The cashflow problems at the Labour Party must be more severe than previously thought, because the entire organisation seems to be sharing a single email account. We got yet another begging letter today, from the same address previously named as “Iain McNicol” and “Ed Miliband”, but today’s one was credited to shadow women’s minister Gloria De Piero. Alert readers will recognise the appeal as one we’ve been watching for 11 days now. It’s an attempt by the UK party to raise some cash to employ 10 campaign assistants specifically for Scottish Labour. The jobs are still openly listed as such on the Labour website’s situations-vacant page. Yet the party seems oddly reluctant to say so. Not one of the emails we’ve had about the fundraiser so far mentions Scotland. All three claim that the money is needed to fight “the Tories”. De Piero’s is the most specific, claiming that Labour needs the cash to fight in “the seats where the Tories are right on our tail”. But every one of the posts is in “Scottish Labour Party offices across Scotland”, and the Conservatives haven’t exactly been a notorious electoral force north of the border for some time. In fact, when we looked at every current Labour seat in Scotland, we found that the Tories are in second place in just seven of them, with absolutely none of those even remotely close enough to qualify as “right on our tail”: wingsoverscotland/under-false-pretences/
Posted on: Sat, 27 Dec 2014 22:24:33 +0000
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