Glasgow Central by-election, 1989

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	House of Commons Hansard Debates for 3 May 1989
		Glasgow's environment must be well to the fore in the minds of the electorate of Glasgow, Central.
		Glasgow Green is an historical area in the Glasgow, Central constituency that has incredible connotations for the Scottish working class movement.
		It is city-wide, but the central part of Glasgow in which the constituency lies plays a major part in providing the necessary facilities for that cultural feast in Glasgow.
	www.parliament.the-stationery-office.co.uk /pa/cm198889/cmhansrd/1989-05-03/Debate-3.html

	House of Commons Hansard Debates for 3 May 1989
		Member for Hamilton, would disagree that this matter deserves an early decision at the Glasgow, Central by-election.
		In Glasgow, Central, right in the heart of Clydeside, where we have lived with Polaris and are to be told to live with Trident, there are umpteen experts on the nuclear issue.
		In Glasgow, Central there is a large churchgoing public of all denominations--the mosque is also found in that constituency.
	www.parliament.the-stationery-office.co.uk /pa/cm198889/cmhansrd/1989-05-03/Debate-5.html

	Michael Goodall Watson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		He was elected to the Parliament of the United Kingdom in a 1989 by-election for the Glasgow Central constituency.
		In 1999 he was elected to the Scottish Parliament to represent the Glasgow Cathcart constituency and was reelected in 2003.
		He was re-elected in the 1992 election and represented that constituency until it was abolished in 1997.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mike_Watson

	Michael Goodall Watson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Watson was elected to the Parliament of the United Kingdom in a 1989 by-election for the Glasgow Central constituency.
		He sought the nomination from the Labour party to run for the Govan seat in 1997, but after initially winning the nomination by one vote, he lost a re-run to Mohammad Sarwar, after which Watson received a Life peerage.
		Michael Goodall Watson, Baron Watson of Invergowrie (born 1 May 1949) was a British Labour politician.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mike_Watson (549 words)

	Alex Neil - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Neil would go on to become the SNP's Publicity Director, and then in charge of the party's policy, as well as a candidate in the 1989 Glasgow Central by-election, and candidate in the 1992 and 1997 General Elections.
		Alex Neil was born in 1951 in Patna, East Ayrshire, Scotland.
		Neil is, unsurprisingly given his background, on the left of the SNP, and is known as a fundamentalist, critical of the gradualist wing.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Alex_Neil (549 words)

	Red Clydeside - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation Red Clydeside
		At the 1989 Glasgow Central by-election, the Scottish National Party (SNP)candidate Alex Neil called himself and the then SNP MP for Govan Jim Sillars the "new Clydesiders".
		It was a term that was brought into popular consciousness by the newspapers referring to the political militancy of the time.
		Whilst local troops based in the Maryhill barracks in the city were locked inside their posting, English troops and tanks were put onto the streets to control any unrest and extinguish any revolution that should materialise (which it of course didn't).
	www.encyclopedia-glossary.com /en/Red-Clydeside.html (911 words)

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