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Now a Tartan Tory?

Terry Kelly - Coward

I have been banned from Terry’s comments for some time because I reported (accurately) that his fellow Labour councillors were claiming his absence from full meetings of the council were an attempt at undermining the group leader.

The other day he launched into a gratuitous personal attack against me (probably motivated by my touching a nerve about his support of Glasgow Celtic). I expected that he would allow me a right to reply on his site. But it appears that as of this time he has not had the common decency to publish it and defend himself. This is the act of a coward who probably now regrets launching into this diatribe having read the small print beneath the latest graphics and realised it was Shotgun and not myself who published them.

What a horrible, small, nasty man who has to look himself in the mirror every day. Right now I do feel sorry for him.

PS: I had the foresight to publish my reply on my own site.

Black Dog - or The Labrador That Dare Not Speak Its Name

In a recent post, our good friend Councillor Kelly unleashed yet another tiresome diatribe against the armed forces.

In this post, Terry mentions that Guy Gibson (of Dambusters) fame was a particular hero of his.

However, the poor Councillor, in response to a question in the comments section he is unable to bring himself to print the name of Guy Gibson's dog - Nigger.

The councillor's justification?

Anonymous 15:13

The black Labrador, are you saying he was a racist ? This was the early 1940’s and it was Britain not America.

The word you allude did not carry the same subtext as it does now.

I did respond to the councillor asking why he could not bring himself to print the dog's name and whether, during the 1940's only Americans had sole rights to use the word "nigger" as a derogatory insult. Or was it perhaps only after the war that Americans, having beaten the Germans were looking for a new "evil" to fight?

I further went on to ask whether he thought the dog's name would be retained in Peter Jackson's forthcoming remake of The Dambusters.

I'm still waiting for the councillor to respond. I won't hold my breath.

I think I may have just thrown myself out of the club ...

Terry has a post up regarding Glyn Travis's comments about the pampering of British prisoners. He doesn't blame Maggie, or the SNP (although he doesn't admit, but we wouldn't expect, would we, how much worse 10+ years of Labour Home Secretaries have made things). I couldn't spot a spelling mistake (although his grammar is still cr@p and his formatting appalling - but this is Our Hero we are talking about). In short, a Terry post I actually agree with. Read it yourself.

In case he has a heart attack (he must be high on the risk list) at me supporting him therefore fails to approve my comment, you can see it below:

Entirely - there are a number of appalling failings in the prison system and these do appear to be worse in Scotland.

People with serious mental health or drug problems should be in care, not in prison - I accept that some need to be confined for the safety of society - but the lack of funding, especially for drugs treatment is a disgrace.

Prison should have two purposes - punishment and rehabilitation. The lack of effort put into the latter is disgusting - whether it is some spin doctor's "we can't be seen to be soft on criminals" frankly bollocks, or a lack of understanding about the way some prisons have operated to further distance prisoners from mainstream society.

The status of pregnant and nursing women is an issue for society - especially as so many, compared to the male prison population, are in prison for issues that, frankly, custody is a poor answer for - prostitution and drugs possession offences and non-payment of fines. At the very least, sufficient female staff should be provided to allow as much decorum in their treatment as is compatible with basic security.

The endless ratcheting up of tariffs to appease the Daily Mail brigade, the latest front page outrage and the understandably upset victims needs to be stopped - prison should be a last resort rather than the initial reaction. But that requires proper funding of probation and community sentence options and the ever-absent politician with a backbone.

I am going to have a drink now to convince myself that I have not whole-heartedly agreed with a Terry post.

I'm not sure I feel quite clean.

Work Avoidance Task today

Trawling through SNP blogs today and I came across this utterly fantastic graphic.



I link here

Can You Impress Terry?

It had to happen. At long last a fellow fan has put together a video tribute to our Terry. Sadly Terry is not impressed in fact if I'm not mistaken there is a definite note of contempt in his response.

However like the ultimate triumph of world socialism, it is inevitable that one of Terry's many, many fans will come up with something that meets our favourite councillor's high standards. Who will it be? Come on get film making comrades! Show Terry that we care.

I'll be keeping my eyes peeled for the best Terry tributes and featuring them here and here