DOROTHY GRACE ELDER COMES OUT FOR SSP

At a Press Conference today, the former SNP MSP Dorothy Grace Elder announced that she was backing the Scottish Socialist Party in the election.

She said,
“The SNP no longer represents the ordinary people of Glasgow. The SSP reflects much more my concerns for the poor, the sick and the oppressed. Although I am not a member of any political party, I feel the SSP is attracting a lot of good people, like Rosie Kane here in Glasgow. I will be happy to give her the benefit of my experience of environmental campaigns in future. I give my full support to Tommy Sheridan, Rosie and the SSP across Scotland and would urge people to use their peach-coloured 2nd vote for the SSP.”

Dorothy’s former Assistant Evelyn McKechnie, a long-standing SNP member before she also quit the party to join the SSP last year, said,
“The SNP has deserted the grass-roots activists. I feel that to achieve independence we have to gain the Labour heartlands across Glasgow, the West of Scotland and the central belt and that is why I am out here campaigning for the SSP.”

Tommy Sheridan, SSP National Convenor said,
“I am delighted to get support from Dorothy. She was one of the best MSPs in the last Parliament, fighting tirelessly on behalf of the people of Glasgow. I hope that I and another SSP MSP can carry on the campaign she began for the people of Glasgow and Scotland.”
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