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Islay McLeod's
straw poll

On the day of the Glasgow north-east
by-election, the punters' verdict

Shevlanes bar, Springburn

Left to right:
Labour. 'We're going to win'.
BNP: 'It's like the United Nations around here'.
Labour: 'I've always voted Labour'.
SNP: 'I felt like an alien in London'.

I asked them if there were any Tories in Springburn.
'Aye, there's one'.
'Who is it?'.
'Michael Martin'.
Laughter all round.

 

 

 

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13.11.09
Issue no 169

A week in Glasgow
north-east
Islay McLeod's images of the constituency which produced more than 1,000 votes for the BNP on Friday morning
[click here]

The woman from Kabul
Afghanistan and remembrance I
Kenneth Roy
on a visitor who personified
the qualities of the Afghan
[click here]

The white poppy
Afghanistan and remembrance II
David Mackenzie
and Andrew Sarle
[click here]

The gentry's cloth
Peter MacAulay
People wove tweed when
there was no other work
[click here]

A hunger for ideas
Walter Humes
on the intellectual
life of a city
[click here]

More than a bus operator
Richard Benjamin
leaps to the defence of
Ann Gloag. Sort of
[click here]


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