The Labour Party are continuing their terminal decline after another shock by-election result. Tonights result represents yet another startling and humiliating defeat for the Labour party, particularly as this one has occurred in their once safe seat of Glasgow East. A Labour majority of over 13,000 has been turned over night in to an SNP majority of 365. The Labour party can um and arr as

Labour lost their third safest seat in Scotland yesterday as the voters of Glasgow East punished the Government for rising food and fuel prices. A 13,500 majority for Labour was transformed into a 365 vote win for the Scottish National Party, a result sure to have wide repercussions for Labour both in Scotland and at Westminster. Reacting to the defeat, Gordon Brown brushed aside suggestions that ...

After the Scottish National party captured Glasgow East in last July's byelection, its leader began to look unassailable. Glasgow East was the third safest Labour seat in Scotland and Gordon Brown had been kept away from the campaign in case he lost his party even more votes. Alex Salmond, by contrast, was the popular leader of a successful party - quick, confident, a nifty television perform...

After the humiliating Glasgow East by-election in July I wrote: "So who voted Labour in Glasgow East? In simple terms it was pensioners and people on benefit. "Labour got 11,000 votes - just about the number it had been promised. These people voted during the day on Thursday. It wasn't far off the almost 19,000 they polled in the general election. "So Labour should have won. And would have do...

NEW figures on Scotland's jobless total have revealed a mixed picture as unemployment fell by 10,000 at the same time as the number of claimants increased.

A careless Labour party official has mislaid a 'lines to take' document intended for government ministers, following the Glasgow East by-election humiliation.As luck would have it, it's fallen into my hands. It was clearly written before the result was declared.It begins..... (Glasgow Win) Glasgow East was a good result, but that doesn't mean we are complacent........(Glasgow other) this is clearl...

Despite his non-appearance on the campaign in Glasgow East, Gordon Brown's new NewLabour still managed to lose their third strongest seat in Scotland to the SNP, a hitherto small anti-union party for which Labour provided the ideal growth medium by its cack-handed policies (similar to the growth of Sinn Fein in Northern Ireland).Given the failure of its policies in Scotland, its rejection by the e...

The Glasgow East defeat will enter the record books as one of the most stunning defeats inflicted upon the governing party of the day.The nearest equivalent in recent times was Christchurch in 1993. This was the Conservatives' 15th safest seat - even more rock solid on paper than Glasgow E was for Labour.The repository for the protest vote were the Liberal Democrats, who overturned a 23,000 Tory ...

I've been in Glasgow three times over the past fortnight. I like the city. It's sad therefore to read this:Glasgow is home to the most workless households in the UK, according to the Office for National Statistics, (ONS).From reading certain southern blogs I know that some will say: "Well, that's Scotland for you. Load of welfare bums, aren't they?"Not quite:However, Scotland as a whole had the

Has Alastair Campbell come to the rescue of Gordon Brown, and gone to Scotland to advise the Labour Party on tactics in Glasgow East? Yesterday morning Mr Campbell was spotted eating breakfast in the Crutherland House Hotel in East Kilbride, only a few miles from the Glasgow East constituency. The hotel subsequently confirmed to a colleague from BBC Scotland today that Tony Blair's former spin-doc...