Excellent article from VB regarding GCC and Celtic

[Virtuoso 27,180]

Same City Council, Same Old Story

Written by: General Schomberg

Thursday, 9th January 2014

"Celtic, though, as a football institution, quite rightly remains a symbol of Catholicism. The Celtic strip, as famed and proudly known around the world as it is, still cannot be divorced from one of its cultural parents, which is the Catholic faith." - Graham Spiers

Back in 2009 I questioned the impartiality of certain politicians at Glasgow City Council pushing an aggressive initiative aimed at reducing the annual number of Loyal Order parades.

Of course accusations of paranoia on my part were the first line of defence for those supporting the thinly-veiled agendas of Councillors James Coleman and Paul Rooney and their sympathetic journalist Gerry Braiden. With that in mind, I'd like to take a look at who has been running the council, past and present and see if I can establish a pattern.

Between 1975 and 2003, ten Lord and Lady Provosts were appointed. All of them were of the Roman Catholic faith. This in a city the last census tells us comprises 31% Roman Catholics. Let's take a look at what mathematicians call "probability". The probability of consecutive events (RC Provosts in this case) is the probability of one event happening (0.31) to the power of the number of consecutive events (10). The answer is 0.0000025 or 1 in 400,000, showing a statistical bias to put it mildly. Four hundred thousand to one. Try getting odds like that at your local Ladbrokes next time you pop in.

That the Scottish media never saw fit to question this strange phenomenon is a mystery in itself. Indeed it took jokes regarding the situation from satirical newspaper columnists like Rikki Brown and Tam Cowan (presumably they found GCC's bigotry funny) to see change. Those in control at City Chambers were in a dilemma - they had been found out -the statistics were an embarrassment. Former Provost Dr. Michael Kelly, himself a Roman Catholic, stated so on national radio.

So what did they do? They appointed as Provost a female of the Jewish faith, Liz Cameron. Why Mrs. Cameron? As a product of the fee-paying Roman Catholic school Notre Dame perhaps she was seen as a safe bet who could break the cycle without upsetting the apple cart. One of Mrs. Cameron's first actions was to sign off a cheque for £600,000 - the Council choosing to use public funds to purchase stained glass windows for the Museum of Religious Life and Art - from her old school, Notre Dame.

Councillor Bob Winter took over from Mrs. Cameron in 2007. A Protestant, the Evening Times once described how Mr. Winter and his four sons "made a pilgrimage (to Seville) to see the team they love go down 3-2 to Porto in a thrilling (UEFA Cup) final". It could be contended that Mr. Winter is yet another safe bet.

It was the appointment in 1999 of Councillor Alex Mosson, who held the position of Lord Provost from then until 2003 that caused the biggest stir. A lifelong Celtic supporter, Mr. Mosson was the inaugural Chairman of The Celtic Trust and remained on the board of same for many years.

Mr. Mosson has four criminal convictions that led to custodial sentences. Two for housebreaking, one for assault and one for housebreaking with menaces (he tied-up and beat-up an elderly lady whose house he was robbing). In essence, he used to beat up and rob pensioners he later purported to represent as Lord Provost of Glasgow.

Mosson once worked in Aberdeen as an insulators labourer when an RNLA charity bottle went missing from a local pub. After the theft, he was promptly barred for life. At the time of his appointment as Lord Provost, otherwise unemployed Mosson lived in a plush Victorian home in Glasgow's west end. It was said that his trade union involvement was farcical; he hadn't worked for twenty-odd years - a full time councillor on the make.

Mosson’s wife (the then Lady Provost) caused uproar when she made an application and received an increase in her dress allowance from £8,000 to £14,000 per annum. She justified this by stating that the people of Glasgow wouldn't want to be embarrassed by their Lady Provost appearing twice in the same outfit, in public on their behalf.

The Mossons could be spotted as "guests of honour" at the Celtic Rally and their photographs were often to be found in The Celtic View, the peroxide Mrs. Mosson accompanying her husband whilst he received or presented awards. The four years of his tenure as Lord Provost cost the people of Glasgow a minimum of £250,000. In his case, crime would appear to pay.

He caused further outrage when in 2005 after it was revealed that he used his taxpayer-funded chauffeur-driven car to attend Celtic Football Club matches, functions and supporters' rallies during his time as Lord Provost. During that period, he attended no Rangers fixtures despite having an open invitation to visit Ibrox. His public engagements, revealed under Freedom of Information legislation, included the following:

"36 Celtic home matches as Lord Provost; (Celtic) away matches at Paisley, Livingston and Liverpool; the testimonial ball, dinner and match held to mark the career of former Celtic player Tom Boyd; supporters' rallies honouring Celtic captain Paul Lambert and former club physio Brian Scott; a Celtic charity event; a Celtic hall of fame dinner; a Celtic board meeting; an event in Ireland dedicated to ex-Celtic player Sean Fallon; a "civic lunch" in 1999 with the chief executive of Celtic; the funeral of former Celtic player Bobby Murdoch; an official council reception and lunch at the Corinthian in Glasgow, prior to the Republic of Ireland's world cup match against Saudi Arabia."

Of course the Lord Provost is supposed to be an impartial public servant who is sensitive to the views of all of our city's residents. Mosson had an open invitation to attend football matches at both Parkhead and Ibrox, but chose only the former. Freedom of Information documents show that he attended no matches at Ibrox, while the small number of Rangers games he did attend involved Celtic as opponents. Of the six Ibrox functions identified from his list of engagements, Mosson failed to attend three of them. For all his Parkhead engagements, the City Daimler was put at Mossons disposal. The taxpayer funded his jaunts.

Mosson was the major dissenting voice behind the council's decision to include the flag of the British Isles at citizenship ceremonies, stating "I know many pubs in the east end where you would be killed for flying a Union Jack". He was subsequently laughed out of the building after a legal eagle tore strips off him.

After leaving office in 2003, he was appointed chair of the Glasgow Marketing Bureau, and promptly awarded a £200,000 contract to an established Glasgow business - The Trophy Centre which, at the time, was owned by a former Celtic Director (formerly owned by James Torbett – the monster at the head of the Celtic Boys Club child abuse scandal).

Finally, you may care to note that Mr. Mosson was part of a group of people responsible for inviting IRA leader Gerry Adams to Glasgow in the 1980's. It would seem his love of Irish Republicanism runs in the family - his son once announced on his Friends Reunited profile that he was "still a Provo".

While the position of Lord Provost (civic head) could be considered little more than that of "figurehead", the financial muscle lies with the Leader of the Council. Then incumbent Stephen Purcell was elected in 2005 by members of the majority party (Labour) and presided over a £2.4 billion budget. Deputy Leader at the time was the aforementioned Councillor James Coleman. Both are lifelong Celtic supporters and regulars at Celtic Park. In a fit of what can only be described as idiocy, Roman Catholic Mr. Purcell once recounted how his schooldays were spent "throwing stones at Protestants". Later, he was forced to resign having admitted to regularly taking cocaine amid allegations of liaising with violent criminals.

Prior to Mr. Purcell's appointment, Labour's Charles Gordon held the position of Leader. A Celtic Park regular, Mr. Gordon attended the same Roman Catholic secondary school (St. Thomas Aquinas) as Mr. Purcell and Alex Mosson. Mr. Gordon declared the following in his Declaration of Interests under "gifts and hospitality":

"Invitation from Celtic Football Club to represent the City and the Council as Leader of the Council".

"Attendance at the UEFA Cup Final in Seville, and associated events from the 20 to 22 May 2003".

"Hospitality at Celtic v Anderlecht Football Match".

Mr. Gordon had succeeded Pat "Lazarus" Lally. Mr. Lally gained his nickname due to his apparent ability to "keep bouncing back" as scandal after scandal littered his career. Among the more embarrassing episodes were suspension from the Labour Party amid Police investigation of his tenure as Chairman of the Council Housing Committee (a report was sent to the Procurator Fiscal attesting he had ensured all the good Council houses in Simshill went to his family and friends) and similar suspension following the theft of a video recorder from Castlemilk Labour Club.

By now it may not surprise you to hear that Mr. Lally was a Celtic season-ticket holder who advocated a street party in Glasgow, should Celtic have won the UEFA Cup in 2003.

Looking again at the question of the impartiality of public servants in relation to Loyal Order parades, allow me to remind you of the then-members of the “impartial” publicly-funded "Public Processions Committee" set up by Glasgow City Council.

Chaired by the aforementioned Celtic supporter James Coleman (See Note 3), the committee comprises six further members.

The other members of the committee:

• Councillor James Scanlon (Labour, Ward 8, Southside Central) a Roman Catholic and a regular at Celtic Park.
  
• Councillor Tom McKeown (Labour, Ward 19, Shettleston) a Roman Catholic and a Celtic supporter.
  
• Councillor James Dornan (Scottish National Party, Ward 7, Langside) a Roman Catholic and a Celtic supporter (See Note 1). (Would it be fair to state an SNP member may take a dim view of a Loyalist/Pro Union organisation?).
  
• Councillor John McKenzie (Labour, Ward 1, Linn) was Chairman of the Pat Anderson Glenacre Celtic Supporters Club.
  
• Councillor Catherine McMaster (Labour, Ward 21, North East) a Roman Catholic and member of the Scottish Catholic Historical Association.
  
• Councillor James Todd (Labour, Ward 17, Springburn) a Roman Catholic and a Celtic supporter (See Note 2).
  

It has been long-established that the leader of the world’s Roman Catholics is none too enamoured by Protestantism. The link between Roman Catholicism, Irish Republicanism and Celtic Football Club is inextricable. Glasgow City Council's “impartial” Public Processions Committee comprised entirely Roman Catholics and/or Celtic supporters. It also included a member whose Scottish Nationalist politics make it highly unlikely that he'd look upon the pro-Union Loyal Orders favourably. Would it be fair to say their impartiality should have been subject to scrutiny?

Currently Glasgow City Council are involved in allegations of favouritism resulting in financial impropriety towards what many Council employees describe as their ‘works team’ – Celtic Football Club.

Nobody should be surprised.

Note 1. Mr. Dornan's name may be familiar to you - he had to step down as SNP candidate for Springburn after it was revealed he had breached charities legislation by failing to declare he is an undischarged bankrupt.

Note 2. Mr. Todd's name may be another that is familiar to you. In 2005 it was revealed "he works for a private hire taxi firm owned by the notorious McGovern crime clan". Glasgow City Council had awarded the firm a lucrative "school run" contract.

Note 3. In 2007 a head mistress at a Roman Catholic school, backed by the Roman Catholic Church, complained bitterly regards Glasgow Council-funded taxis emblazoned with advertising for lap-dancing bars picking up school children. On Sunday 30th August 2009 the Sunday Herald reported that Deputy Leader James Coleman had announced that GCC would no longer utilise the services of any licensed cab advertising such establishments. Some claim that Councillor Coleman was bowing to pressure from his masters.

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[jim beam 2,188]

Not a bad article but nothing that nobody wasn't aware of for many years.

[Muirheadbear 1,483]

I'll say it again. Any bear living in a glasgow council ward who votes Labour needs their f...n head examined.

[D'Artagnan 13,319]

Outstanding research and investigation. Provides the answers to so many questions

[Adoniram 1,919]

Not a bad article but nothing that nobody wasn't aware of for many years.

That's cause it was written years ago but ignored by the majority. He (and others) have been writing about this for over 10 years now. Only now when it's being exposed are people finally realising what's been going on under their noses.

[IanCurtis 155]

That's cause it was written years ago but ignored by the majority. He (and others) have been writing about this for over 10 years now. Only now when it's being exposed are people finally realising what's been going on under their noses.

Indeed. but we are still riddled with hawhaws and appeasers in our support.

sometimes we deserve what we get Adoniram

[Helicopter Sundae 6,081]

Those bhastards have woken a sleeping giant.

[jim beam 2,188]

That's cause it was written years ago but ignored by the majority. He (and others) have been writing about this for over 10 years now. Only now when it's being exposed are people finally realising what's been going on under their noses.

You would need to be a retard to not know what was and still is happening with GCC and now with it spreading nationally as well it will get worse.Whether the guy has written it years ago or hours ago is irrelevant as the situation hasn't change only the faces have.It is not ignorance as to what is going on but apathy within the unionist people.

[Blue Nosed Babe 20,840]

Dornan is now an SNP MSP!

[Bad Robot 21,374]

An old story but definitely relevant and another subject that needs brought back into the public domain.

[True Azure 1,414]

Where is it they are discriminated against in Scotland again???????

[D'Artagnan 13,319]

Where is it they are discriminated against in Scotland again???????

In their heads.

[Getstiffed 8,863]

Where is it they are discriminated against in Scotland again???????

Everything they are or do, they claim its someone else. Almost always us.

[simon 1,744]

Maybe someone from VB should run as opposition?

[simon 1,744]

Moved in here due to it not being Rangers related.

[ritchieshearercaldow 22,213]

This is what our forefathers feared, this is why they fought tooth and nail to keep the rc's out of any sort of power, the turnaround started IMO when Scotland allowed the pope's visit In the 80's (?) and was re-enforced with the uk visit recently.

My parents and their family (I'm knocking on btw) were all labour minded, I even had an Uncle who was a councilor, I have never personally voted for the Labour Party and never would after hearing that the RC church was advising it's flock to do so.

The worm has well and truly turned....sad days

[Muirheadbear 1,483]

Maybe someone from VB should run as opposition?

Great idea! If nothing else it would bring to the attention of everyone.

[Malvern 11,329]

Outstanding research and investigation. Provides the answers to so many questions

Agreed, outstanding work and also ads gravitas to the ongoing research done by governing bodies into the club across the city (well would not be our Scottish government would it?). The balls are falling into place and soon the bingo will begin me thinks.

[Blueshoff 11,892]

Partly due to years of apathy from the non rc community?

[Phil 1,150]

Great work as usual

Unbelievable that a minority can hold such high offices for so long a time.

This has been ongoing for years, but unfortunately I doubt that enough people would vote Tory or Lib Dem to get this Labour council out.

[MayboleLoyal_atb 3,757]

Good article

[mabawsa 888]

Dornan is now an SNP MSP!

He even had the brass neck to ask about CWG money being spent on buying the old Dalmarnock power station from SDM.....yet conveniently fails to ask about the elephant in the room ie. Celtic Land Deals ....

[BRITNEY IS NOT FEELING IT 8,293]

Same City Council, Same Old Story

Written by: General Schomberg

Thursday, 9th January 2014

"Celtic, though, as a football institution, quite rightly remains a symbol of Catholicism. The Celtic strip, as famed and proudly known around the world as it is, still cannot be divorced from one of its cultural parents, which is the Catholic faith." - Graham Spiers

Back in 2009 I questioned the impartiality of certain politicians at Glasgow City Council pushing an aggressive initiative aimed at reducing the annual number of Loyal Order parades.

Of course accusations of paranoia on my part were the first line of defence for those supporting the thinly-veiled agendas of Councillors James Coleman and Paul Rooney and their sympathetic journalist Gerry Braiden. With that in mind, I'd like to take a look at who has been running the council, past and present and see if I can establish a pattern.

Between 1975 and 2003, ten Lord and Lady Provosts were appointed. All of them were of the Roman Catholic faith. This in a city the last census tells us comprises 31% Roman Catholics. Let's take a look at what mathematicians call "probability". The probability of consecutive events (RC Provosts in this case) is the probability of one event happening (0.31) to the power of the number of consecutive events (10). The answer is 0.0000025 or 1 in 400,000, showing a statistical bias to put it mildly. Four hundred thousand to one. Try getting odds like that at your local Ladbrokes next time you pop in.

That the Scottish media never saw fit to question this strange phenomenon is a mystery in itself. Indeed it took jokes regarding the situation from satirical newspaper columnists like Rikki Brown and Tam Cowan (presumably they found GCC's bigotry funny) to see change. Those in control at City Chambers were in a dilemma - they had been found out -the statistics were an embarrassment. Former Provost Dr. Michael Kelly, himself a Roman Catholic, stated so on national radio.

So what did they do? They appointed as Provost a female of the Jewish faith, Liz Cameron. Why Mrs. Cameron? As a product of the fee-paying Roman Catholic school Notre Dame perhaps she was seen as a safe bet who could break the cycle without upsetting the apple cart. One of Mrs. Cameron's first actions was to sign off a cheque for £600,000 - the Council choosing to use public funds to purchase stained glass windows for the Museum of Religious Life and Art - from her old school, Notre Dame.

Councillor Bob Winter took over from Mrs. Cameron in 2007. A Protestant, the Evening Times once described how Mr. Winter and his four sons "made a pilgrimage (to Seville) to see the team they love go down 3-2 to Porto in a thrilling (UEFA Cup) final". It could be contended that Mr. Winter is yet another safe bet.

It was the appointment in 1999 of Councillor Alex Mosson, who held the position of Lord Provost from then until 2003 that caused the biggest stir. A lifelong Celtic supporter, Mr. Mosson was the inaugural Chairman of The Celtic Trust and remained on the board of same for many years.

Mr. Mosson has four criminal convictions that led to custodial sentences. Two for housebreaking, one for assault and one for housebreaking with menaces (he tied-up and beat-up an elderly lady whose house he was robbing). In essence, he used to beat up and rob pensioners he later purported to represent as Lord Provost of Glasgow.

Mosson once worked in Aberdeen as an insulators labourer when an RNLA charity bottle went missing from a local pub. After the theft, he was promptly barred for life. At the time of his appointment as Lord Provost, otherwise unemployed Mosson lived in a plush Victorian home in Glasgow's west end. It was said that his trade union involvement was farcical; he hadn't worked for twenty-odd years - a full time councillor on the make.

Mosson’s wife (the then Lady Provost) caused uproar when she made an application and received an increase in her dress allowance from £8,000 to £14,000 per annum. She justified this by stating that the people of Glasgow wouldn't want to be embarrassed by their Lady Provost appearing twice in the same outfit, in public on their behalf.

The Mossons could be spotted as "guests of honour" at the Celtic Rally and their photographs were often to be found in The Celtic View, the peroxide Mrs. Mosson accompanying her husband whilst he received or presented awards. The four years of his tenure as Lord Provost cost the people of Glasgow a minimum of £250,000. In his case, crime would appear to pay.

He caused further outrage when in 2005 after it was revealed that he used his taxpayer-funded chauffeur-driven car to attend Celtic Football Club matches, functions and supporters' rallies during his time as Lord Provost. During that period, he attended no Rangers fixtures despite having an open invitation to visit Ibrox. His public engagements, revealed under Freedom of Information legislation, included the following:

"36 Celtic home matches as Lord Provost; (Celtic) away matches at Paisley, Livingston and Liverpool; the testimonial ball, dinner and match held to mark the career of former Celtic player Tom Boyd; supporters' rallies honouring Celtic captain Paul Lambert and former club physio Brian Scott; a Celtic charity event; a Celtic hall of fame dinner; a Celtic board meeting; an event in Ireland dedicated to ex-Celtic player Sean Fallon; a "civic lunch" in 1999 with the chief executive of Celtic; the funeral of former Celtic player Bobby Murdoch; an official council reception and lunch at the Corinthian in Glasgow, prior to the Republic of Ireland's world cup match against Saudi Arabia."

Of course the Lord Provost is supposed to be an impartial public servant who is sensitive to the views of all of our city's residents. Mosson had an open invitation to attend football matches at both Parkhead and Ibrox, but chose only the former. Freedom of Information documents show that he attended no matches at Ibrox, while the small number of Rangers games he did attend involved Celtic as opponents. Of the six Ibrox functions identified from his list of engagements, Mosson failed to attend three of them. For all his Parkhead engagements, the City Daimler was put at Mossons disposal. The taxpayer funded his jaunts.

Mosson was the major dissenting voice behind the council's decision to include the flag of the British Isles at citizenship ceremonies, stating "I know many pubs in the east end where you would be killed for flying a Union Jack". He was subsequently laughed out of the building after a legal eagle tore strips off him.

After leaving office in 2003, he was appointed chair of the Glasgow Marketing Bureau, and promptly awarded a £200,000 contract to an established Glasgow business - The Trophy Centre which, at the time, was owned by a former Celtic Director (formerly owned by James Torbett – the monster at the head of the Celtic Boys Club child abuse scandal).

Finally, you may care to note that Mr. Mosson was part of a group of people responsible for inviting IRA leader Gerry Adams to Glasgow in the 1980's. It would seem his love of Irish Republicanism runs in the family - his son once announced on his Friends Reunited profile that he was "still a Provo".

While the position of Lord Provost (civic head) could be considered little more than that of "figurehead", the financial muscle lies with the Leader of the Council. Then incumbent Stephen Purcell was elected in 2005 by members of the majority party (Labour) and presided over a £2.4 billion budget. Deputy Leader at the time was the aforementioned Councillor James Coleman. Both are lifelong Celtic supporters and regulars at Celtic Park. In a fit of what can only be described as idiocy, Roman Catholic Mr. Purcell once recounted how his schooldays were spent "throwing stones at Protestants". Later, he was forced to resign having admitted to regularly taking cocaine amid allegations of liaising with violent criminals.

Prior to Mr. Purcell's appointment, Labour's Charles Gordon held the position of Leader. A Celtic Park regular, Mr. Gordon attended the same Roman Catholic secondary school (St. Thomas Aquinas) as Mr. Purcell and Alex Mosson. Mr. Gordon declared the following in his Declaration of Interests under "gifts and hospitality":

"Invitation from Celtic Football Club to represent the City and the Council as Leader of the Council".

"Attendance at the UEFA Cup Final in Seville, and associated events from the 20 to 22 May 2003".

"Hospitality at Celtic v Anderlecht Football Match".

Mr. Gordon had succeeded Pat "Lazarus" Lally. Mr. Lally gained his nickname due to his apparent ability to "keep bouncing back" as scandal after scandal littered his career. Among the more embarrassing episodes were suspension from the Labour Party amid Police investigation of his tenure as Chairman of the Council Housing Committee (a report was sent to the Procurator Fiscal attesting he had ensured all the good Council houses in Simshill went to his family and friends) and similar suspension following the theft of a video recorder from Castlemilk Labour Club.

By now it may not surprise you to hear that Mr. Lally was a Celtic season-ticket holder who advocated a street party in Glasgow, should Celtic have won the UEFA Cup in 2003.

Looking again at the question of the impartiality of public servants in relation to Loyal Order parades, allow me to remind you of the then-members of the “impartial” publicly-funded "Public Processions Committee" set up by Glasgow City Council.

Chaired by the aforementioned Celtic supporter James Coleman (See Note 3), the committee comprises six further members.

The other members of the committee:

• Councillor James Scanlon (Labour, Ward 8, Southside Central) a Roman Catholic and a regular at Celtic Park.
  
• Councillor Tom McKeown (Labour, Ward 19, Shettleston) a Roman Catholic and a Celtic supporter.
  
• Councillor James Dornan (Scottish National Party, Ward 7, Langside) a Roman Catholic and a Celtic supporter (See Note 1). (Would it be fair to state an SNP member may take a dim view of a Loyalist/Pro Union organisation?).
  
• Councillor John McKenzie (Labour, Ward 1, Linn) was Chairman of the Pat Anderson Glenacre Celtic Supporters Club.
  
• Councillor Catherine McMaster (Labour, Ward 21, North East) a Roman Catholic and member of the Scottish Catholic Historical Association.
  
• Councillor James Todd (Labour, Ward 17, Springburn) a Roman Catholic and a Celtic supporter (See Note 2).
  

It has been long-established that the leader of the world’s Roman Catholics is none too enamoured by Protestantism. The link between Roman Catholicism, Irish Republicanism and Celtic Football Club is inextricable. Glasgow City Council's “impartial” Public Processions Committee comprised entirely Roman Catholics and/or Celtic supporters. It also included a member whose Scottish Nationalist politics make it highly unlikely that he'd look upon the pro-Union Loyal Orders favourably. Would it be fair to say their impartiality should have been subject to scrutiny?

Currently Glasgow City Council are involved in allegations of favouritism resulting in financial impropriety towards what many Council employees describe as their ‘works team’ – Celtic Football Club.

Nobody should be surprised.

Note 1. Mr. Dornan's name may be familiar to you - he had to step down as SNP candidate for Springburn after it was revealed he had breached charities legislation by failing to declare he is an undischarged bankrupt.

Note 2. Mr. Todd's name may be another that is familiar to you. In 2005 it was revealed "he works for a private hire taxi firm owned by the notorious McGovern crime clan". Glasgow City Council had awarded the firm a lucrative "school run" contract.

Note 3. In 2007 a head mistress at a Roman Catholic school, backed by the Roman Catholic Church, complained bitterly regards Glasgow Council-funded taxis emblazoned with advertising for lap-dancing bars picking up school children. On Sunday 30th August 2009 the Sunday Herald reported that Deputy Leader James Coleman had announced that GCC would no longer utilise the services of any licensed cab advertising such establishments. Some claim that Councillor Coleman was bowing to pressure from his masters.

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Well put together article ,stuff we have known that's been going on for years ,good to get it out in the open for those lucky enough to be that bit younger

[clan macrae 292]

Im 63 years old was brought up in a Glasgow tenement by my grandparents.Both and indeed all my famlily working class and although all protestant in faith they all voted labour.At the age of 18 I voted for the first time.When I got home my Gran asked me if I had cast my vote.I said yes "i voted Tory".well it didnt go down too well but in hindsight I am glad i did.This city has been in the hands of these imposter for years.Time to draw the line in the sand.Great article and well put together.

[CrackFox 245]

Here is something similar that I only read today.

Dec 24, 2010 at 5:05pm

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Post by bormes on Dec 24, 2010 at 5:05pm

Frank McAveety is Labour's former Sports Minister who championed the case for Sportscotland's HQ to be relocated from Edinburgh to the Parkhead site of a new National Arena, despite 90% of Sportscotland's employees expressing their desire to stay in Edinburgh,

Ron Culley is a former Labour Party candidate for Strathkelvin and Bearsden. He is also the former Chief Executive of Scottish Enterprise and former colleague of Stephen Purcell of GCC, who is on the board of Scottish Enterprise,

Jack McConnell is a personal friend Former Chairman of Scottish Enterprise is Willie Haughey. Haughey is Scotland’s biggest single donor to Labour Party funds. He received £16 million of tax-payers money, approved by Jack McConnell, to relocate his business to facilitate the M74 extension......to Parkhead.

Culley is a season ticket holder at Celtic Park , as are Haughey, Purcell and McAveety. McConnell is a regular guest. Culley visited Beijing to study transport systems to "help Glasgow’s bid to host the 2014 Commonwealth Games". Culley, Haughey and McAveety were at the forefront of the campaign for the M74 extension which improved Road links to Parkhead. 3 days after McConnell and McAveety announced the relocation of Sport Scotland to land adjacent to Celtic Park,

Culley as Chief Executive of Strathclyde Passenger Transport) quietly issued a low-key statement declaring the intention to build a new £20 million train link to Parkhead jointly funded by SPT, GCC and The Scottish Executive. More recently Culley announced plans for a Glasgow Underground extension to Parkhead.

Key historic buildings at Parkhead Cross are to be refurbished as part of a drive to breathe new life into the east end of the city. The Heritage Lottery Fund has given £1.4 million – one of the largest single donations it has ever awarded – to specifically restore the 100 year old Edwardian style buildings that frame the Cross. Three former bank buildings will be renovated to bring empty floor space back into viable use and improve the overall streetscape.

The Parkhead Townscape Heritage Initiative is a £4 million five year plan, with the aim of repairing and bringing back to use landmark buildings, vacant shop nonsense and enhancement to the public realm . The partners in the initiative include Glasgow City Council, East End Partnership, East End SIP, Communities Scotland Celtic Football Club and Scottish Enterprise Glasgow. £50 first prize to the first caller to name me a link between Glasgow City Council, Celtic Football Club and Scottish Enterprise Glasgow.

In the mid 90s after Celtic FC had submitted plans for the re-building of their stadium. Glasgow District Council sold the club significant tracts of land namely Kinloch Street, Janefield Street and Dalriada Street for the princely sum of 1p. The Planning Committee consisted thirteen members, eleven Labour, one SNP, and one Tory. The SNP member was so disgusted with the dealings of his own committee that he informed the Herald that "of them eleven Labour councillors on the committee, they are all either season ticket holders or share holders at Celtic Park. Eight of them are both". He further noted that,"if these eleven councillors were shareholders in ICI and they voted for lax planning consent on a petro-chemical plant , there would be a criminal investigation". (This scandal was also reported in Private Eye's "Rotten Borough's" column).

Okay, we have established Glasgow District Council sold three streets( Dalriada Street ,Janefield Street ,and Kinloch Street ) to their beloved

Sellik for a penny. Next, the combined efforts of the Board of Scottish Enterprise(Glasgow) ie Paul Cooney, Wullie HeeHaw, Charlie Gordon, Stephen Purcell, ....etc and the then First Minister and Sellik season ticket and share holder, Jack McConnell ensured the Commonwealth Games would be centred on Sellik Park . It was first announced by McConnell to Snyde's Paul Cooney on the evening of the home leg of the UEFA Cup tie against Liverpool. Subsequently, it came out that the Velodrome would be constructed across the London Road and the various Administrative blocks would house Sports Scotland (currently located in Edinburgh).

Those Admin' blocks have to be filled and the next vetted and fully on message tenants’ are Culture and Sport Glasgow. The Chief Executive of this public funded body is Bridget McConnell, wife of Jack. Of course, Bridget only received her in excess of £100,000 per annum designation because of a piece of horse trading by philanderer, Jack. He could not keep it zipped, got caught, ended up on the front page of the Record, and Bridget only agreed to respectability if Jack ensured she was over promoted several grades. In football parlance, Bridget was a youth team stalwart who immediately assumed Captaincy of the first team.

Really, it all makes sense to centralise all the decision making process. All those MPs, MSPs, MEPs, Councillors, and Chief Executive of Public Funded bodies can watch their hooped heroes then walk across London Road to decide what’s best for the peoples of Glasgow, Truly, the establishment Club.

I wonder if Bridget's and Jack's brother-in-law, Robert McLuckie will be first on the guest list. Perhaps I should try and explain myself further for those questioning why certain contributors raise the possibility that this proposed "Eat End Redevelopment" and "Celtic Triangle" may be of considerable benefit to Celtic FC - and indeed, that this is a primary factor in the plans we've seen released this week. Until very recently, Glasgow had not had a non-RC Lord Provost since the early 70s. A completely disproportionate number of staff at Glasgow City Council – including those at top end of the salary scale such as Bridget McConnell – are RCs. Nearly all Labour councillors are RCs and few councillors are members of any other party. Roman Catholic ex-Lord Provost Dr. Michael Kelly questioned the reasons behind this phenomenon a few years ago live on radio, the inference being the situation had arisen out of bigotry. Credit to him for being so open and honest.

A recent Lord Provost, Alex Mosson, was an IRA sympathizer who was responsible for inviting Gerry Adams to Govan Town Hall , while the Provisional’s terror campaign was in full swing. Mosson had a novel interpretation of wealth redistribution; he had several criminal convictions for burglary, two of which lead to custodial sentences, including one case which involved tying up an OAP.

Mosson's wife was certainly not prepared to let taxpayers' money go to waste during her husband's stint as Provost, insisting on an increase in her dress allowance from £8,000 to £14,000 p.a. When questioned, she justified this by famously claiming "the people of Glasgow wouldn't want to see me wearing the same outfit twice".Mr. Mosson was the inaugural Chairman of The Celtic Trust and perhaps unsurprisingly, made sure that the official limousine was at hand for his regular trips to Celtic Park, a policy that was also questioned by political opponents. Strangely, he never took the opportunity of visiting Ibrox.

Again this was swept under the carpet ,and was never brought to light at the council meetings, this was squashed when it was motives behind those at the forefront of the Commonwealth Games bid – such as Jack McConnell, Ron Culley, Steven Purcell and Frank McAveety – who are all regulars at Celtic Park .There are huge question marks over the £288m budget (80% to be paid by the Executive), given that the cost of the `indoor arena' alone has recently escalated from an original £24m to £70m. McConnell's handing of the M74 extension affair, in which he met City Refrigeration Holding boss (and ex-Celtic director) Willie Haughey before an initial £7.4m compensation award was increased to £16.5m – with Haughey subsequently donating £330,000 to the Labour Party – hardly dampens suspicion.

In contrast to the largesse being bestowed on the East End of Glasgow, SPT instructed Rangers that the club would have to fork out £500k if the old Ibrox station on the Central-Paisley line was ever to be re-opened.

A lot is spoken about `sectarianism' in Scotland I contend that there is far, far more to this problem than songs sung at football matches and that it is time the Scottish people wakened up.

When is one of our elected representatives going to ask some searching questions regarding the various deals surrounding East End regeneration, the Commonwealth Games bid, the M74 extension and the proposed rail/subway extensions? They may also care to question why the bulk of the "regeneration" seems to centre around a one mile radius of Celtic Park.

This shows the level of commitment that some of our illustrious councillors are up to ,under the cloak of City Council Dealings.

They are after all looking after our best interests!!!!!!!!!!!