Joyce brings shame to Falkirk

The news that local Falkirk MP, Eric Joyce has, once again, brought ridicule to Falkirk this time by having the highest expenses claim of any MP in the UK has come as no surprise to Falkirk SNP activists.

Memories of the 2000 Falkirk West by-elections remain fresh on how Eric Joyce was portrayed by Labour's London spin doctors as being the local candidate when his family home was in Kent. Indeed New Labour even had the audacity to claim that the SNP by-election candidate, David Kerr could not properly represent the people of Falkirk West from his home in Cumbernauld.

Speaking to the Falkirk West SNP Michael Matheson MSP said,

"Eric is becoming a figure of ridicule nationally. Not only is he the figure New Labour trot out to defend the policies no other Labour backbencher would he is the epitome of what is rotten within the system of government we have.

Each time Eric holds a local surgery, which mercifully for the taxpayer isn't often, the cost of a return flight from his home in the South East of England is charged. That is not healthy for local democracy and local accountability."