Shona Thomson, Glasgow workers' leader, barred from Glasgow Labour selection Presiding over a pay scheme which discriminates against women workers is no barrier to being selected as Labour candidate for election to Westminster. But being a leader of the strike which put an end the scheme does not prevent you from being disqualified at the first stage of selection. And you can be old enough to join the army and kill people – but simultaneously be too young to be selected as a Labour candidate.
Shona Thomson, Glasgow workers' leader, barred from Glasgow Labour selection Presiding over a pay scheme which discriminates against women workers is no barrier to being selected as Labour candidate for election to Westminster. But being a leader of the strike which put an end the scheme does not prevent you from being disqualified at the first stage of selection. And you can be old enough to join the army and kill people – but simultaneously be too young to be selected as a Labour candidate.