Dear All
Awhile ago, I dubbed the previous Glasgow
Labour Council, the Labour Council of Shame!
The Labour Party seeing the amount of
deadwood decided to have a cull; unfortunately, some people were unjustly
treated and got bumped.
Some others should have been shown the door
a long time ago.
One of the people who is definitely in need of
being out on the bricks is Sohan Singh.
Since becoming a Labour Councillor, Singh
has re-invented himself as a Labour Councillor of Shame.
In the past, he has operated an illegal
Landlord, suspended by the council's ruling Labour group for several weeks
after parking in a disabled bay, warned about liquor law breaches at his city
Kelvin Lorne Hotel. The latest in the catalogue of disgrace is a hotel he owns
called the Artto Hotel has been trading without a liquor licence for more than
a year.
A Police Scotland spokeswoman said:
"Police attended the Artto Hotel on
Hope Street today and told the management they were no longer allowed to sell
alcohol. It can remain open as a hotel but not sell alcohol."
Singh’s excuse was:
"I am the owner of the hotel. Nothing
more. I don't run it. But this seems to be little more than a bureaucratic
oversight. The manager was licensed and the firm which took over last June
believed this was all that was required. They were unaware that the liquidation
of the previous company meant the licence no longer had effect. In all the
years this hotel has been running, we've never had issues with the police. This
is an issue of paperwork, which lawyers are now dealing with."
In case you don’t know what Singh is
saying, it is called mitigation.
Speaking in an obvious sense of outrage, a
friend of Singh said:
"If Sohan wasn't a councillor, nobody
would bat an eyelid at this. Which businessman has every 'i' dotted and 't'
crossed? The police have acted on a complaint and you've got to ask by whom."
Sounds like shit to me, apparently Mr.
Singh is fraternised by politicians from across the spectrum.
This is because he has money, both the
Labour Party and the SNP are always on the outlook for potential donors, if
Singh was kicked out of Labour, then the SNP would welcome him and his money
with open arms.
In trying to make political capital out of
the situation, the current caretaker SNP leader at Glasgow City Council Graeme
Hendry said a pattern had clearly emerged with Mr Singh's businesses.
Would that be he employs people who don’t
give a fuck until they get caught breaking regulations?
Hendry added:
"Yet again this so-called Labour
A-list councillor has shown he has little or no regard for operating within the
rules administered by his own council. Unfortunately, this lax approach to the
rules seems to reflect the whole Glasgow Labour approach to governing. Labour's
definition of an A-list candidate would be Z-list anywhere else."
Actually the part time SNP leader is wrong,
Singh’s fuck ups, don’t transfer across to the rest for the simple reason that
they aren’t involved. Poor spin, and if we look back to not so ancient history,
the SNP welcomed with open arms Irfan Rabbini, you can google his history.
Speaking of Z list, the current crop of SNP Councillors are Team Sturgeon
cronies.
I wonder if SNP Councillor Graeme Hendry
knows who in his SNP group has been dubbed the ‘illiterate councillor’?
And further to that every SNP candidate
selected for the Euro elections is either a Team Salmond or Team Sturgeon crony.
Z list?
I think Graeme Hendry should train his less
than forensic skills on Sturgeon’s cronies many of whom are part time
councillors holding down other jobs.
These people aren’t holding anyone to
account.
As to 2017, the next Glasgow City Council
election, Labour Party has already won that election, Glaswegians saw how poor
Nicola Sturgeon’s cronies are, and you have to look at how the Scottish
independence campaign has totally collapsed. Recently half the senior
management team of Yes Scotland has abandoned ship.
It seems that Nicola Sturgeon’s statement
of:
“This is our big chance” isn’t shared by
her 90 minute Nationalists.
Alex Salmond’s 90 minute Nationalists
aren’t exactly ‘talented’ as the SNP hype would have you believe, looking at the CV’s
you might be tempted to think high flyers, poll after poll shows they can’t even
taxi on the runway never mind do a solo flight.
As to Sohan Singh, we haven’t heard the
last of him, like a bad penny there will be more stories which will show that
just as Labour were right to have a clear out, they should have exercised
better judgment and scrutiny in the new intake.
Given independence support has collapsed,
it is highly unlikely he will jump to the SNP; presumably he can spot a bad
investment.
Yours sincerely
George Laird
The Campaign for Human Rights at Glasgow
University
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