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I WAS incensed by AA Gill’s article (Welcome to Glasgow East: the hardest, poorest place in Britain, News, last week). I live in Glasgow East and will be voting on July 24. My husband and I have a job each, we own our own house, have a car and I have a degree from Edinburgh University. I don’t carry a knife or smoke and we don’t go to the pub in shell suits. I imagine I will be one of the few people voting for Davena Rankin and agree that she may well lose her deposit.
I can only assume Gill was as pompous and patronising as he was because he assumed no one from the east end of Glasgow would read his article. Sarah McVey Barlanark, Glasgow
Votes, not votives: Gill says this is an overwhelmingly Catholic seat. I am a Scottish Catholic and have never voted Labour and never will. No priest in any church I have attended has ever tried to influence my vote.
Katherine Longmuir
Eriskay, The Outer Islands
Benefits of poverty: The citizens of Glasgow East are far from neglected. They receive the fruits of others’ labour in abundance – free health service, free education, incapacity benefit, housing benefit, council tax benefit. They are the privileged ones.
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Midsomer Norton
Bath and East Somerset
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Oh well David, at least Margaret will get 2 votes!
Kenny, Greenock,
David
Which proves what ?
Bernard, Edinburgh, Scotland
I am also a Glasgow East voter. We own my own home and we are a two car family, with degrees from Glasgow Caledonian University and University of Houston. It is quite awful how the place has been blackened by the press (and SNP). Many young professionals have moved there, we'll be voting LABOUR!
David , Glasgow, United Kingdom