Fresh breath, Govan-style
Top QC and Govan MSP Gordon Jackson is one of our better politicians in the humour stakes. Unlike a lot of them you don’t have to surgically extract his sense of fun. This was very much in evidence recently. Whacko was watching a football match on the telly and enjoying a couple of pints in the legendary Brechin’s Bar at Govan Cross. He then headed for his public meeting at the Pearce Institute. The Chairman rather mischievously asked, “Is that mints I smell?” Jacko replied “Naw. Lager. Does anyone in Govan have a problem with that?”
Spam welcome
“Don’t Vote for an idiot Vote for a clown” is a recently published piss take from Andy Bain. The book records details of e-mail correspondence with MSPs. Bain writes on a whole host of issues under the names of Asinder Khan, Dr Rosemary Hannay, Rupert Clubbs and Archie Beatty. It takes some of the great and good an unconscionably long time to get the message that they are being wound up. One of Dr Hannay’s correspondences with Dorothy-Grace Elder bordered on the ridiculous. Rather than bin the ever increasingly ludicrous rantings, Dorothy wrote back to say she would very much like to meet Dr Hannay. Some people will do anything for a vote.
200 quid well spent?
The culmination of the SNP’s charm offensive of the business community came at their Campaign conference last weekend, held at Drumkinnon Tower at Loch Lomond. The Nats tell us that for £200 a head you can sit at a table hosted by an MSP. Wow. Of more appeal is the promise that the “bar will stay open until 1am followed by a late night casino”. Clearly the ticket sales did not go well. Journalists were sent a letter advising them to contact the event organiser. It continued “tell them you are a journalist and you will get the ticket for £100”.
Not so Wyllie
The Tories have been struggling to find candidates for every seat for the Scottish elections. Almost a dozen adopted candidates have quit, including the hopeful in the once rock solid Eastwood constituency. Last week former car tycoon and party Deputy Chairman Jackson Carlaw stepped forward to fill the void. The former man at Wyllies has some spare time on his hands with his business having gone into receivership. However a spy tells us that the pugnacious Carlaw is having trouble finding an agent. A sign of the time for the Tories. All of which is good news for the sitting MSP, Blairite clone Ken MacIntosh.