Editing Ian McCartney (section)

==Early life==
He was born in [[Lennoxtown]], [[Stirlingshire]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nndb.com/people/819/000159342/ |title=Ian McCartney |publisher=Nndb.com |access-date=2015-10-05}}</ref> to future Labour MP for [[East Dunbartonshire (UK Parliament constituency)|East Dunbartonshire]] [[Hugh McCartney]] and his wife, Margaret, a trade unionist. McCartney had two sisters, Irene and Margaret.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://johnstonpress.iannounce.mobi/kirkintilloch-herald/obituary/margaret-ferguson/47770823 |title=Legacy |access-date=2016-08-17 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160818194328/http://johnstonpress.iannounce.mobi/kirkintilloch-herald/obituary/margaret-ferguson/47770823 |archive-date=18 August 2016}}</ref>

Educated at [[Lenzie Academy]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.kirkintilloch-herald.co.uk/news/local-headlines/ian_is_labour_s_top_man_1_360199|title=Ian is Labour's top man|work=Kirkintilloch Herald|date=8 April 2003|access-date=25 November 2011|archive-date=1 October 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111001105232/http://www.kirkintilloch-herald.co.uk/news/local-headlines/ian_is_labour_s_top_man_1_360199|url-status=dead}}</ref> he left the school at the age of 15 "under a bit of a cloud" without any qualifications.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-23693420.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140611103850/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-23693420.html |url-status=dead |archive-date= 2014-06-11 |title=The rise of little big man |publisher=[[HighBeam Research]] |access-date=2015-10-05}}</ref> He led a paper-boys' strike at the age of fifteen,<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/columnists/maguire/2009/05/27/mac-s-still-a-great-mp-115875-21392228 |title=Ian McCartney will be missed as an MP |work=[[Daily Mirror]] |access-date=25 November 2011 |date=2009-05-26}}</ref> and had a number of jobs after leaving school, including a seaman, a local government manual worker, and a kitchen worker.<ref name=autogenerated5>{{cite news |work=[[BBC News Online]] |date=13 May 2011 |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-13350711 |title=Minimum wage: Ex-MP Ian McCartney recalls its introduction |access-date=25 November 2011 |archive-date=13 May 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110513082607/http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-13350711 |url-status=dead}}</ref> He was a councillor for [[Abram, Greater Manchester|Abram]] ward in [[Metropolitan Borough of Wigan|Wigan]] from 1982 to 1987.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=4zNAAAAAIBAJ&dq=wigan%20councilor%20ian%20mccartney&pg=5262%2C2122628 |title=Learning from Scotland |work=[[The Glasgow Herald]]}}</ref>