Both Labour and the Nationalists are expected to spend up to £100,000 on the forthcoming by-election in Glasgow North East, with much of Labour’s funding for the campaign coming from the party’s London headquarters and from trade unions.
One of the benefits of meeting with LPUK Scotland this weekend was to realise what is going on outside of the Londoncentric political bubble.
The Labour Party is in deep mire in Scotland and is totally dependent on the South for its funding, the SNP is raising nine times as much money as the Scottish Labour Party.
As I have had little to do with the politics of the SNP, I asked the first meeting of LPUK Scotland were they stood in the political firmament.
With measures like raising the drinking age to 21, and independence in reality meaning the desire to transfer financial subsidies from the United Kingdom Treasury to, from the EU Treasury they appear to be very much in the big Tax big State and big Spend as the other three parties.
As I was given the guided tour of Edinburgh coming in from the Airport, I was shown Hubris Towers a massive headquaters set in palatial grounds and its own bridge emblazoned with the RBS logo. The fact that it was sitting in the grounds of a former lunatic asylum spoke volumes.
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I saw that too, Funny that.
Are we putting anyone up in Glasgow North East?
That decision will be on the LPUK Scotland Blog
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