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• Hung parliaments are only good for whips and scribblers | Martin Kettle

  
  Comment is free | guardian.co.uk — Authority: 163
  They can enliven politics and force leaders to think twice. But they are rare and a recipe for factions rather than consensus One swallow doesnt make a summer. And one opinion poll certainly doesnt make a hung parliament either. Over the past few days, however, you could easily be forgiven for thinking it did. The ...
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• Labours taxing tactics in Scotland | Iain Macwhirter

  
  Comment is free | guardian.co.uk — Authority: 163
  A proposal for greater tax powers for Holyrood is not just pre-election bluster – it is a step towards fiscal federalism The Labour governments white paper proposing greater tax powers for the Scottish parliament has been dismissed as an exercise in pre-election window dressing. For a start, it will never be ...
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• Labour-Tory alliance on Scotlands powers comes unstuck

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 987
  Conservatives reject UK white paper on giving new powers to Holyrood, saying they will reveal own plans after election A rare alliance between Gordon Brown and David Cameron on proposals to counter Scottish nationalism collapsed today after the Tories refused to support Labours plans to increase the Scottish ...
  3 days ago

• SNP angered by lack of Holyrood bill

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 987
  Plans to increase the Scottish parliaments remit in doubt after Queen makes only fleeting reference to the proposals Alex Salmond will make Scottish devolution a key battleground in the general election after Labour resisted pressure to bring forward legislation to strengthen Holyroods powers. Plans backed by ...
  1 week ago

• ‘Not Here’

  
  Kirklees Unity Exposing the Far Right — Authority: 139
  Police officers far outnumber the marchers from the Scottish Defence League in Cambridge Street Thousands turn out to deliver message to fascists Standing precariously on a bin as thousands of people swarmed into George Square banging drums and chanting, anti-racist campaigner ...
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• The SNP suddenly looks vulnerable

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 987
  Labours byelection win was a blow to Alex Salmonds party ahead of the 2011 election An icy breeze is making the Scottish National party shiver and gather its cloak more tightly about itself. A question is being asked that previously no one dared whisper: has Alex Salmond lost his mojo? When he has tapped his ...
  2 weeks ago

• Labour hails thumping victory

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 987
  Party increases share of vote to 60%, pushing Scottish National party into distant second place Ministers today hailed Labours win in the Glasgow North East byelection as evidence that the party could defy poor UK-wide poll ratings and pull off a fourth consecutive election victory. Labour increased its share of the ...
  2 weeks ago

• Glasgow North East byelection: City preparing for far-right rally as fears grow of Scottish rise in neo-nazi groups

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 987
  Tensions surge after BNP comes fourth in Glasgow North East byelection Police in Glasgow are preparing for angry confrontations tomorrow between anti-racist campaigners and supporters of the far-right English Defence League as fears grow of a rise in activity by Scottish fascist groups. Tensions over the activities ...
  2 weeks ago

• Politics Weekly podcast: Glasgow North East byelection, Majors parliamentary reform plan, and Browns immigration proposals

  
  Comment is free | guardian.co.uk — Authority: 163
  This week Julian Glover , Georgina Henry and Lesley Riddoch join me – flying solo while Tom Clark is on holiday – to discuss the Glasgow North East byelection , proposals to make parliaments less pliable and immigration. Lesley reports that the byelection count itself was not worth staying up for but all ...
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• Labour win demolishes SNP hopes

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 987
  Scottish secretary Jim Murphy says 60% of vote gives Labour shot of confidence for general election The SNPs claims that it could win 20 seats at the general election have been demolished by Labours "thumping" victory in Glasgow North East, the Scottish secretary, Jim Murphy, claimed today. Murphy said the landslide ...
  2 weeks ago

• Labour won, but it did not inspire| James Mitchell

  
  Comment is free | guardian.co.uk — Authority: 163
  The Glasgow North East vote came down to a simple bidding war on localness. There should be more to politics than this The SNP has had some sensational byelection victories over the years, but we shouldnt forget that these were exceptional – thats what made them sensations. The SNP victory over a year ago in ...
  2 weeks ago

• Labour plays opposition in Glasgow

  
  Comment is free | guardian.co.uk — Authority: 163
  In the Glasgow North East byelection, the SNP could be beaten using tribal politics. The wider lessons of the result are complex The Glasgow North East campaign never really got started in the way some byelections catch fire or one candidate creates a bandwagon. And yet, this result will send ripples through the ...
  2 weeks ago

• Brown gets a popularity ratings boost with Labour by-poll win Glasgow North East

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 725
  London, Nov.13 (ANI): British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has got a much needed popularity ratings boost with his Labour Party securing a huge victory in the Glasgow North East by-election on Thursday.Willie Bain, the Labour candidate, won the seat by more than 8,000 votes from David Kerr, the Scottish National Party ...
  2 weeks ago

• SNP throws in towel to Labour in Glasgow North East byelection

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 987
  • SNP suffers second defeat in three byelections • Protest vote blamed as BNP takes fourth place Labour celebrated an emphatic victory in the Glasgow North East byelection early this morning, boosting Gordon Browns attempts to rally his weary party as it prepares for the general election. The margin of Labours ...
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• Glasgow North East byelection – live

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 987
  Minute-by-minute coverage throughout the day as Labour and SNP clash in key byelection 12.16pm: Heres a good picture of Kerr visiting a polling station at Scaraway nursery school in the north of the city. Nice car. 12.11pm: LabourLists Alex Smith is also following events on a blog throughout the day. He ...
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• A contest Gordon Brown dare not lose

  
  Comment is free | guardian.co.uk — Authority: 163
  Film buffs in the soft south know more than they realise about Glasgow North East. Criminologists know more than they would like to. So do poverty analysts and critics of the former Commons Speaker, Michael Martin, whose enforced resignation triggered the contest in this traditional Labour stronghold. Home to ...
  2 weeks ago

• SNP braced for second successive byelection defeat by Labour in Glasgow North East

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 987
  Alex Salmond claims ground shifting towards his party but falls short of predicting victory in Glasgow North East Alex Salmond is braced for a second successive byelection defeat by Labour tomorrow despite claiming a late surge in support for the Scottish National party in Glasgow North East. Scotlands first ...
  2 weeks ago

• Eddie Izzard backs Labour in Glasgow North East byelection

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 987
  Comedian shows his support for candidate Willie Bain as all four main parties make final push ahead of tomorrows vote The comedian Eddie Izzard has backed Labours candidate in the Glasgow North East byelection after visiting the partys base on the last day of campaigning. Izzard arrived at Labours campaign ...
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• The battle for Glasgow North East

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 987
  From George Galloway to the BNP, John Harris talks to the many byelection players John Harris Natalie Hanman Mustafa Khalili
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• Labour sends in big guns for byelection

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 987
  Alistair Darling and Alan Johnson will join Labours candidate, Willie Bain, in the Glasgow North East constituency today, following Gordon Browns visit on Friday Two senior cabinet ministers will visit Glasgow today to help drum up votes for Labour as campaigning in the citys byelection enters its last days. ...
  2 weeks ago

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