North Lanarkshire Council leader resigns over sexual harrassment claims:
Council leader quits amid sexual harassment claims - BBC News
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North Lanarkshire Council leader resigns over sexual harrassment claims:
Council leader quits amid sexual harassment claims - BBC News
Only resigned as leader as well, still staying on as a Councillor... not a great look as it stands.Quote:
Originally Posted by He's here!
I'm guessing that may not be a tenable position for long, but I don't know any more about these allegations than what's reported in that story.Quote:
Originally Posted by Just Alf
Somebody who clearly has a neck of the hardest brass is Margaret Ferrier, who I can only assume is sitting tight so she can draw her MP's salary for another couple of years:
Margaret Ferrier: MP faces further Covid rule breach accusation - BBC News
I'm unclear upon what basis she can possibly deny the charge against her.
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Originally Posted by He's here!
Resigning from the role is probably the right thing to do.
I can only presume that whoever appointed him to this position was unaware of any claims of sexual harassment. If they did know about it, then they must have been pretty naive to think it wouldn't be brought into the public eye at some point.
What a creep.Quote:
Originally Posted by He's here!
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Have the SNP suspended him? I’m assuming they have.Quote:
Originally Posted by Just Alf
They promoted him, just like Patrick Grady.Quote:
Originally Posted by marinello59
Also like Derek McKay the SNPs first instinct was to kill the story.
https://twitter.com/HTScotPol/status...XVtY_mQ7A&s=19
"Worth remembering that when @HRwritesnews broke this story on Sunday, the SNP's first response was to threaten her with an IPSO complaint about her reporting"
It’s starting to appear that the Tartan Tories are behaving like the real Tories with their sexual shenanigans :wink:
It’s not even close.Quote:
Originally Posted by Berwickhibby
I am sure the victims of their abuse will be reassured about that 🙄Quote:
Originally Posted by Zambernardi1875
That wasn’t the point you made.Quote:
Originally Posted by Berwickhibby
Irrespective of anything the Tories do, the SNP needs to firmly sort out this culture of drunkenly groping one another and then the way they subsequently deal with “the story”.
It’s not reflecting at all well on them and is damaging them.
So you now tell me about the Point I am making…my point is that some politicians of the SNP are sexual predators as are some of the Tories and the people who suffer are their victims. But you appear to defend the SNP because obviously it’s not as bad as the Tories. Regardless which party they represent they are ****Quote:
Originally Posted by Zambernardi1875
:agree:Quote:
Originally Posted by Smartie
Whiter than white or the usual "get your own house in order" arguments are very easy to use for lots of people.
FWIW I think theres a sliding scale of sleaze, but it's not at all helpful when these things come out.
Like all political parties the SNP have handled these incidents really poorly but every time you call them "Tartan Tories" you render your point worthless.Quote:
Originally Posted by Berwickhibby
That’s what the SNP were known as in my youth and I am happy to continue using the same monicker….Quote:
Originally Posted by Hiber-nation
i havent once defended the snp. i find most politicians hypocritical, lying, narcissists.Quote:
Originally Posted by Berwickhibby
what i do find funny is unionist/tory voters coming on here slating the snp when the institutions they support are far far worse.
Never voted Tory in my lifeQuote:
Originally Posted by Zambernardi1875
All groups of people will have sleaze bags, no group is free of sex pests and even the church has them. It's how they're dealt with that's important and the SNP really need to get their house in order.Quote:
Originally Posted by Berwickhibby
Tories never admit to being a Tory 😉Quote:
Originally Posted by Berwickhibby
Even though it is wildly inaccurate. OK then.....Quote:
Originally Posted by Berwickhibby
Explain why it’s inaccurate…The SNP crossed the chamber and sided with the Tories and speeded up the ushering of Thatcher…hence the name givenQuote:
Originally Posted by Hiber-nation
So boring.[emoji849]Quote:
Originally Posted by Berwickhibby
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Boring in your opinion ….but still a factQuote:
Originally Posted by Ozyhibby
You have a habit of calling people names on here and IMO it doesn't help discussion.Quote:
Originally Posted by Berwickhibby
In this case you are harking back to events of 40+ years ago - do you honestly believe that the SNP of 2022 follow Conservative policies?
And lastly, did SNP really speed up the onset of the Thatcher era? The SNP wasn't responsible for Labour losing the election in 1979, it was the electorate responding to years of Labour's poor Government. Labour would have had to hold a GE later that year anyway, regardless of the VONC. Do you remember the winter of discontent?
Here's a view https://www.newstatesman.com/politic...ay-thatcherism
Well.....Quote:
Originally Posted by grunt
https://archive.ph/V4XGe
"The SNP are now just Tartan Tories with a smiling face"
Seems to be this week's SNP attack hashtag.Quote:
Originally Posted by James310
Along with the 'once in a generation/lifetime' statements by Salmond and Sturgeon in 2014, it's one of these inconvenient truths that annoy SNP supporters so get dismissed as boring or irrelevant.Quote:
Originally Posted by Berwickhibby
What is its relevance today?Quote:
Originally Posted by He's here!
Do the SNP want to send people to Rwanda? Make striking illegal? Have they nicked billions of pounds for their pals during a global disaster? Seek a return to the troubles in Ireland?
What makes today's SNP like the Torys of today?
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Aw for **** sake no again with the once in a generation. Look up rhetoric in the dictionary. Then look up the Edinburgh agreement. Then try to find any mention of once in a generation in there. A document signed by ALL parties. Johnson once said he’d die in a ditch, did you believe he would follow through in that as well. Rhetoric! Pure and simple. And folk using that as their defence for not having another referendum are clutching at straws and have already lost the argumentQuote:
Originally Posted by He's here!
And also I don’t believe even Jim Callaghan blamed the SNP for that VONC and lost election.