East Edinburgh Labour Party is another Falkirk in the making.

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• jenzie Posts: 20,821

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  31/12/13 - 01:16 #2

  simple solution to all this crap
  
  ANYONE WANT TO BE A MP?
  
  put your name in the hat and the local party will vote on who they want
  
  SCREW LISTS
  SCREW FAVOURITISM
  SCREW POLITICAL CORRECTNESS
  
  one list
  one vote

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• smudges dad Posts: 36,989

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  31/12/13 - 01:25 #3

  Is the East Edinburgh Tory deputy chairman a Walter Mitty character who invented his army career as well? Just wanting to check the analogy works fully.

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• Ethel_Fred Posts: 34,127

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  31/12/13 - 01:29 #4

  Rowan Hedge wrote: »

  Thankfully the thug has been locked up but it looks like the intimidation from Lindsay and his associates will continue though against party members who want rid of Walker.

  Here's the case
  
  Don't know how it shows intimidation against Labour Party members

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• Rowan Hedge Posts: 3,861

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  31/12/13 - 12:59 #5

  Ethel_Fred wrote: »

  Here's the case
  
  Don't know how it shows intimidation against Labour Party members

  
  Well I have been threatened by associates of walker and that vile thug Lindsay because I'm vocal about a councillor who is as sleazy as the jailed thug, I only rejoined because I wanted to support other party members in trying to have walker removed as candidate for councillor.
  
  When criminals hold sway over elected members then only bad things can come of it.

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• boardboy Posts: 262

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  31/12/13 - 13:42 #6

  Rowan Hedge wrote: »

  Recently it has come to be known that there is something rotten in the EELP, members are at war and we have recently had to endure the embarrament that a councillor named David Walker has links to a well known thug named John Lindsay who runs a security company which is nothing more than a front for rather sleazy dealings, well a few weeks ago we learn that same councillor wrote a letter on council notepaper in way of a character reference for the same thug mentioned above who tortured and poured boiling water other another man. Thankfully the thug has been locked up but it looks like the intimidation from Lindsay and his associates will continue though against party members who want rid of Walker.
  
  I have only recently rejoined the party but I'm appalled at the allegation that all the names and addresses of members where passed on to those with an interest in keeping Walker as a councillor and as canditate for next council elections. We need an investigation into the corruption and party links with families/companies allegedly involved in criminal activities but strangely we cannot get Ed to take an interest.
  
  I'm hearing mumbling from other members that EELP is firmly in the pocket of the Lindsay family, local politics has always been a quagmire but when party members feel intimidated to support certain members then local democracy suffers.

  
  Any member of the Labour Party who has a complaint can contact the General Secretary
  Ian Price
  Scottish General Secretary
  290 Bath Street, Glasgow
  G2 4RE
  http://www.scottishlabour.org.uk

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• Ethel_Fred Posts: 34,127

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  31/12/13 - 15:22 #7

  Rowan Hedge wrote: »

  Well I have been threatened by associates of walker and that vile thug Lindsay because I'm vocal about a councillor who is as sleazy as the jailed thug, I only rejoined because I wanted to support other party members in trying to have walker removed as candidate for councillor.
  
  When criminals hold sway over elected members then only bad things can come of it.

  
  If all you do is moan then they will get away with it

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