The Curious Tale of the TWIN Labour Parties

An investigation, originally posted in August 2019 on Tumblr.

Even though both the companies mentioned have now been dissolved, it's still an interesting read on a usually unseen element of the Scottish Independence debate…

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You may have seen some postings on social media, about Scottish Labour setting up two limited companies in Scotland - “for some reason”, being banded about by the usual cyberNats and the National “newspaper” .

Now, it did seem a little “unusual” for the Labour party two set up two separate companies in Scotland, so I did a little digging…

PLEASE BE AWARE THAT ALL OF THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION IS IN THE PUBLIC DOMAIN AND IS AVAILABLE ON OPEN SOCIAL MEDIA OR GOVERNMENT WEBSITES

The companies in question are:

SCOTS LABOUR PARTY LTD
Company number SC636620
https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/SC636620

LABOUR PARTY SCOTLAND LTD
Company number SC638367
https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/SC638367

Both companies originally had Colleen Leonard as the sole Director, but she resigned later, and was replaced by George Martin.

Multiple Nationalists speculated that Colleen Leonard was related to the leader of the Scottish Labour Party, Richard Leonard - basically because of her surname.

Lets deal with George Martin first, shall we?

As well as being a Director of both of these “Labour Party” companies, he is also a director of Stirlingshire Caravans…

… which helped us find out some more information about him - this time, on Facebook:

As you can see, he is quite a supporter of the Independence movement (no, NOT the Labour Party!), with various postings and “likings” of, amongst other things, the SNP and the National newspaper.

Now, lets go back to Colleen Leonard - the first Director of both companies. On Facebook, she is friends with Eric Martin, a relation of their current Director, George Martin - both of whom work at Stirlingshire Caravans - and surprise, surprise, Eric is also an ardent Nationalist…

NOW, you would think that all of this shenanigans can’t be right - and you would be correct, as it would seem to break company law; so I sent an email to Companies House:

to which, I got this , semi-satisfactory, reply:

So, for now, we’ll just have to keep an eye on these people and their companies

UPDATE: As mentioned at the start of this article, Companies House now shows that both the companies have now been dissolved.

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Original Tumblr Article: https://graeme-from-it.tumblr.com/post/187221416516/twinlabourparties

Original Twitter Articles:

Graeme from IT 🌹🐝 @graeme_from_IT

@dhothersall Duncan - you're spot on! First, the information from Companies House, that the Nationalists & @ScotNational are throwing about... beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/SC6366… You'll notice that its a George Martin is it's Director He's also a Director of Stirlingshire Caravans 1/2

Graeme from IT 🌹🐝 @graeme_from_IT

@davethewhig @StewartNial @Del_ivered @dhothersall @kevverage So, this Nationalist-run company, purporting to be @ScottishLabour - you better watch out - we're keeping an eye on you... ( For those I've tagged - please read this thread from the top - some VERY murky goings-on here! )

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Graeme from IT 🌹🐝 @graeme_from_IT

@Maxie_UK @davethewhig @StewartNial @Del_ivered @dhothersall @kevverage @ScottishLabour @ScotLabourMPs @scotsyounglab @ScotLabCllrs @ScotLabourPress Last bit of digging for now;The 1st company Dir, for the 2 co's,was Colleen Leonard;On FB,she is friends with Eric Martin (related to current Dir. George Martin); Eric+George both work at StirlingshireCaravans & is another Nat. (rumour was Colleen is relation of Richard Leonard)