Dear All
It is Monday, just another Monday in a series of Mondays as
we navigate the politics lows that is Holyrood but today is different,
disgraced Mark McDonald returned.
Holyrood was built, a slogan was uttered, and pretty soon,
hope died pretty much after its birth.
“There shall be a Scottish Parliament”!
What the declaration missed out that it would be filled with
dross, and petty politics and incompetence would be its hallmark. What the
place needs is shamed and former SNP MSP Mark McDonald is the poster
boy.
McDonald has the solemn task to ‘stink’ the place up to high
heaven, to lower the tone of this dump even further, he is doing it for the ‘weans’,
not the weans of Scotland but his two, daddy needs to bring home the bacon so
they can scoff it.
Mark McDonald is back!
One thing which he shouldn’t be doing is giving speeches on
being “morally justified” given he has already held his hands up to admitting
inappropriate behaviour towards women.
“Morally justified” and inappropriate behaviour towards
women, can someone square that circle for me, and the rest of Scotland
Nicola Sturgeon has urged the MSP to leave Holyrood because
the stink of McDonald makes her rather whiffy as well, she publicly backed
McDonald as a good MSP, and she has to say this in case Alex Salmond acts up if
she doesn’t show enough enthusiasm.
This is her on TV.
The discomfort is her trying to distance herself and failing
miserably.
Apparently Mark McDonald wants to demonstrate he has changed,
well given this is out in the public domain, he has little choice but to watch
his step in Holyrood and elsewhere, he will be under a microscope for the rest
of his tenure. He will be keeping his trap shut and his phone under wraps. Three
women are said to have identified “persistent” behaviour, which included inappropriate
and unwanted text messages, unwanted attention and exploiting his position of
power.
Oh, exploiting his position of power.
McDonald said:
“Morally I can justify it because, as I have said, my
approach to this has been to own the mistakes that I have made but to
demonstrate that I have learned from them and that I am capable of changing as
a result of those. I am asking people to afford me that opportunity, and I hope
that people will do that. I accept that many relationships are going to have to
be rebuilt – some people will want nothing to do with me and I have to
regretfully accept that, but there are some people who I think will want to
offer me that opportunity to demonstrate that I’ve learned from this and that
I’ve changed.”
He added:
“I want to be able to demonstrate that my behaviour has
changed and I am not sure that doing that through a by-election campaign is the
appropriate way to do it.”
Well, that kind of puts the kibosh on Alex Salmond’s hopes
of attempting to mount a comeback to politics.
One of the people who also wish Mark McDonald gone is James
Dornan, James Dornan is standing to be deputy leader so his intervention could
be seen as a self serving plea for votes for his chances to be Sturgeon’s
number 2.
Dornan said:
“He should certainly never set foot in the Scottish
Parliament again and I will be making an official complaint on Monday to the
parliamentary authorities to ask for his removal from the parliament to be
considered.”
So, what will happen if there is an official complaint?
Nothing, that’s right, absolutely nothing!
Another candidate for Deputy, Economy Secretary Keith Brown told
Good Morning Scotland on McDonald:
“I think the position is if you concede the point that you
have acted inappropriately and you think that has been sufficiently bad that
you have to resign as an SNP MSP, I think the logic of that means that you
should resign as an MSP as well.”
Everyone following the Sturgeon line, Holyrood better get
use to the stink of Mark McDonald, maybe someone could buy him out if they have
£200k, but I suspect that he would want a top up above that an extra £200k. I
don’t see him wanting to step down and lose three years wages.
Finally, using Mark McDonald as a plank to get votes for
candidates in the deputy leadership will be seen by the candidates as morally
justified, but the reality is that Dornan and Brown are just picking the meat
of a political corpse.
This act shows how shallow the SNP are as a party
collective, they all operate to the same low standards. Mark McDonald is in
disgrace, if he has "changed", it doesn’t matter, he wouldn’t be rebuilding
relationships that is just fantasy, especially in the SNP Cult, the worker ants
don’t have independent thought.
The word from Sturgeon is banishment.
Yours sincerely
George Laird
The Campaign for Human Rights at Glasgow University
3 comments:
The whole story looks as if it is on the verge of leaking fully. What next maybe the text messages published however going by reports one of the victims has had a torrid and unpleasant time your heart has to go out to her. I imagine that Sturgeon took the ostrich method in the hope it would go away, it hasn't and doesn't look like doing so anytime soon.
Just what has this guy supposed to have done. It’s all sort of hush-hush and since the boys in blue are not involved it makes it even more suspect. Did Kranky try and get rid of him so fat-boy Salmond got a chance to get back into our wee fake parliament. Has it all backfired on noddy heid? Why is this guy being demonised and yet nobody really knows what he’s accused of.
I have no love for the SNP however it seems very strange to me that the police are not involved? Why have the SNP not handed over the details of their investigation? Why if you'd be harassed to the point where you've had a stroke would you not report it? Let me play devils advocate here, this man has not been found guilty by a court of law therefore is innocent. He has been stuck in the basement, Willie Rennie stating he will not give way to any intervention from tgis MSP. Is this the way someone should be treated when he's not been found guilty? I have full sympathy for anyone who has been harassed but if as serious as we are being led to believe them take it to Police Scotland.
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