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War overshadows campaign
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| Contributor | User 13 |
| Last Edited | User 13 Apr 04, 2003 03:36pm |
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| Category | General |
| Media | TV News - British Broadcasting Corporation BBC News |
| News Date | Friday, April 4, 2003 09:36:44 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | War overshadows campaign
The election vote is on 1 May
This is a strange, surreal campaign, writes BBC Scotland political correspondent John Knox.
It is a carnival taking place against a background of war.
Our problems of low growth, NHS waiting lists, school standards, drugs, young offenders, recycling targets seem so detailed and selfishly domestic when hundreds of people are being killed in the sands of Iraq.
But what else can the home politicians do?
Not much singing
Only Tommy Sheridan from the Scottish Socialist Party wants the election to be a referendum on the war.
He launched his party's manifesto this week outlining 200 policies but none of them, he said, was as important as stopping " the slaughter of innocents in Iraq."
The others have admitted the war dominates everything but they have persevered with their domestic campaigns all the same.
We have had a week, then, of campaigning without many frills... not much singing, no jokes, no men dressed as foxes or hedgehogs, none of the usual election madness.
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