My wee film about Glasgow East will be shown on BBC Daily Politics today. I’ve blogged plenty about this, but if CoffeeHousers will indulge me here’s my take on the debate so far. There has been some controversy about the claim that life expectancy there is worse than the Gaza Strip; part of this is down to the left’s inability to comprehend the extent of the poverty their policies have nurtured there. But the Gaza comparison is actually a gross understatement.
Male life expectancy for the whole of Glasgow, including its lush suburbs, averages 70.7 years – worse than Gaza’s 71.01 years. In East Glasgow, it goes right down to 53.9 years in the Calton ward (see here for a full rundown). It is tragic comic to see Labour taking such a philosophical attitude to the scandalous deprivation in Glasgow East during this election campaign as if they were talking about the weather.
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