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With just 7% of the vote, David Cameron knows his candidate has no chance of winning the Glasgow East byelection. Nonetheless, he visited the constituency yesterday to declare its problems symptomatic of the "breakdown Britain" he wants to cure. Tories can usually rely on a warm welcome in parts of the constituency, if only because their blue balloons are also the colour of Rangers FC. Sectarian passions, republican and Orange, remain part of the local mix along with its pockets of deep poverty, which have been getting rare media attention after the resignation of Labour's David Marshall triggered the hasty July 24 poll. Can SNP activists, who plastered local streets with their own yellow On Your Side posters at the weekend, snatch a historic win for respected local councillor David Mason, overturning Labour's 13,507-vote... [read full story]
