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It appears that the recurring theme of gangsters in Glasgow has reared its ugly head yet again.

SNP Councillor Billy McAllister had written to Labour Provost Bob Winter asking for a debate on a council motion on organised crime in the city.

The Lord Provost has refused the debate citing that 'he will decide all matters of order, competence and relevence.'

Naturally it is within his authority to grant of deny motions to council business, however I can't quite get my head around why Glasgow city council wouldn't want to at least debate this obvious problem. 

We know of the near cult status some of these people accrue and the plethora of hagiographies that climb the bestseller's list, perhaps they give the reader some vicarious thrill to read about thugs shooting each other up the arse with shotguns. All the same, surely it's the responsibility of every elected politician to stand up to the gangsters, dealers and thugs that control huge swathes of Scotland.

Willie Bain, the Labour PPC has deemed that the good folk of Glasgow North East are not interested in the root causes of organised crime and are only interested in locking up kids caught carrying knives. I suspect that Labour have read the runes wrong, failure to address one of the core problems in the constituency could have a disastrous effect on Labours ability to hold on to their massive majority. Failure to not even discuss or recognise the problem, naturally, gives carte blanche, to that particular breed of unemployed Labourers, tanning salon owners, security bosses and taxi drivers with second homes in Spain.