CAMERON TOLD HE SHOULD GIVE HEROIN DEALERS LIFE

HEROIN dealers should be given life sentences, Tory leader David
Cameron was told in Glasgow today.

Mr Cameron was campaigning in the Glasgow East by-election with
candidate Davena Rankin and he met a mother whose son died of heroin
abuse and a father who had two addict sons.

Janis Dobbie and Jim Docherty took previous Tory boss Iain Duncan
Smith on a tour of the East End almost six years ago to let him see
the problems afflicting the area.

Today, Mr Duncan Smith was back with his successor Mr Cameron.

Mr Docherty told them he backed the Conservatives' hardline policies
on drugs and praised their willingness to listen to ordinary people's views.

He said: "We think the policies they have for tackling the drug
abuse we have in our communities is very good.

"They come here and discuss issues like this with people like us and
ask us what we want and how we would go about tackling it.

"That's proper consultation and they have formed their policies out
of listening to people like us.

"We want zero tolerance, we want rehabilitation instead of methadone.

"We want the drug counsellors to get off their backsides and do the
work and get our kids clean. We are fed up burying them."

Mr Docherty also urged other parties standing for the constituency
to take a tougher stance on drugs and drug dealers.

He said: "We want other parties coming out with strong policies,
like giving life sentences to heroin dealers, not giving them two or
three years and let them start selling heroin the same day they come
out of jail."

Mr Cameron gave a speech at St Jude's Church in Barlanark, where he
accused the Labour Party of treating voters in Glasgow East "like fools".

He said people were asking why Prime Minister Gordon Brown had not
lived up to his pledge of ending "degrading poverty".

"This is the broken society by-election," he said. "It comes at a
time when the country is asking what is going on with the knife
crime and violence in our streets."

Mr Cameron said the Tories had a "clear mission and a clear plan".

"Our mission is to repair our broken society - to heal the wounds of
poverty, crime, social disorder and deprivation that are steadily
making this country a grim and joyless place to live for far too many people.

"While our society is broken today, it is not broken for ever. We
can and will repair it; we can and will bring hope and aspiration to
places where there is resignation and despair."

Labour holds a 13,507 majority in the ward over the SNP.