Labour vote slumps in Glasgow Central

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In the wake of redundancies, cuts in public expenditure, THE by-election in Glasgow Central was held on Wednesday of last week, the day after the announcement of the worst unemployment figures in Scotland since 1939.

While the results confirm the growth of anti-government feeling in Scotland, with the Tory candidate picking up a derisory 700 votes and losing his deposit, they also show that the working class can still be won to the programme of the Scottish National Party.

Labour won but its vote fell from 8,542 in the general election to 4,902, its share of the poll dropping from 73 per cent to 61 per cent. It was the SNP which gained, its share of the pol! rising The reasons for the Labour Party's poor performance are not hard to determine. I. Party is hardly seen as the champion of the Scottish working class,, and attacks on wages, the Labour,