People of Glasgow North East left unrepresented

Commenting on yet more smears emenating from Labour's campaign for the Glasgow North East by-election, the SNP's campaign manager Stewart Hosie said that it was  a clear sign that Labour was desperate and fearful of losing the seat.

Commenting Mr Hosie said: "Whilst the SNP has been focussing on the issues that matter to the people of Glasgow, such as education and jobs, Labour's entire campaign has been focussed on smears and personal attacks on SNP candidate David Kerr.

"This latest stuff of nonsense, which hides behind an anonymous source, is clearly another dirty smear tactic from an increasingly desperate Labour party who have refused to allow the people of Glasgow North East the chance to democratically elect a MP.

"As the BBC has made clear, the three person production team, including David Kerr, was cleared of any health and safety breach and acting with the permission of their editor. They were simply doing their jobs.

"Last week, Labour disgracefully attempted to make religion a focal point in the campaign by making cheap jibes about David's personal faith. Comments they are now claiming were misquoted. If that were the case, why didn't they immediately clarify their supposedly erroneous comments and seek a correction in all the newspapers that published the contemptuous attack?

"Labour's tactics of personal attacks over policy were used in the Norwich North by-election, and we saw there that the voters responded to their smears by throwing them out.

"The people of Norwich North were given the chance to pass judgement on Labour's shambolic administration at Westminster on Thursday and Labour were overwhelmingly rejected.

SNP Glasgow North East candidate David Kerr said: "I am engaging with the constituents in Glasgow North East on the issues that really matter to them – jobs, including the threat to Diageo’s workforce at Port Dundas, education and Labour council’s threat to close local schools and the need for regenerating this area that has been badly let down by decades of Labour mismanagement and inertia.

"Now more than ever the people in Glasgow North East need someone standing up for them, fighting their corner at Westminster.  But Labour are running scared by refusing to allow Glasgow North East constituents representation until November at the earliest."