Pay Candidate (25/11/14)



A regular reader from North Lanarkshire has been in touch with an 'off the wall' suggestion - why doesn't an Equal Pay candidate stand against one of the sitting North Lanarkshire Labour MPs in the May 2015 general election?

Now this might not be as crazy as you first think because, as I wrote on the blog site recently, the SNP have agreed to support 'independent minded' candidates (who are not SNP members) in an effort to cut the Labour Party at Westminster down to size.

Which sounds a great idea because Labour has an awful lot to answer for over equal pay and the best way to get the Party to take a long hard look at itself if you ask me, would be to sweep away all the political deadwood at Westminster.

And a good place to start would be with the four North Lanarkshire Labour MPs who have stood on the sidelines while the fight for equal pay with Labour-run North Lanarkshire Council has been raging for the past 10 years.

Now my contacts with the SNP are not great, but I imagine there must be readers in North Lanarkshire who are able to speak to their local SNP councillor or MSP and discuss the idea in more detail.  

Because wouldn't it be just great of one of the Equal Pay claimants, a Home Carer perhaps, were to stand in the forthcoming election and give the Labour MPs a real showing up for their cowardly political behaviour? 

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