Douglas Alexander
@D_G_Alexander
@ScottishLabour & @ScotCoopParty PPC for East Lothian. Visiting Prof. NYU, & @KingsCollegeLon. Council Member @ecfr. personal account.
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19-02-2010 11:43:29
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The East Lothian Labour team out this afternoon *enjoying* pretty much every season of weather while listening to and talking with residents in North Berwick.
Great to drop in to meet the brilliant The Pennypit Trust team at their much valued lunch club for local kids in Preston Lodge High School with Cllr Shamin Akhtar & Martin Whitfield MSP.
This article is a worthy tribute to the extraordinary work done every week by Cyrenians. I’ve spent time with Ewan Aitken 🇺🇦 & the team and seen for myself their deep commitment to tackling homelessness & food insecurity in Edinburgh & the Lothians. 👏 edinburghinquirer.co.uk/p/moments-of-j…
In his final speech as Labour Leader John Smith spoke these words: “The opportunity to serve – that is all we ask”.
As Scottish Labour each day we’re listening, working & campaigning to once again be given that opportunity.
When Liz Truss said “the jury is out” on whether Emmanuel Macron was a friend or foe she reflected the carelessness & destructiveness of the Conservatives’ approach to Europe.
Rebuilding trust & credibility with our friends & allies in Europe would be an urgent task for Labour.
Thank you, as ever, for a brilliant effort this week from the East Lothian Labour team.
Let other parties be distracted or demotivated by the polls.
We take nothing for granted.
We’re motivated, determined, and we’re working hard for every vote.
Here’s the perfectly named street for the electoral trajectory of Scottish Labour!
One resident in Gullane today even told me how impressed she’d been by the cello playing of Thangam Debbonaire at a recent meeting for Orchestras.
Real sense it’s time for cello.😉 😂
If you read nothing else today read this searingly honest piece by Jonathan Freedland that combines real understanding, political insight & the gut wrenching revulsion so many of us feel observing what has unfolded in Southern Israel & Gaza over these last months. theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
Good to spend the afternoon listening to and talking with voters in Dunbar with our East Lothian Labour team.
It’s hard to overstate just how scunnered voters feel right now with both the SNP & the Conservatives.
And there’s a sense in East Lothian that it’s time for change
Great to join Martin Whitfield MSP this morning at the ASDA Dunbar store to meet colleagues and to hear about both the continuing challenge of retail crime and the brilliant work being done to support East Lothian organisations by their community champions.
If “The Assassin” is half as good as the stories Tom Fletcher used to regularly tell in Number 10 then it’ll definitely be worth reading. He’s one of the best.