Whatever happened to the 67%

The results of May 3 local election, have brought the usual political hysteria of ‘Mine’s bigger than your’s’ and 'we won this and held that', shit. The wall to wall depressing media coverage of Party spin doctors convincing us their side had won, and promising to deliver services, that in all probability will never be delivered and had no hope of ever being so in the 1^st place.

Depressing regurgitation of national politics onto local issues, had distorted local accountability and skewed debate. All this gleefully cheered on by none less than the ‘inscrutable’ BBCscotland, an organisation who’s in-ability to report factual voter numbers, rather than its own self delusional statistics‘. Added to this, the undue haste to proclaim ‘labour ‘as victors. Based on nothing more than wishful thinking was indeed a sight to behold. If not to be gazed in absolute horror.

This bastion of the ‘free press', who gleefully pedal those values across the globe, like some moral kevlar. Yet in the UK it's acted like no more than a state broadcaster, more akin to Syria than the contrived image the BBC would like to pretend it represents worldwide.

Enough of bbc bashing, they’re clearly not the only one’s to blame, there are other’s equally culpable

And some who are just downright guilty.

The disengagement of 67% of Glasgow electorate is shocking, appalling this tragedy, played out to a background of a Labour national leadership celebrating like a 2^nd Division team who had just won the Scottish cup, had they not been listening 67% didn’t vote.

Labour the party of the working class, whose social engineering policies have led to this endemic and systematic failure,  has disempowered and disengaged the vast majority of this city. Glasgow is a European city, but it has an identity crisis, it feels like I’m living in a city, gripped with ‘Stockholm syndrome’.

So it’s a big hand, to Glasgow labour party, we’ve had less than a century of universal suffrage and the right to vote, and you’ve managed to turn the clock back 150yrs, a big thank you.

On a slightly different tack, I at least live in an area were there is some hope, ‘Partick West’ returned 2 SNP and 1 Green cllr, an aside to this. The term ‘Partick West’ may look good in estate agents windows; it sounds like we’ve been annexed by the trendy west end. House prices anyone? Can we not have the correct burgh names, ‘Scotstoun and Whiteinch’ this would sound far better and include historic accuracy.

As I write Rangers have been told their SFA sanction stands, now there are those who persist this is disproportionate, well Rangers are not being judged on a Scottish standard, but a European standard. Supporters should take a look around some of the European clubs and penalties they’ve incurred, to realise this is in reality, pretty light and should now ‘man up’ and take the medicine,