Dear All
There I was sitting about yesterday when a text pops up on
my phone, to my surprise the text told me that Glasgow East MP Natalie McGarry had
been charged by police in connection with alleged fraud.
I have said it before and I will say it again, in my opinion
Natalie McGarry is unfit to be an MP, what a huge mistake unpopular Nicola
Sturgeon made backing her, what a huge mistake the SNP made in selecting her.
In June 2013, I wrote a blog post about the SNP’s attempts
to win over Conservatives; it wasn’t a hatchet job on her but an assessment
that she was wrong.
What happened next came as a real surprise as I had never to
my knowledge had a run in with her.
Natalie McGarry then decided to link my blog to a hate
account run by her associate Tommy Ball who operated a twitter account called
@georgemlaird.
I found this:
I've made it! At last I've been designated non-Jedi by the
great sage that is @georgemlaird Want
a laugh? Here ya go:
http://glasgowunihumanrights.blogspot.co.uk/2013/06/scottish-independence-natalie-mcgarry.html?m=1 …”
McGarry who socialised with Tommy Ball who (later ended up being
convicted) tried to pass off his account as mine on the twitter social media
platform. The account by Tommy Ball was all about branding me a paedophile, Ball
as I mentioned in the past also attempted Identity theft.
Natalie McGarry is Nicola Sturgeon’s pal, and I was being
targeted by those who surround Nicola Sturgeon, her nasty vicious southside
clique.
So, we have a Nationalist MP in the shape of Natalie
McGarry, her mother is or was an SNP Cllr, her auntie was the Presiding Officer
at Holyrood, and the SNP is filled with many little family dynasties.
One of the things in politics that you must do is be
accountable and the way to be accountable is to follow the rules to the letter,
especially if there are a legal aspect or you are the custodian of finances or
assets.
Natalie McGarry was part of the group which founded Women
for Independence which was like many phoney little groups setup by SNP members
and their allies. Having been given a title, the press put Natalie McGarry on
the TV and Radio as ‘Natalie McGarry, Women for Independence’.
I faced off against her myself on BBC Radio 5 Live on ‘White
Paper Day’, a truly underwhelming affair, not the BBC event but the SNP launch,
my thoughts on this were explained in this blog post.
Before I forget, Nicola Sturgeon saw me that day over at
Holyrood and when she saw me her head went straight down, no angry wee Nat routine
towards George Laird, her feral Southside mob were doing that task.
At the close of the programme, guests get to do a final
pitch, I did my pitch on trust; people didn’t trust Alex Salmond or his
Government, instead of putting her own pitch, Natalie McGarry was forced to
defend Salmond with a miserable reply.
I won!
Natalie McGarry ‘s tenure as an MP hasn’t been impressive,
quite the opposite, everything you do and everything you say gets picked over
by your opponents, and McGarry made a name for herself for all the wrong
reasons. She used twitter to smear not just me, but also people as famous as JK
Rowling, that didn’t go down too well. And then there was the smearing of
Alistair Cameron who is a director of Scotland in Union, that incident went nuclear very quickly in the press. Natalie McGarry was forced to apologise and
pay a sum of money to charity.
I never got to name Natalie McGarry in open court because
Tommy Ball pled guilty to get a reduced sentence, but yesterday across the road
from me at Govan Police Station Natalie McGarry has been charged by the police
in connection with alleged fraud.
The criminal charges relate to a five-figure sum missing
from the Women for Independence group and the SNP’s Glasgow Regional
Association.
The surprise one for me is the SNP’s Glasgow Regional
Association which previously McGarry was the Convenor, but when I blogged on
the Cowdenbeath By-election Special, I remarked that there were some people I
was told in the SNP who were rooting for a Labour victory, not just any old Nat
but the real die hard division.
Natalie McGarry had imploded the SNP vote by about 50%,
politics a funny old game you have to laugh.
McGarry's solicitor is Aamer Anwar, I remember this clown
from my Glasgow University days, anyway he said:
"I can confirm that Natalie McGarry MP attended
voluntarily with myself as her solicitor this morning at Govan Police Station”.
I like the use of the word ‘voluntarily’, it kind of implies
that she had a choice in the matter, like it was a meeting of the minds and a cosy
wee affair, it wasn’t!
Anwar added:
"Following an interview, she was charged this afternoon
with several alleged offences including embezzlement of funds, breach of trust
and an offence under the Scottish Independence Referendum Act 2013”.
Can you feel the cosyness?
Me neither!
Anwar’s final pitch is:
"She was released and will now be the subject of a
report to the Procurator Fiscal. There will be no further comment.”
The Police release people so as not to clog up the jails,
and as to the “no further comment”, this is standard advice by a lawyer to keep
your mouth shut.
Nicola Sturgeon who backed Natalie McGarry has said the
accusations are “very serious”, well if you are charged with several alleged
offences including embezzlement of funds, breach of trust and an offence under
the Scottish Independence Referendum Act 2013, you can’t fault Nicola Sturgeon
for stating the bleeding obvious.
I wonder if the SNP MPs will be keeping their distance now
the Police have stepped up a gear or they will wrap their arms around McGarry
and do a ‘she is oor Nat’ routine?
In May this year, Police Scotland began investigating a
second complaint against McGarry, after the SNP’s Glasgow Regional Association
reported around £4000 unaccounted for. The amount doesn’t interest me in this
aspect of the case, who filed the complaint with Police Scotland; does, previously McGarry was SNP Convenor from 2011 till 2015. I remember her being installed as
Convenor when the former member stepped down. Instead of thanking him for his
efforts, the feeling in the room that night was to ‘bad mouth’ him by some of
Nicola Sturgeon’s southside clique.
I don’t by enlarge attend court cases, when Tommy Sheridan’s
was on trial I took an interest in it but never went to court to see the action
unfold, if Natalie McGarry is taken to court by the Procurator Fiscal, you can
be damn sure I will be attending this one!
Under the Representation of the People Act any MP jailed in the UK for more than a year is disqualified from membership of the House of Commons and their seat will be vacated.
Finally, Natalie McGarry, who was elected as the SNP member for Glasgow East in May 2015 is denying any wrongdoing.
Yours sincerely
George Laird
The Campaign for Human Rights at Glasgow University
It would be good to find out who actually reported it to cops. Hope she goes for trial. I'll have plenty popcorn and ice cream at hand.
ReplyDeleteWe could get a defence of "dark forces" or MI5 dunnit. Also no defence of a vulnerable wummin .
It could have been The Toaries.
It's taken long enough,,,, serves her right,, chuffed to bits.
ReplyDeleteARE you going to the court Georgie boy:)
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