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Listed below are comments made by maudeg between Wednesday, 18th June 2008 and Thursday, 1st October 2009.

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Seven months for The Sun to boost Cameron 08:00am on 01 Oct 2009 Just curious -anyone know what percentage of the Sun readership actually vote?
Business as usual? 7:42pm on 25 Jul 2008 This is chickens coming home to roost time for Labour (speaking as a Labour party member)

Party organisation: On the ground ,nonexistent. Recall that less than 50 Labour Patty members turned up to select Margaret Curran, The candidates who turned up on the night of the no show weren’t even considered good enough to make that selection.

Talent: Too many bench warmers not enough talent. To succeed in the Labour party requires too much currying favour and doesn’t encourage the challengers, the provocateurs. It’s time to call time on the time servers-get some fresh faces and seem fresh ideas. Ditch the deadwood
Independence: Polls consistently tell us that the Scottish electorate don’t want independence, instead of exploiting this –by talking seriously by fiscal autonomy, and a solution to the West Lothian question. The Labour Party persists with Armageddon prophecies, the passports at the border stories (check out Germany, Spain ....). No one believes it and no one is scared

Just do it: Stephen Purcell talking wistfully on BBC last night about the Labour Party being more radical. Wake up Stephen –you’re leader of Glasgow City Council, got radical solutions? Let’s see them

As for Glasgow East, good luck, you’ll get more attention than you have for the last generation and you deserve it!!
Wendy resigns 10:59pm on 01 Jul 2008 I’m a 40 something woman who joined the Labour Party 10 years ago- eventually caved into the “you won’t change it from the outside” line of argument. Little chance of changing things from the inside I’m afraid –long since stopped going to meetings-I think the aim is to bore to death anyone with half a brain. In my area only the very committed and the very lonely turn out to the meetings.

For those of us on the Labour side of politics this is like watching a slow motion car crash. Dear God –what kind of black comedy is this when Charlie Gordon is considering a leadership bid –the man who solicited the donation replacing the woman who accepted it?

The Labour parliamentary group is desperately need of an injection of new ideas, whether this comes from young candidates or old –we need different candidates–I ‘d guess that the vast majority of sitting Labour members are either ex Councillors or ex union officials.

Alex Salmond did the Labour Party a favour keeping the Cabinet small -any bigger and the gaps in talent would have been even more dramatically exposed
As Brian Wilson commented a few months ago about the current Labour leadership –forgot everything learned nothing

BTW –doesn’t the Glasgow by-election date clash with the Glasgow Fair holidays?
Outbreak control 11:35pm on 18 Jun 2008 Just watched the Newsnight coverage -I'm a bit lost around the conspiracy angle on this. If Jackie Baillie's local newspaper knew-didn't they tell her?...she says they've been following it for some time. Why didn't she go public and call the Health Board to account? Too much politicking ( from everyone) not enough addressing the issues.

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