WeegieGate – the Plot Sickens.
The political sewer formerly known as Glasgow continues to give good headlines to the eternal shame of its ‘good citizens’.
For the benefit of southern readers who have been shielded from the unedifying spectacle that is Nu-Labour’s heartland by a compliant Main Stream Media, we shall start with one of the few stories that did make it south.
The ‘desperate and penniless’ asylum seekers who apparently couldn’t find a working lift in their Glasgow tenement. At first sight the three Ukrainians who roped themselves together and left via a 15th floor window were the stuff of classic Nu-Labour propaganda. We were invited to conjure up a picture of the cold bleak steppes from which they had escaped, the savage torture and starvation that Nu-Labour had welcomed them into our bosom to escape. Who could deny them the meagre few pennies of tax payers funds that allowed them to eke out a bleak existence in a council owned tower block in the frozen North?
Alas, that story evaporated as fast as Nu-Labour’s credibility. It was not the cold bleak steppes from which they had escaped, but a luxury £1,250 a month flat in sunny London. A rent they had no difficulty in paying, despite being asylum seekers who were not permitted to work. Surely though, that was just a temporary base, a respite from the cruel life they had endured which made them worthy of our charity?
Er, No. The £1,250 flat was a respite from the horrors endured in – Canada, a country where they had already been granted asylum, having lived there since the year 2000.
Quite why we should be providing accommodation and benefits to persons escaping the civilised life of Canada is beyond me; equally beyond my comprehension is how the jobless Mr Serykh managed to fund a £1,250 flat out of private monies, or why he should then head for the drug capital of the Scottish north to live amongst the weegies. Perhaps if I think about it for long enough.
His daughter has apparently returned to Russia, the land they lived in fear of, to breed rats of all things, but maybe she took some fine breeding specimens with her from Glasgow. I wish her well with her enterprise.
Back to Glasgow, a city noted for the large holes that appear everywhere, some of which may have been dug by councillors and their cohorts attempting to explain away their own behaviour. The Sunday Times has done an excellent exhumation of the rotting corpses surrounding the involvement of Scottish ‘fridge magnate’ Willie Haughey, a major donor to Nu-Labour’s depleted funds, whose companies have benefited from his close relationship with Steven Purcell.
“You have to understand that you would not be the Labour leader at Glasgow city council without having the support of Haughey,” said one Labour source. “He bankrolls the party. Purcell was in hock to Haughey as the rest of Scottish Labour is.”
Purcell collected millionaire fridge magnates as others collect fridge magnets, and amongst his collection of high living party animals was Stefan King, owner of the preferred (plural) gay venues in Glasgow. King bought an iconic building on George Square for £5m – and sold it for £12m a short time later.
Steven Purcell said: “I used my influence as Leader to help facilitate negotiations…
“I’m delighted that Stefan King agreed…”
Stefan King of G1 Group, said: “When Councillor Purcell approached us regarding interest shown in the building, it was at a time when we still considered No 1 to be a long term property hold. However he encouraged us to meet with the interested parties…”
Oh dear!
The City of Culture (sic, very sick) in 1990 had not finished ‘hogging’ the headlines yet though, for the Sunday Mirror has revealed that Purcell and his gay partner (who, if it turns out to be Mandelson, my joy will be complete) have fled to the Cayman Isles, host to the bankers of choice for the drug cartels…..and there they are being cared for by the brother of a former Glasgow Catholic priest – the very one who packed him off to Castle Craig to undertake a cure for his non-dependency on Cocaine. Brian Dempsey, the Scottish millionaire (oh look! another one) now cast in the role of chief nurse, is believed to be paying for the expensive legal and media advice which prevented all this from coming out in the papers……good value you got there Brian, excellent.
My entirely unprofessional investment advice is to buy shares in Castle Craig, at this rate they will have a full house and a quorum to hold council meetings in the group therapy room by the end of the week.
‘My name’s Willie, and I’m an addict, and I’d like to move that the council sell off the refuse collection, and civic parks division to my brother-in-law’.
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March 15, 2010 at 10:05 -
Glad to see you once again giving this story the attention it deserves.
One point though tenements don’t generally have lifts in them. The Russians were living in a tower block which is a very different thing from the 4 storey tenement I’m sitting in right now.
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March 15, 2010 at 10:22 -
“fridge magnate” – love it!
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March 15, 2010 at 11:03 -
There are “good citizens” in Glasgow – still?
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March 15, 2010 at 11:08 -
With respect, Anna, on this occasion you’re talking mince, as we say in Weegieland – I’m currently sitting about a mile away from the Red Road Flats, which are one of the most desperate places in the whole of this dear, green city, and you or I wouldn’t last a day there. To use this tragedy, as some sort of stick to beat the anti-asylum drum, both surprises and appalls me, to be honest, as I would have considered that to be beneath you. The folk who survive there (you couldn’t call it “living”), several of whom I have daily contact with, go about their daily business as best they can and try to keep a modicum of self-dignity, in the face of atrocious living conditions. Many of them attend this college, in an attempt to improve their chances, and are honest, decent, polite and dedicated students, who are often far more pleasant to deal with than some of our indigenous intake – personally, I’ve nothing but respect for them and wish them all the best, as they deserve better than this.
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March 15, 2010 at 11:47 -
To be honest, Anna, I don’t care – 3 people died, one a 17 year-old boy who might well have been one of our students and could have made a better life for himself. That deserves a degree of respect and, perhaps, some consideration that, when we use our privileges to moan about trivialties, we should occasionally remember that, in the great scheme of things, we are a shower of lucky bastards, compared to some.
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March 15, 2010 at 13:21 -
Life is made difficult for certain Canadians (wives of British soldiers)
http://www.northnorfolknews.co.uk/content/northnorfolknews/search/story.aspx?brand=NNNOnline&category=home&itemid=NOED22 Feb 2010 13:52:54:737&tBrand=NNNOnline&tCategory=search
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March 15, 2010 at 13:31 -
Well done Anna
Keep at it.
From the Glasgow based filthy fingers Press.
Nothing
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March 15, 2010 at 13:35 -
They have “cold bleak steppes” in Canada. And London is not “sunny”.
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March 15, 2010 at 13:42 -
I too was very surprised about the three people being roped together.
It is like something from a Russian Mafia movie. Did they upset the locals or the already established organisations operating.
There is only one way to make money without paying tax. It is called criminal activity.
Most Asylum seekers are very poor. Ones with lots of money are part of organised crime gangs.
This story is really suspect and the lack of details on the backgrounds seems strange. There seems to be a spate of unexplained deaths in Glasgow at the moment.
Something really suspect is going on in weegie city and I am starting to think the “cleaners” have been called in to remove all the lose ends while the MSM look the other way.
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March 15, 2010 at 14:02 -
The ‘roped together thing appears to be a myth that is being repeated all over the place.
Like Vimes I teach in Glasgow colleges and know that asylum seekers often make for some of the best and keenest students, however like Anna, I don’t think this family, tragic and horrific though their fate was, had very much in common with the asylum seekers I see day to day.
People on both sides of the asylum argument, pro and anti should be wary of using this highly unusual case to make a point about anything much at all beyond pondering what drove them to it.
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March 15, 2010 at 15:09 -
The quango that Purcell set up is now under investigation. Details on my blog.
As for the ‘aylum seekers’ story
http://aangirfan.blogspot.com/2010/03/who-raided-serge-serykhs-flat.html
http://aangirfan.blogspot.com/2010/03/mystery-surrounding-serge-serykh.html
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March 15, 2010 at 19:52 -
Vimes
Charity begins at home. You spend what you want to; pursue the mega-rich oligarchs to look after their own.
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March 15, 2010 at 22:18 -
Aye, right – Barmulloch’s gone right downhill, since all those oligarchs moved in.
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March 15, 2010 at 22:45 -
When is the Press going to look at City Property Glasgow? Yet another arm’s length company controlled by a Friend of Steven.
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March 16, 2010 at 12:04 -
Living in SA I am familiar with something called wors, but in searching for an explanation for the three Ukrainian lemmings I suspect a more appropriate word would be vors
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