The same tabloids that have been ever so reluctant to dump all over Mr Purcell and the Labour Party this past week. An 'Exclusive' wherein, we will no doubt encounter a chastened, refreshed and tearful Mr Purcell pouring his heart out over his anguished torment, his loss of power, his fair weather friends, his search for love, his take on the many personalities, politicians and criminals he's encountered and his view of the modernised Scotland he was destined to lead away from the vile yoke of separatism.
Naturally should such an event occur, then those same tabloids who dithered, obfuscated and minimised the story, when Mr Purcell's resignation as Glasgow City Council leader first broke, will be first up to splash the wonga in Mr Purcell's direction, through his PR team, naturally. That would be the same PR team that has a huge influence on the stories the tabloids love to brand as 'Exclusive'. There's nary an 'Auld Firm' story that doesn't have their size 11 predator boots stamped all over it. The access and influence such people have over the 'power of the press' is quite simply wrong. A newspaper industry dependent on parasites, who control their stories and screw them out of substantial sums has lost direction.
As to Mr Purcell's fondness for the Bolivian marching powder, well, as Glasgow, indeed Scotland is blighted by a drugs epidemic, where an unimaginable amount of money is spent educating our youngsters on the dangers of drugs, where our police spend the majority of their time fighting the criminal effects of drug dealing, the NHS mop up the mess left by drug consumption, (how much out of their £11 billion budget goes on coping with the aftermath of drug abuse?) all I can say is congratulations Labour and their drinking and dining buddies in the Scottish press for keeping this story out of the public domain. Your silence has allowed the man who would be King to run a £2.4 billion budget, four-days-a-week, to the best of his ability as a functioning addict..
Remember behind every gram of coke lies a trail of misery, controlled every step of the way by criminals. Mr Purcell, snorting a couple of lines at the opening of some new fancy hairdressers salon in Drumchuckie, leads all the way back through the hard men gangsters in Glasgow's East End, via corrupt cops, customs officials, venal financiers, drug barons, to dirt poor bastards in hot climates scraping a living at the business end of a gun. Where do the profits end up? Well let's look at security companies, taxi companies, tanning salons, nightclubs and bars. Where 'special' clientèle can snort to their hearts content, safe in the knowledge, that if anyone kicks up a fuss, somewhere along the line, a cop, solicitor or politician has their back.
This story has set back all the good work previous Labour politicians and policies have done in fighting drugs. How can Labour councillors, MSP's and MP's stand up now and pontificate on the dangers of drugs, knowing that they have protected and promoted one of their own, who was at the very centre of Scotland's drugs problem? This is a problem that will be with us for years to come.
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Another dreadful piece of writing. Actually, it's not writing - it's typing.
Don't censor me, you stooge, etc.
Excellent post, Mark. Superb, punchy stuff.
You're in danger of becoming an enemy of the establishment you know ;]
Ooh it's teeny weeny micro-cocked Ali/Craig/Paul/Euan. Outed any more cyber Nats lately? Incidentally, if you're going to rip off Truman Capote's comments about Kerouak at least attribute it to him, that's what writers do, innit?.
Just a tad cynical Mark?
Makes me think you had been put through the ringer by the same?
At least fro The Herald Sunday version we know all we didn't need to know about about Rangers and their off-on takeover maybes. Bread and cakes eh?
A propos "a full and frank story of my life and how I came through the dark hours," I think this story has a long way to run, as have a number of others, apart from Steven Purcell.
No doubt we will be kept up to date by The Herald, The Scotsman and BBC Scotland: aye right!
The real question, apart from the detail, is how far up and sideways it went and when will this be revealed with respect to the Westminster and Holyrood GEs coing up.
The blogosphere could well come into its own then?
Cynical? Bugger me,I'm sceptical of professional sceptics who work for MSP's and collude with legal sorts and tabloid journos to defend their delicate sensitivities. Imagine it a Unionist researcher blogging from work at the Scottish Parliament, doesn't bear thinking about.
Anyhoo, the one piece of information that caused a man-size chuckle this morning was the news that Messrs Irvine and Watson jetted off First Class, to no less that the discerning drug dealers tax exile of choice, the Cayman Islands, for a wee rest after their hard work this week.
Ali, can you link to something you have written? Just for comparisons sake.
Conan,
I make no claims to be a writer. I have no published writing. Does this mean I cannot have a valid opinion on Mark's terrible limitations as a wordsmith.
You have views on politicians, yet you are not a politician.
mark,
more abuse. When will you tell your daughters why you did what you did and why daddy got himself sacked before Christmas?
Spot on Mark - This Ali must live in a parallel universe where the "Scottish" press put Scotland and its people before political parties funded by another country.
Either that or the drugs he is on makes him believe that.
Ho hum, abuse? Shit off, you syphilitic spunknugget. How's that, did it set your little gristle a-throbbing?
Great accuracy again Ali. When I buy my sons dresses I suppose I could call them daughters, don't expect they'll take to it.
Hmm - I would have put my money on Mr twitchy Grey as the one snorting the white stuff. Even Gaga himself has a certain nervous irritability that could be explained in this way. Then again maybe they are all at it in the party of the peepul.
Ah the famous and yet reviled Ali crawls out from underneath his stone.
I know one person who is looking to track you down and I am going to tell the that you have resurfaced like the foetid turd that you are.
Oh, happy days, the hunt is back on.
Good article Monty
It's all gone quiet on the Purcell front.
Same as it has gone all quiet on the GARL front by the Labour party.
I wonder if the two are linked?
Mark,
I'm one for saying what has to be said. If that has to be in English instead of Doric so be it. Purcell knew the score yet continued I have no sympathy for weak willed people in positions of power. He got to the point of no return and self imploded, hope he can recover and enjoy some quality of life, unlike the poor bastards he's left bereft of their entitlements in Glesga.
As for Ali best ignored, someone else who has no life so to speak of and just wants attention. Unfortunately life has many people sent to test us, how you react is up to you.
Good blog, always enjoyable inspite of your infamy! The system is there to benefit those that hold a key or can buy themselves in. Once you're in sometimes it's better to have stayed out!
Let's hope that through this blog and others efforts the truth is outed.
Saor Alba
CD
Interesting to note today Labour insisting that there would be no review of decisions made under Purcell's stewardship of GCC.
The one question that our thrawn Scottish press should be asking over and over again, is what reason was Brown given for Purcell rejecting the opportunity to stand in Glasgow East in 2007? Surely like all candidates he had to be vetted by the party to ascertain his suitability as a potential upstanding member. Was he vetted, was his cocaine use flagged up?
Nice to see that Ayrshire Scot is alive and well.
I have your description of another as a
"Sycophantic Aromatherispist"
printed out and on my wall.
Classic
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Bugger!
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