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Tory councillor Thomas Kerr: no one knows what Labour stands for

Councillor Thomas Kerr

Labour has no one ‘cutting through’ in Scottish politics and no one knows what they stand for, according to a Tory councillor.

Thomas Kerr, 21, a Tory councillor in the Glasgow Shettleston region said: “I would rather trust an SNP politician because I know what they stand for… The problem with Labour, and why they're in such a bad state right now in Scotland, is no one quite knows what they stand for.

“Are they pro-union? Are they anti-union? Are they going to let yes campaigners become councillors? How many people have I met before in my life that say: ‘I don’t like your politics, but I know what you stand for.’ People like that as a principle.”

Kerr accredited the reason for his party’s success to Labour, saying: “The reason why we are doing so well in Glasgow -and, in particular, Shettleston- is because of Frank McAveety and because of Labour, because they’ve been in charge for 40-odd years and people just fell out of love with them."

Thomas Kerr was a surprise victory for the Tories in the 2017 council elections, as the-then 20-year-old was only beaten into 2nd place by former Glasgow City Council Leader Frank McAveety.
Kerr slammed Labour politicians such as McAveety as flip-flopping over their support for Jeremy Corbyn.


Glasgow Labour Leader Frank McAveety
He said: “When you’ve got somebody like Frank McAveety or Kate Watson, who is the candidate I stood against in Glasgow East [in the 2017 General Election], who called for him to resign, who attacked him constantly, who said he was killing the Labour party to then completely flip-flop over an election campaign and say he’s the best thing since sliced bread and that we are all Corbynistas now; that’s the type of reason people don’t trust Labour.”
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