Janey Buchan

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SAD to hear of the death of fiery Labour politician Janey Buchan.
Ken Smith
heraldscotland.com
18 January 2012

We remember when she was standing as Labour's European candidate, and her campaign bus was slowly going down Byres Road with the chap on board bellowing through the loudspeaker :"Vote Buchan. Vote Labour." As usual, the speakers weren't of the best quality as the bus was stopped by the police and the Labour volunteers told they had to stop swearing. The officers thought the chap had been shouting "Vote fuckin Labour".

JANEY, a woman of strong views, didn't always see eye-to-eye with fellow politician George Galloway. But George says that when he was a callow youth, Janey took him to his first silver-service lunch at the Station Hotel in Perth to meet the then general secretary of the Labour Party, Ron Hayward. George later recalled that he didn't know which cutlery to use but was going to follow Janey. "The trouble was Janey could really talk," said George later. "As Hayward ploughed through his lunch, Janey wouldn't shut her mouth and eat. And neither therefore could I. It was excruciating."



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To be fair, that's probably a choice edit.