Eric Joyce’s CLP want their money back…

The Scottish Herald reports:

“A furious member of Falkirk Labour Party claimed: “He says the reason for not resigning as an MP is because he was elected personally, not the Labour Party. If that’s the case we want our money back.

“We have agreed to write to him asking for the £3000 election expenses we provided.”

He said Labour members would consider legal action to recover the money – spent on helping return Mr Joyce to Westminster with a 7843 majority in the 2010 poll – if he refused to refund it.

The source added: “The feeling within the Constituency Labour Party is very strong. There is a lot of anger that Eric Joyce was foisted upon us by John Smith House [Labour HQ] and we are determined this time to choose our own candidate. We feel unrepresented because we do not have a Labour MP in Falkirk.”

Local activists hope to have a prospective candidate in place by the end of the year.”

This is almost certainly a non-starter, but it shows the depth of anger towards Joyce from within his former CLP…

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