LABOUR'S CHAOTIC CAMPAIGN DESCENDS INTO DISSEMBLING AND DISARRAY

LABOUR'S CHAOTIC CAMPAIGN DESCENDS INTO DISSEMBLING AND DISARRAY

"FICTION AND FANTASY" TO DIVERT ATTENTION FROM DISASTROUS FIRST WEEK

Labour's disastrous Scottish election campaign has now resorted to fiction
and fantasy in a bid to distract attention from a calamitous first week
for them, Stewart Hosie, the SNP's Westminster election campaign
coordinator, said today.

Mr Hosie said: "Labour's Scottish campaign blew up on the launchpad, and
now things are going from bad to worse for them.

"Their launch was totally blown apart, first by the SNP mocking their
poster before they had even unveiled their own and then by the revelations
of their disgraced candidate's online posts on Twitter - a debacle which
was a total humiliation for Jim Murphy.

"The Scottish Secretary was made to look utterly ridiculous. First he
tried to defend Stuart MacLennan but then within hours he was saying the
Moray candidate had to be sacked, after being overruled by Gordon Brown.

"This was after it was revealed Jim Murphy was too embarrassed to mention
either Labour or Gordon Brown by name in local newspaper adverts
circulating in the seat he is fighting."

Mr Hosie added: "Labour are clearly rattled by their disastrous first
week, as their behaviour on the campaign trail shows.

"Their ridiculous and totally over the top claims about the SNP's Keith
Brown shows how unsettled they are. Labour have resorted to fantasy and
fiction, and when pressed on the issue on the BBC's Politics Show today,
even Mr Murphy has now admitted that their claims regarding Mr Brown are
untrue.

"Labour's dissembling reveals how deeply rattled they are, and their
hypersensitivity and overreaction whenever the Prime Minister is
questioned about Iraq speaks volumes.

"The SNP's positive campaign is connecting with voters, who know that -
faced with the cuts threatened by the London parties - Scotland can only
be protected by electing a strong bloc of SNP local and national
champions."