Published Date: 06 July 2008 "LABOUR?" growled pensioner Davie Robb outside the Centaur Bar in Easterhouse. "That lot are so hopeless that Chipperfield's wouldnae take them on as clowns." He and his cronies wheezed with laughter as they pointed to a red and yellow poster that is hanging precariously from a lamppost. As the by-election circus rolls into Glasgow East, it is fair to say that Prime Minister Gordon Brown's party doesn' t have its troubles to seek. Councillor George Ryan was on the brink of being named as Labour's candidate, but performed a dramatic last-minute disappearing act that Paul Daniels would have been proud of. Despite having not so much as a proverbial donkey to pin a red rosette on, Labour has set up a campaign HQ at Shandwick Square Shopping Centre at the heart of this sprawling and socially-deprived...
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