SodjesSixteenIncher Posted December 5, 2014 Share Posted December 5, 2014 I met Ruth Davidson once and she didn't swear once. She must think it makes her sound relatable when she has to coverse with tradesman scheme goblin types. Anyway, I meet politicians a fair bit. Last one I was speaking to for any length of time was Jenny Mara. Polite but seemed pretty disingenuous, which is exactly what I would've expected. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JamboMikey Posted December 5, 2014 Share Posted December 5, 2014 Saw Annabel Goldie on an Edinburgh to Glasgow train a few years ago. Thought she was bad on the telly but she's worse in the flesh. Looks like a bucket of smashed crabs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Bairn Posted December 5, 2014 Share Posted December 5, 2014 I met Ruth Davidson once and she didn't swear once. She must think it makes her sound relatable when she has to coverse with tradesman scheme goblin types. Anyway, I meet politicians a fair bit. Last one I was speaking to for any length of time was Jenny Mara. Polite but seemed pretty disingenuous, which is exactly what I would've expected. ^^^ Tradesman scheme goblin type IMO Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sparky88 Posted December 6, 2014 Share Posted December 6, 2014 Willie Bain is a really weird man. Both Willie Rennie and Nicola sturgeon are acually quite personable and easy to talk to. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shiltrum Posted December 6, 2014 Share Posted December 6, 2014 Saw Iain Gray coming out a portaloo in Kelvingrove Park during the Mela one year. Looked sheepish enough to indicate he'd dropped off the best part of a Labour Party manifesto in there. Also saw Eric Pickles coming off the plane I was about to get on to fly back up the road and worried the fat ride had fucked the suspension on the undercarriage. Have seen Nicola Sturgeon and Angus Robertson out and about, and was with my maw when she got stopped by former Defence Secretary Des Browne in Kilmarnock town centre when he was canvassing in the run-up to the 1997 General Election. My mum told him to sort out the amount of dug shite in Kay Park, but I think he decided to bomb Iraq instead. The sexiest by far was wee Paddy Harvie at a Green stall on Buchanan Street. I swear his baldy wee heid had a halo round it. Dead ringer for Our Wullie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colkitto Posted December 6, 2014 Share Posted December 6, 2014 She swears like a trooper. My best mate was part writing some of her speeches during the referendum campaign and was also part of her prep team for the televised debates. They were all absolutely shitting a brick that she would let fly with an expletive on live TV Yes, heard she has quite a tongue on her.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NotThePars Posted December 6, 2014 Share Posted December 6, 2014 Served Jim Murphy at the Celtic game the other night. He put a fiver on Celtic to win 5-0 but put it in the wrong box and I neglected to tell him. Russell Brand talks about revolution but how's he fighting the Westminster machine? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SuperCaleyGoBallistic Posted December 6, 2014 Share Posted December 6, 2014 It's always the ones that refer to local issues which are are utterly specific to this one individual, and expect the PM to know what they are talking about, and to tell them it will be sorted. Do you know what it's like to clean up your own mothers piss? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ScottR96 Posted December 7, 2014 Share Posted December 7, 2014 When I was in primary 3 John Mason presented me with the award for best costume at a function in garrowhill primary school... If this counts He's a Clyde season ticket holder so see him quite a bit. Saw Anas Sarwar on the train to Edinburgh about a week before the referendum - he was wearing a 'No Thanks' badge and I a 'Yes' badge. Tense scenes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sunrise Posted December 9, 2014 Share Posted December 9, 2014 I'm off work at the moment but I regularly serve Ken McIntosh in his local store - despite my firm Nationalist leanings (which he knows about) we get on very well and are on first name terms. Jim Murphy pops in sometimes as well - against despite political differences I get on very well with him. He was in the day after the egg-throwing carry-on, and was on the phone a lot - a Better Together figure followed him in afterwards (not a guard, just by convenience). I was quite open with my opinions on Trident to her - he had left the store by then - but it was good-natured chatter... Jim is also notorious for nicking the newspapers after they've been scanned out in another shop (he still pays for them however). He was in for a photo shoot of some kind in the next booth from me in The Over Lee in Clarkston on Friday - asked the barwoman about it, she said he'd been in all day. Round about referendum time a fair few yes (but more noes, its East Ren after all!) badges were going about with a favourite customer coming in with a no badge - after querying it with him he claimed he'd been called Quisling, Tory, traitor etc - to be fair, I think the second was accurate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scary Bear Posted December 18, 2014 Author Share Posted December 18, 2014 Had anyone seen Eric Joyce kicking about the Falkirk area recently? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Bairn Posted December 18, 2014 Share Posted December 18, 2014 Had anyone seen Eric Joyce kicking about the Falkirk area recently? Last time I saw him was not long after the 2010 election. In saying that I don't live there so I'd only see him if I was at the football/visiting relatives/shopping Certainly haven't seen him since his first bar brawl Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dunning1874 Posted December 18, 2014 Share Posted December 18, 2014 I see Goldie around every so often, never spoken to her but she's about Inverclyde a lot. Saw Murphy on the 100 towns tour. He has a shite handshake. Years back when I was a kid my grandfather collapsed in a cafe. As other customers moved to help him, Duncan McNeil sat looking puzzled, asking his minders what was going on in the manner of a confused child. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bullywee Posted December 18, 2014 Share Posted December 18, 2014 When I was a child I pushed Andy Kerr's daughter so hard on a tire swing that it made her violently sick. His wife chased me out of the park. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
QPSAFalkirkFirm Posted December 18, 2014 Share Posted December 18, 2014 Had anyone seen Eric Joyce kicking about the Falkirk area recently? Seems to do most of his kicking about in London. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scary Bear Posted December 19, 2014 Author Share Posted December 19, 2014 I've NEVER seen him in Falkirk or the local area, and I've lived here a long time. Spends his time in London, pissed and assaulting people. Surely there are plenty people up her who need a good slap. He could be the Scottish equivalent of Edward Woodward in the Equaliser. The Labour Party should let him stand for MSP. Holyrood needs some pie-kicking shenanigans to liven it up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
invergowrie arab Posted December 22, 2014 Share Posted December 22, 2014 Was good to see our local homophobe MP Jim McGovern out supporting the city yesterday at the football...... Oh no wait he was in the Celtic end. Tbf I don't grudge him getting to see his team after being made persona non grata on the no1 logged csc bus for his troughing at Westminster and stance on the referendum. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jayjay277 Posted December 23, 2014 Share Posted December 23, 2014 Jim Murphy in Buchanan galleries Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Enigma Posted December 23, 2014 Share Posted December 23, 2014 Spotted Iain Gray getting out his car at Knowes farm shop. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iceblink Posted December 24, 2014 Share Posted December 24, 2014 Walked behind the first minister from Buchanan Galleries to the bottom of Buchanan Street today. Pretty good that we live in a society where such a high profile politician can do some last minute Christmas shopping on her own with no apparent security around her. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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