• James Sillars (born 4 October 1937) is a Scottish politician and campaigner for Scottish independence. Sillars served as a Labour Party MP for South Ayrshire...
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  • Sillars is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Donald Sillars (1868–1905), Scottish footballer Jim Sillars (born 1937), Scottish politician...
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    Glasgow Govan, which their deputy leader Jim Sillars had taken from Labour in a by-election in 1988. Sillars quit active politics after the general election...
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    +0.1   Communist Gordon McLennan 38 0 0 0 0 N/A 0.1 16,858 0.0   SLP Jim Sillars 3 0 0 0 0 N/A 0.1 13,737 N/A   Workers Revolutionary Michael Banda 60...
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  • 1982, in Ayr, despite the 79 Group being bolstered by the merger of Jim Sillars' Scottish Labour Party (SLP) although this influx of ex-SLP members further...
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    in the 1988 Govan by-election, won by the Scottish National Party's Jim Sillars. Gillespie played drums for the band The Jesus and Mary Chain. Prior...
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    awarding of the contract for the two ferries. Former SNP Deputy Leader Jim Sillars accused the Scottish Government of criminal "misconduct in public office"...
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    Her second marriage was to politician and columnist Jim Sillars, whom she married in 1981. Sillars went on to win the 1988 Glasgow Govan by-election for...
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    the programme but had refused. The BBC said the programme contained Jim Sillars and Kenny MacAskill, who were supporters of Salmond. A later news story...
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    troops will never at any time be involved in the Vietnam conflict?" — Jim Sillars "It has always been our position that we did not believe that British...
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