks like its not James Dornan any longer!

Will David Kerr be the candidate now?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/glasgow_and_west/8146794.stm

skip

not wishing to be judge & jury concerning the original candidate's financial arrangements but i think he was right to bow out at this early stage rather than limp on against a backdrop of allegations. it wouldnt help him or the campaign. I do wonder if any of this would or should have come up during the selection process?

good that this surfaced now than in the final week of the campaign!

Reluctant Hero

Don't think it is the final week of the campaign!

With the by-election expected to be in November, the campaign has barely begun!

Holebender

Which, I imagine, is why skip said better now than in the final week.

chicmac

Doubtless the braying mantra of the Labour choir will now switch from "David Kerr was the SNP's real first choice" to "David Kerr is the SNP's second choice" without even breaking beat. Easy, when you've had a sense of morality bypass.

Sadly, for reasons stated before, it really doesn't matter who the candidate is, the ubiquitous donkey in a red rosette would gallop home for Labour in that seat.

Reluctant Hero

alfred

Reluctant Hero

Looks like it is confirmed now as David Kerr

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/glasgow_and_west/8156975.stm

October1974

He should have been picked in the first place. No disrespect to James Dornan I sure he would have been a good candidate but we need more than just a good candidate. Kerr I think will be more streetwise and put some omph into the SNP campaign. Labour keep going on about the SNP not having chosen a local candidate. . How the Labour candidate living and working in London makes him local is political spin at its creative. No doubt they will say he was born in Glasgow and 'comes home at weekends'.

Reluctant Hero

Looks like the Sunday Herald is going after the SNP big time in this by-election.

http://www.sundayherald.com/news/...idate_derides_city_university.php

October1974

Dave Coull

I had read that this guy was Alex Salmond's first choice, but originally rejected by the local SNP. As Alex can be a shrewd political operator, I thought, maybe the local party were wrong. Now, I'm not so sure.

Having read that Herald article, the thing that jumped out at me wasn't David Kerr "sneering at a local university" - it was that he was/is a member of Opus Dei. Opus Dei is a secretive, and dangerously anti-democratic, right wing organisation which developed in Spain under the rule of General Franco. In Franco's Spain, not only were members of Opus Dei prominent in fascist politics, many of them were close colleagues of Franco, and members of Franco's government. Opus Dei is a religious organisation of an extremely reactionary type. For example, apart from the right-wing politics, its members practice "mortification of the flesh", which might have made sense to monks in medieval times, but sounds like plain sado-masochism nowadays.

Maybe the SNP figures that, having managed to get a born-again Baptist called Mason elected in the next-door constituency, they can get a religious fanatic of a different type elected in North-East Glasgow. They might even be right. But I for one will view David Kerr with suspicion, given his Opus Dei background.