SPEAKING to voters on the streets of Rutherglen – ahead of a much-anticipated Westminster by-election in the area on Thursday – there was one…
by-election in the area on Thursday – there was one clear sentiment repeated again and again: none of the parties can be trusted to deliver, so why bother with any of them?“I’m getting old now and I’ve been hearing the same rhetoric for 40, 50 years. I won’t be supporting any of them,” one voter said.We hit the streets of Rutherglen to ask locals who they’d be backing in Thursday’s by-election.
A third person said they were backing “the Labour man, Michael something” because he is representing a party which will stand up for the working class. Instead, some voters were supporting parties for reasons that pre-date even the most recent General Elections. Nowhere was this summed up better than the one voter who said she would be backing the Conservatives.Her primary reason for supporting the Tory candidate was wanting to remain British, not just Scottish, and a concern that Labour were too weak on the issue of the Union to truly stand up for her views.
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