Whilst I have no love at all for New Labour or for Gordon Brown and whilst I wouldn't be sad if they lost this seat (they deserve to lose it) I wouldn't want the SNP to gain it as I don't want to see the United Kingdom splitting apart.

Barry, Brentwood, United Kingdom

I'm sure Strathclyde Police will step in and ask all these Labour MPs to stay away on (their own) H & S grounds, since there probably aren't enough stabproof vests to go round.

Gordon Alexander, Frome, UK

Please grow-up Donald, you do a grave disservice to Scotland calling it a "colony". I think you will find that Scotland has never been a "colony" and isn't now. Certainly, that would be the opinion of the many from poor areas of Glasgow like GE who proudly serve in our army!

Barry, Brentwood, United Kingdom

oh its going to be sooooooooooo good when nulaba lose

peter c, devizes, wessex

'MPs struggling to hide their lack of enthusiasm for campaigning in one of the grimmest constituencies in Britain'

Isn't a Labour MP's job description to represent the poorest in society?

If that quotation is true, then they need to be fired by their employer.....

Rhys Jaggar, Leeds, UK

Margaret (£750k house) Curran. Voice of the people? I think not!

It's in the interests of Scots to rediscover their Tory heritage instead of continually voting in Labour's career policiticians whose livelihoods depend on maintaining the tatus quo. Never wonder why nothing changes?

colin, Glasgow, UK

As Iain Duncan Smith responded to the chant of "We vote Labour round here" - "Exactly, and see where its got you."

Morvern, Glasgow, UK

Do they expect us to believe them? They want our vote so they can get elected and fiddle with their expenses

damon, everton, uk

Dear Gordon,
Its time for Labour to get back to basics and Glasgow East is a constituency that should be a heartland.It could happen that the people you have deserted turn their backs on you.Blair gave us Liberal Labour ,turn time back or expect a negative judgement.The very poor are suffering.

john stein, inverurie, scotland

If, labour wins this seat after decades of neglect, then the people of East Glasgow will have shown their comtempt for themselves, and for their homeland.

McGann, London, UK

If the people in Glasgow East are poor and as a result are too socialist as a result of poverty, then what does this say about 300 years of government from London ?, as a colony.

Good bye London ( or will this result in blood shed like every other part of the world where you have been)

Donald, Inverness, Scotland

I see that Margaret Curran is promising to do in two years what her party has taken 10 years NOT to do.

gerard mcguigan, dundee, scotland

i cant stand brown or the labour party,but i do hope they win the by election. at least then brown will continue for a further two years , which will be enough time for the vast majority to oust labour for a very long time

russell, Newton Abbot, uk

What has Labour ever done for the residents of Glasgow East. After all the years of voting Labour, the residents live in appalling conditions & many of them have hopeless lives on the poverty line & kept there by Labour's dependency welfare policies. They have nothing to lose by voting for change.

Donna Walker, Effingham, England

Is this a revenge thing? We 'down here' suffer [under protest] the interference of Scottish constituency MPs participating in our affairs, but what do you think the voters of Glasgow will say to English MPs turning up on their doorsteps? I'd love to hear their comments!

S. Barraclough, Huddersfield, W. Yorkshire

Won't the cost of the train tickets count against the election spending limit, no matter who pays for them?

Ganesh Sittampalam, St Neots, England

Its not in Glagow East electorate's interests to vote for SNP as it would damage The Labour Party and further increase The Conservative Party's chances of getting into power in UK Parliament. And we all know how disasterous the last Conservative Goverment was for normal working people.

Ian Smith, Gtr Manchester, England, UK.

I turn my nose up at people on council estates, they all are shirkers and do bad things and shop in nasty shops like aldi and asda. When my consultancy goes to glasgow we hold our noses whilst we write huge invoices to the council, then we get in our 3.0 litre cars and rush back to Winchester.

Ian Caveney, Oldham, England, UK.

Hi from a "pond dweller" who will be voting SNP

robert clark, glasgow, scotland

Most of the Glasgow East voters are 'pond life'
Charles, Winchester, UK

I object strongly to Charles's opinion. Many of the "Pond dwellers" are serving in our army, fighting our wars. They are The Best. I wonder if Charles from Winchester has the courage and moral to do the same.

Phil, Warington, England

The prospect of every single Labour MP visiting Glasgow East virtually guarantees an SNP victory. Gordon Brown just doesn't seem to understand that nobody wants him at No. 10. Everyone wants revenge on him for the car tax fiasco.

Dave Griffin, Ilfracombe, UK

If they do not win Brown's head will be on the block. Can we borrow a guillotine from Sarkozy? However a 22% swing is unlikely given the number of benefit receivers in the constituency!

M. Cawdery, CRAIGAVON, Co. UK, EU.

When you say "every Labour MP" must campaign in Glasgow East, you are not quite correct. Isn't it, every Labour MP except for one? The leader of the party will be nowhere to be seen. This is stacking up to be one of the best elections ever: something for almost everyone to relish.

R M, London, UK

I can't see what the point is in sending Westminster MP's up to devolved Scotland. Their writ does not extent to Scotland.
The problems faced by people in Glasgow is the responsibility of the Scottish Parliament

gadgie, pRESTON, eNGLAND

the tide is turning in scotland , however i read with interest margaret currens remarks about redistribution of wealth in the east end of glasgow, this will be seen as taking the money off the people who have a job and go to work and giving it to those who do not have a job and never will have a job

barry muir, Glasgow, Scotland

Of course Labour MPs don't want to go there. It's a poor place, with poor people, and someone just might remind them of why they came into politics (supposedly). There are no 5* restaurants, no claret, and it's cold and wet at the moment. Nope, they certainly won't be happy. Is Brown coming?

tris, dundee,

Most of the Glasgow East voters are 'pond life' but I expect some of them will have the intelligence to switch their votes to SNP. Not enough though. Depressing isn't it?

Charles, Winchester, UK

I am soo concerned that the hard up liebour m.p's will not be reimbursed for the trainfare from london to glasgow, there must be some way of getting round this imposition on these poor people, perhaps john lewis may have some suggestions

seumas, fearn, scotland

The west central Scotland Labour party is now seen by the electorate as corrupt and bigoted I'm afraid. Why should we vote for people who openly and proudly wear their religious affiliations at the expense of the majority.

Glasgow City chambers is now known as Sinn Fein HQ, vote out the bigots.

Willam Anderson, Glasgow, uk

'The Broons' and 'Oor Wullie'' have been Scotland's favourite comic characters over many decades and have made millions smile and laugh.
Now we / they have Oor Gordy, who is only a laughing stock and couldn't raise a laugh if he read out Ronnie Corbett's scripts.
We get the laughs at PMQs.

Padraig, Perth, Australia

And when they win this ultra safe seat they will say it is a vindication of Gordon Browns leadership and policies, how wrong and misguided they will be. even an ostrich has a better view of the world and the reality of british politics

james, southampton, england

From the daily mail....."Labour candidate Margaret Curran brushed off criticism that she had lied about living in the East End when in fact she lives in a detached house worth around GBP1m in Newlands on the South Side"
Curran should hang her lying head in shame.
The liebour mob are finished.

robert, Glasgow, Scotland

Labour have done nothing for Glasgow east in decades.and Glasgow city council are struggling with commonwealth games ,its time to ditch this shower,cant wait for England to ditch them for the thatcher mob.

Eric Reynolds, GLASGOW , SCOTLAND

Could we get them to stay there?

Peter, Genova, Italy

Labour should win - it is the natural home of the parasitic,feckless,benefit-chasing hordes who live lives of minimum aspiration and maximum state dependence.This is mirrored by the Labour politicians they vote for who gorge themselves at taxpayers'expense

jim lough, newcastle, england

Anna Margaret Curran who claimed she lived in Glasgow East "all my life", when confronted with the fact that she has actually lived in South Glasgow for the last 21 years explained that she "has a family" and wouldn't raise her children there. I guess its only fit for labour voters not politicians.

Callum, Jakarta, Indonesia

True, it is a wonderful experience to see the death of Nu labour and the rebirth of this once great nation

RIP Brown's blunder years

john, BATH,

So what has Labour done for Glasgow East in the last decade?

Mike, Macau,

Will 'captain courage' Gordon Brown be going there to campaign? Perhaps he can go to a place that labour has kept as some kind of third world theme park and explain his visions? Yeah that will work! Perhaps he can phone them all up to explain how 11 yrs of NuLabour have helped them?

Stephanie King, larnaca, Cyprus

They are unlikely to lose. This is spin. The third safest labour seat in a town that would elect a monkey with a red rosette? Get real. And the election is being held in the middle of the holiday exodus. Anyone with the brains to kick ZanuLab out will be in Spain that week. Pure spin.

David B, LARKHALL, UK

Get real, Labour have made sure that they have a Catholic candidate in East Glasgow and have already started to make slurs against the non-catholic SNP candidate. This is west of Scotland politics going back to the 1950's and everyone outside Glasgow should understand this.

Peter, Nottingham,

Labour will win this seat. They have a feisty candidate who will turn it all around. They have nothing to fear!

Craig, Glenrothes,

And the carbon footprint of three Labour hundred MPs travelling hundreds of miles from Lonon to Glasgow is ?

S O'Louhlin, Huddersfield, UK

Labour are finished north as well as south of the border.

It is truly wonderful to be able to witness the implosion of the New Labour project.

History will not protect the likes of Blair, Brown and Mandleson; they are traitors and will be exposed and denounced for what they have done to us.

Andrew Murray, London, Great Britain

Turkeys dont vote for xmas, all those state dependents will vote labour, its a blueprint for how Gordon and the gang would like the rest of the UK.

Martin, Tenerife , Spain

I hope they are followed round by a large cintingent of the populus, shouting failures!

John Kerr, Edinburgh, Scotland

I prey Labour loses !!!!!

Ian Payne, walsall,

The latest poll has Labour ahead of the SNP by 14-points.

Toby, Surbiton, UK

Time for a Stuart backlash - send those Anglo-Labour MPs back!! To have go there with no expenses, oh dear, oh dear. I'm surprised they don't all go and buy a house in the constituency (with our money, of course). Guess they won't take their families with on this 'jolly'. Running scared.

Dr Ian Burgess, Bristol,

Question: When did a senior politician visit Glasgow east?

Answer: Not for 40 years

What a pure mess labour is in. Their past is finally catching up with them. May they get what they deserve.

R MacDonald, Perth, Scotland

Let’s not forget that Wendy said:
“I accept that there are inaccuracies in the list of donations submitted..to the Electoral Commission …In a few cases, there was ambiguity as to whether donations were given personally by an individual with a controlling interest in a company or from a corporate account.. . I did inadvertently break the law … ":

"In retrospect I regret not going to two individuals and saying “give us £7,500 each”.

http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/s3/committees/stanproc/reports-08/stprr08-06.htm

Donald, Dumfries,