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Channel 4 News General Election 2015 Live Blog
21 April 2015
  • Is sense at last breaking out?

    9:24 AM
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    • Alex Thomson Chief Correspondent

    Are real politics about to happen in this election?

    I can’t speak for rest of UK but I awake this morning to be told Scottish Labour leader Jim Murphy will address a street rally at St Enoch’s tube station on Glasgow at 11.

    Hallelujah and well done then!

    Scottish Labour Launch Their Election Manifesto

    Also no paranoid note from the press office email trying to tell the mainstream media not to publicise this in advance lest some real people might turn up.

    I have been outspoken for a long time about this plastic, unreal election – therefore it is time to say fair play to Mr Murphy and his team – and for doing so in Scotland’s biggest and pro-independent city as well.

    Today should be fun because it will be real – no PR clampdown on life; no stupid plastic wristbands of the SNP and Tory manifesto launches – real, open debate.

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21 April 2015