Scotland is changing. It's time Scotland's forgotten communities led that change.
Tuesday 29 April 2014
#Bingate and the NO Campaign: A reflection
Yesterday I had a bizarre experience. A Daily Mail journalist interviewed me at an
action I had helped to organise, about something that didn't happen. Better Together Director Rob Shorthouse had, unbeknownst
to me, summoned the Daily Mail, because there were people outside in Blythswood
Square, and there were a crowd of them.Monday 28 April 2014
MEDIA RELEASE (for immediate release): CITIZENS Rally To Welcome Police Scotland Criminal Investigation Into Glasgow City Council Corruption
MEDIA RELEASE (for immediate release): CITIZENS Rally To Welcome Police Scotland Criminal Investigation Into Glasgow City Council Corruption
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CONTACTS
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MOBILE: 07904553200
EMAIL: nick.durie@googlemail.com
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NOTES TO THE EDITOR
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* The 100 Promises Campaign was formed to hold the council to account from a number of community groups and community leaders. It takes its name from Labour's 'Our 100 Promises: 100 Things We Will Do' manifesto document.
* In the course of holding The Council to account the campaign felt it had to say something about escalating corruption at the City Council which was actively derailing many of the promises community leaders were most concerned to see enacted.
* Following the publication of a report into the Ronnie Saez half a million pound payoff by the charities regulator which found "misconduct" by officials and councillors, and following the insider trading scandal at the Polmadie Recycling Plant (now a privatised incinerator), the 100 Promises Campaign decided to hold a meeting on misconduct by officials. The results of this public meeting led to the campaign researching and publishing a dossier into corruption at The Council.
* This dossier has prompted Police Scotland to investigate a number of potential criminal allegations which the campaign has made the Crown Office and other civic authorities aware of. Last year a printed copy of the dossier was hand delivered to the Crown Office, the Procurator Fiscal, every GCC Councillor, the Archdiocese, Central Mosque, Unison Glasgow HQ, Unite HQ, the Presbytery of Glasgow, and the Free Kirk, following the publication of the dossier online.
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On Monday evening community campaigners and local residents will gather together at Blythswood Square, before visiting Pitt Street Police Station to send a note of thanks and welcome to Police Scotland for launching an anti-corruption investigation into Glasgow City Council.
"We have been calling on the authorities to investigate Glasgow City Council, ever since the planned rollout of fuel poverty fighting combined heat and power was derailed by the corrupt payoff to ex council boss Robert Booth." Says Nick Durie, Community Organiser on the 100 Promises Campaign.
In what is expected to be a well-attended event campaigners, will note how far the campaign has come to have achieved official recognition of corruption problems at the troubled City Council.
"When we held our press conference at the dossier launch, there was some cynicism about whether we could get this corruption taken seriously in official channels. Given how long this problem has been going on for, it's easy for some people to lose heart. What we take from this as a campaign however is that organised people, acting together to a common plan of action can deliver social change. We trust that Police Scotland will leave no stone unturned in their corruption investigation, because by God there is a lot of dirt hidden there. We believe we have just begun to scratch the surface. It is time for a new Scotland where these acts of malfeasance are consigned to history."
Citizens will gather from 6:15 PM at Blythswood Square. Pictures will be available for media on request.
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NOTES TO THE EDITOR
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* The 100 Promises Campaign was formed to hold the council to account from a number of community groups and community leaders. It takes its name from Labour's 'Our 100 Promises: 100 Things We Will Do' manifesto document.
* In the course of holding The Council to account the campaign felt it had to say something about escalating corruption at the City Council which was actively derailing many of the promises community leaders were most concerned to see enacted.
* Following the publication of a report into the Ronnie Saez half a million pound payoff by the charities regulator which found "misconduct" by officials and councillors, and following the insider trading scandal at the Polmadie Recycling Plant (now a privatised incinerator), the 100 Promises Campaign decided to hold a meeting on misconduct by officials. The results of this public meeting led to the campaign researching and publishing a dossier into corruption at The Council.
* This dossier has prompted Police Scotland to investigate a number of potential criminal allegations which the campaign has made the Crown Office and other civic authorities aware of. Last year a printed copy of the dossier was hand delivered to the Crown Office, the Procurator Fiscal, every GCC Councillor, the Archdiocese, Central Mosque, Unison Glasgow HQ, Unite HQ, the Presbytery of Glasgow, and the Free Kirk, following the publication of the dossier online.
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CONTACTS
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MOBILE: 07904553200
EMAIL: nick.durie@googlemail.com
Friday 18 April 2014
Police Scotland are investigating Glasgow City Council corruption - we welcome this!
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| Meet Blythswood Square, 6:15pm, Monday 28th April |
Following the publication of our community compiled dossier on criminality and malpractice at Glasgow City Council, Police Scotland have begun an investigation into Glasgow City Council corruption. This is long overdue, but it shows that the culture of policing in Scotland, no longer controlled by Labour dominated Councils, is one that is more responsive to the public, and it also shows that the organisation is cracking down on crime, even when that crime comes from powerful vested interests in Glasgow City Council.
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| Newspaper coverage of the publication of the community compiled dossier into corruption at Glasgow City Council |
We wish to celebrate the leadership of Police Scotland in taking our dossier on board. Please come and show that you welcome this investigation!
Travel expenses* can be met for participants, but above all we want to demonstrate that as citizens of Glasgow we are proud to have a police force that, no longer fettered by GCC control, now no longer considers certain Glasgow City Council figures above the law. What a breath of fresh air! We will pop in to Pitt St around the corner and note that we welcome their investigation and show our appreciation for their dedication in this.
[*of up to £20. Just let us know! email bowden.andy@gmail.com]
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