New candidate won't help weak and discredited Labour Party - Ritchie
March 23, 2010 3:38 PM
Commenting after Labour's National Executive rubber-stamped the East Lothian party's decision to deselect Anne Moffat, Liberal Democrat candidate for East Lothian Stuart Ritchie said:
"It doesn't matter to the people of East Lothian who the Labour candidate is. Whoever they end up with, Labour is falling apart here, but the Liberal Democrats are in second place and fighting hard.
"In Iain Gray's back yard, the Labour party are weak and discredited and choosing a new candidate won't change a thing."
Jim Hume MSP, Liberal Democrat MSP for the South of Scotland, accused the Labour party in East Lothian as 'floundering in disarray'.
He said: "The East Lothian Labour party have been so concerned with infighting and so preoccupied with discrediting one another, that they've forgotten what the real issues are in their own back yard.
"The people of East Lothian want to know that their elected representatives are spending their time fighting for local issues rather than fighting with each other.
"My postbag is filled with letters from people worried about losing the cadet force at Knox Academy, about the prospect of losing town centre economic viability and about the struggle to get by in such cash strapped times.
"I'm afraid that the Labour party has failed to represent the people and the issues of East Lothian."
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