Is Labour Councillor Colin Smyth doing a 'Charlie Gordon' and hiding till the heat dies down?

Dear All

Recently, I wrote about Colin Smyth, a Labour Councillor who was kicked out a Council meeting at Dumfries and Galloway Council after being voted out the door by the rest of the Council.

As of this date he has not resigned as General Secretary of the British Labour Party (Scottish region).

His behaviour has been described as “boorish”.Boorish means;‘unrefined in speech or manners; loutish; ill-bred; uncivilized; coarse’ according to an online dictionary.

I find today that I have a visitor to my website;

IP address 212.240.123.213 from Dumfries and Galloway Council.

The time spent so far on my site by the person using a blackberry is 24 minutes and 5 seconds.

Here are the pages they were keen to view;

http://glasgowunihumanrights.blogspot.com/2009/11/verdict-on-colin-smyth-theres-kind-of.html

and;

http://glasgowunihumanrights.blogspot.com/2009/11/steven-bin-laden-purcell-unfit-to-lead.html

I hope Colin Smyth is managing the guilt of being ejected and is actively seeking help to combat what has been described as his “barracking, hectoring tone”.

Councillor Jane Maitland sums it up;

“There’s a kind of barracking, hectoring tone and I don’t think he realises how unpleasant it is for the rest of us.”

After Smyth was ordered out, the rest of the 14-strong Labour group left in solidarity.

Or to describe it better, left in the huff, the huff being more important than democracy and Council business!

Where was Smyth’s leadership in preventing that, where was the public service, where was the fighting for the people?

Nowhere!

The Labour Party fight for themselves like the rag bag collection they are; the blight on Scottish society, Scotland's shame.

So, what advice would I give my visitor?

24 minutes to read two pages, read faster.

Yours sincerely

George Laird
The Campaign for Human Rights at Glasgow University