Labour’s publicity sous-chef, Kenny Young, expert on all matters Glaswegian, must be whistling softly through his teeth this morning. A narrow escape.
A scant few hours before the thinned ranks of the faithful turned up in Castlerigg to hear their beloved ‘tipped to be a future leader’ Miliband expound on his theory of denuding the country of the ‘have and the have nots’ – another Labour ‘tipped to be a future leader’ was being hauled away in ignominy to spend the night in Stewart Street Police Station.
In the early hours of this morning, just 500 yards from Miliband’s speech venue today, that rising star of transparency, fairness, and equality for all, Steven Purcell, was celebrating the news he would not face charges over claims of cronyism and drug abuse. The Crown Office announced on January 20 there was “insufficient evidence of criminality at this time” in Purcell’s case and “no further action is currently appropriate”.
Being the ‘misunderstood’ soul that he is, Steven celebrated this with 50 friends at the expensive Lorne Hotel in Glasgow’s West End. The night ended, as it often does with Steven, with an ‘emotional speech’ where he claimed to be a drama queen. He then left to continue the celebrations with an unnamed man in his bachelor flat. Things got out of hand, and by 5.30am, both men were claiming to have been assaulted. Neither man needed hospital attention, despite an ambulance being called.
At 7.30 this morning he was wandering ‘tired and with sunken eyes’, like the ghost of Glasgow past, towards the scene of Miliband’s hoped for triumph today.
The politician, who left his wife and came out as gay in 2006, quit his council post in March 2010.
He checked into a rehab clinic, then went to Australia and Ireland, where he admitted in an interview to taking cocaine and having a serious booze problem.
Ms Raccoon lives in the Monbazillac area of South West France, renowned for its fine wines and gourmet food, so she frequently finds better things to do than sit in front of a computer all morning. She is liable to take off traveling at a moment's notice. Consequently this blog only gets updated these days when it is raining - and it doesn't rain very often round here...
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It all speaks for itself, doesn’t it? Sic transit gloria mundi.
Lorne Hotel?
Not where I’d choose to go for a pint. Not just ex politocos that hang out there.
http://www.thesun.co.uk/scotsol/homepage/news/2978524/Daniel-clans-two-fingers-to-the-Lyons-at-Kevin-Gerbil-Carroll-funeral.html
There is no Castlerigg in Glasgow. Perhaps you mean Candleriggs, seeing as Millipede was at the City Halls – often called the Merchant City now that Goldbergs is no more. I know the Lorne hotel – more famous for its singles club and Irish band weekends in my youth than for being pricey ( its only 3 stars I think ) – I didnt know it had reopened. But theres no place I know called Castlerigg. I d say the Lorne was about 1 1/2 miles from the City Halls. Factual errors of this magnitude have me wondering if it is the Times Im reading.
Only Castlerigg I can think of is near Keswick and has a very nicely situated stone circle.
Thank you davidb – spellchecker at work again, it was Candleriggss, which Glasgow tourist office informed me (and helpfully sent me a map) was 500 meters from the Lorne Hotel.
The tourist board are not reliable. I once tried to obtain a hotel on Mull close to Tobermory. They suggested one 20 miles away, which wouldnt seem too distant, but my previous local knowledge told me it was a good hour since the roads are single track affairs with passing places. They perhaps thought you were going to be staying in town ( to hear the dulcet nasals of Ed? ). ViaMichelin is good for distances. Actually they go by a route that none of our taxi drivers would take and give it 3 miles. A more direct route is nearer 1.9 miles. Do please visit Glasgow, its a lovely old Victorian city despite the ravages of socialist planning, and there are frequent festivals going on to compliment the excellent shopping and sightseeing.
Im impressed at the lengths you did go to find out the distance. I thought journos just relied on Wikipedia.
See next time when you rip off copy from newspaper websites and re-write in a sneery and knowing manner, pretending it’s you own work? Well, at least copy correctly. The incidents you refer to happened on Saturday night into Sunday morning. The photo you refer to with the “tired and sunken eyes” description was taken by the Daily Record (whose words you stole) at 7.30pm Sunday, not AM, which was when Purcell left the police station. The Lorne Hotel is two miles from where Miliband was. Thank god for bloggers eh
So in your version Purcell didn’t do anything then? He’s a perfectly normal law-abiding citizen?
Nope. A few minor inaccuracies do not invalidate the facts – Purcell was arrested after a night on the razzle celebrating a very, very lucky escape from the claws of justice……….as scum-bag politicos often do.
Nope. A few minor inaccuracies do not invalidate the fact that Purcell brings shame on Scottish politics…………not an easy task given the extent of Scottish Labour’s crimes and calumnies, and individuals’ thick skins.
Dear Actual Reporter – that is why there is a link to the journalist’s original work. It’s called accreditation.
Not something the main stream media seem to know anything about, given the number of times I’ve had my original work ripped off by them – with no link. I didn’t refer to a photo, I put the words ‘tired etc’. in quotes to indicate that I was using someone else’s words – and gave the man a link to show it. Pity you lot can’t adhere to the same good manners.
A coke snorting corrupt ex politician got arrested – that’s not in dispute, so maybe you should tone down the snearing yourself.
the labour council may have got its head down since Mr Snort and Sniff above got himself bagged but glasgow is still one of the most corrupt councils in the UK.
No surprise we are hearing so little about this in Scotland. The BBC Glasgow, Labour Party in West Scotland, major MSM Journalists are in an incestuous relationship.
Today’s main news we are getting from BBC Scotland is that Northern Irish may start killing themselves again if Scots become independent & Tommy Sheridan has been released from Jail and being a criminal he supports independence.
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