You got it right in 2008, Glasgow voters - now get it right in May 2011

This was my first YouTube video in 2008 - a cry of pain over the lost Labour Party, and a cry of hope for Glasgow East voters to do the right thing - vote SNP.

You did, Glasgow East, overturning a 20,000 Labour majority, voting for John Mason, one of your ain folk.

But you panicked in May 2010, Glasgow East - fear of the Tories made you let Labour in again - the party that wrecked the economy and wrecked your hopes and dreams. They bottled their chance to form a Rainbow Coalition, and thus let the appalling ConLib Coalition into power.

Now Labour says "It wisnae us - big boys did it and ran away ..."

But it was you that ran away, Labour - a contemptible act.Since then the corruption of GCC, the Purcell Affair, the obscene profits of developers in Dalmarnock and the unforgivable persecution of Margaret Jaconelli in her own home.

Don't repeat your 2010 mistake at the critical Holyrood elections in May. VOTE SNP - Glasgow and Scotland's - real, best hope for the future.

Glasgow City Council and Glasgow Press tweeting time

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@NewsnightScot If the interview isn't already in the can, try talking about media press bias and distortion of facts in Scotland, please BBC

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Glasgow newspapers radical circulation decline from May 2007. Did the election of an SNP government and Labour panic influence journalism?

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Sunday Herald circulation May 2007 = 56,024 : Sunday Herald circulation Jan 2011 = 39,831 : Re-vamps won't cut it - try telling the truth

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Daily Record circulation May 2007 = 404,131 : Daily Record circulation Jan 2011 = 290,247 Stop the decline by telling the truth to power.

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Radical thought for Herald, Record and Evening Times - try telling the truth to the people of Scotland, factually and free of party bias.

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May 2007 Herald circulation = 71,740: Jan 2011 Herald circulation = 51,468 Source: National Bureau of Circulation 20,000 readers gone - why?

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#MargaretJaconelli Glasgow East voters - you had a moment of good sense in 2008 when you threw Labour out. Do it again in Holyrood May 2011

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#MargaretJaconelli Voters of Glasgow - you know what Labour did to the UK - now wake up to what they are doing to Glasgow and Scotland ...

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#MargaretJaconelli Glasgow newspapers - why are your circulation figures declining? Something to do with objective reporting standards?

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#MargaretJaconelli Settle equitably, Glasgow City Council, or face a media storm. (Herald, Evening Times & Record excepted, of course)

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#MargaretJaconelli Any Scottish or Glasgow politicians who value their reputations better get involved fast, before the **** hits the fan.

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#MargaretJaconelli If MJ isn't treated fairly, a lot of people, incl. big media, will dig very deep into GCC/Labour/developer links & deals.

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#MargaretJaconelli MJ has now had her meeting with the District Valuer. He is clear where she stands - the ball is now in GCC's hands.

The SNP must act now on the Margaret Jaconelli case

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@jonsnowC4 Jon, an injustice is being done by Glasgow City Council, in the name of the Commonwealth Games, to a grandmother losing her home.

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If the SNP isn't' about justice for the little people of Scotland what is it about? Labour, Glasgow media & GCC don't care but the SNP must.

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SNP and Alex Salmond - show Glasgow that you care about individuals, not just big money developers and Big Sport. Labour doesn't give a damn

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All you SNP politicians, tweeting happily about your cosy Saturday night - any room in your thoughts for a lone woman fighting for her home?

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Where are all the socially-aware Glasgow intelligentsia, highly vocal on big issues, when a real injustice exists over Margaret Jaconelli?

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@Michaels_Dad Thanks. anything you can do - letters, tweets, contacting SNP - will be very welcome. http://gamesmonitor2014.wordpress.com/

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Margaret Jaconelli: a lone grandmother fighting GCC, Herald, Evening Tmes, Glasgow Labour Party. SNP??? moridura.blogspot.com/2011/01/margar… via @moridura,

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@alisonthewliss She's a lone woman under major stress.Why don't you contact her, Alison? moridura.blogspot.com/2011/01/margar… via @moridura

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@alisonthewliss Have you anything to say about the Jaconelli case, Alison - now in the last chance saloon?

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Margaret Jaconelli and Glasgow City Council - last chance saloon to avert an injustice and a tragedy. moridura.blogspot.com/2011/01/margar… via @moridura

Margaret Jaconelli and Glasgow City Council - last chance saloon

This is the text of a letter to the Herald, which they have not published. There may be many reasons, including legal ones for that editorial decision, and it is one they have a right to make.

UNPUBLISHED LETTER TO THE HERALD

Next week (20th January) Margaret Jaconelli's final appeal against Glasgow City Council's compulsory purchase of her home and eviction order to clear the way for the development of the Commonwealth Games site is scheduled to go to a Court hearing. It will be preceded by a meeting with Glasgow City Council on the 18th, presumably to attempt to reach a last minute settlement before the Court hearing

If this decision goes against Margaret, a Scottish grandmother simply trying to get an equitable price for her tenement home, she will be faced with crippling legal costs which will destroy her economically and emotionally.

Her basic position as I understand it is to get a price that will enable her to buy a roughly comparable property in an area of her choice, and to have all legal costs of that purchase met.

Meanwhile, developers have reaped rich rewards from land purchase and re-sale deals with Glasgow Corporation, by a process of negotiation - exactly what Margaret appears to be being denied .

A gross inequity and perhaps a tragedy for an ordinary Glaswegian is in the making here, and it will leave a sad legacy hanging over the Commonwealth Games.

Where are the rich Glasgow firms, the entrepreneurs and the sports personalities who will reap rich benefits from the Games while the interests of the little people are threatened in this way?

Do the Scottish Government and the Labour Party want to enter their Holyrood election campaigns with this injustice hanging over them?

What are the elected representatives of Margaret Jaconelli and the others four claimants doing while this juggernaut of big business and celebrity sport rolls over ordinary, vulnerable people?

Make no mistake, this will be some politician's Crichel Down, indeed the Crichel Down scandal brought down a government minister and almost a government, leading to the Crichel Down rules, now probably outdated half a century on, in this brutal, uncaring, greedy society.

This case should be the subject of mediation, not cold, unfeeling legalistic procedures, with all the aces in the hands of Glasgow City Council and the developers. The amount of money required to settle is minuscule in relation to the huge budgets and profits of the Games.

For God's sake, Glasgow - doing the right thing is the right thing to do!

Unhappy tweeting time - Margaret Jaconelli, Glasgow City Council and the Commonwealth Games

Time is running out - this appeal is scheduled for 20th January. The outcome could destroy Margaret Jaconelli financially and emotionally. If you care about ordinary people, for God's sake do something!

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#MargaretJaconelli Are the Commonweath Games in Glasgow going ahead, while burying the hope and dreams and lives of ordinary Glaswegians?

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#MargaretJaconelli A tragedy for the little people is unfolding while money, celebrity sport and naked greed roll over them, uncaring.

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#MargaretJaconelli Do the Labour Party and SNP want to enter a Holyrood electoral campaign with a brutal injustice on their consciences?

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#MargaretJaconelli Where are the rich sporting personalities who will profit hugely from the Games when ordinary Scots need their help?

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#MargaretJaconelli What in God's name is the SNP doing for these ordinary Glaswegians? Does big money roll over the little people?

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#MargaretJaconelli The profit made by a developer on 1 deal (£1m), courtesy of Glasgow City Council, could have settled with all 5 claimants

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#MargaretJaconelli She may get crippling costs awarded against her by GCC. If this is the price of Commonwealth Games, it is too high

Tonight’s tweet for non-Twitterers

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If you're member of Scottish CND, why vote for the nuclear bombing parties - Labour, Tories, LibDems? Only one party is opposed - the SNP.

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The Greens have two heads in Holyrood. Anything to do with their support for the nuclear bombing parties this week? Get the Geiger out!

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Where is the voice of Celtic Football Club in the Margaret Jaconelli case? The club was founded for the people of Glasgow East - help now!

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Five ordinary Glasgow people could have a Christmas free of worry at last if they are supported by their ain folk, Holyrood and the Law.

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A message to the SNP about Margaret Jaconelli - you've done something to help, you've listened, but this is the big push - do more, please!

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Lord Sanderson - help five ordinary people in Dalmarnock whose lives are being blighted - stand up for ordinary Scots and revive the Tories!

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Iain Gray - lean on your Labour Glasgow councillors about Margaret Jaconelli, and have a word with the Herald - they might listen to you ...

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Perhaps Goldie, Gray and Scott, superhero champions of cheap supermarket booze, the UK, WMDs and nuclear lochs, will help Margaret Jaconelli

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Will Glasgow Labour politicians, fearless champions of the people, ease up on expense-paid trips long enough to help Margaret Jaconelli?

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Will the Commonwealth Games Athlete's Village and GCC/Labour crush the lives of five ordinary Glasgow people, or will the Law bring justice?

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Hopes of this weekend's paper - Express, Sun, Sunday Post - covering Jaconelli case. But the Herald? Do they need GCC/Labour's approval?

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At last the Scottish Press are interested in Margaret Jaconelli - the Express, the Sun, the Sunday Post - but what about the Herald?

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Margaret Jaconelli's legal appeal against Glasgow Council over her compulsory purchase order comes up on 20th December. Justice at last?

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@bcnsco Scots should visit, and marvel at what they were, and what they will be again, once they recover their lost independence. Saor Alba!

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When Scotland is independent, which Party will scamper for a place in the new Holyrood? Why the Tories, of course! And Labour and LibDems ..

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Which influential Tory under Thatcher was - and still is - totally opposed to Scottish devolution, Lord Sanderson? Lord Forsyth of Drumlean.

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Which party before 1999 was implacably opposed to devolution, to a Scottish Parliament? Could it have been the Tories, my Lord Sanderson?

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Of what nation are you a Lord, my Lord Sanderson? Could it be of the United Kingdom? Who ennobled you? The Scottish people? Please remind us

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Sanderson says the electorate 'thinks' the Scottish Tories are anti-Scottish. But they are, my Lord, and are especially anti-ordinary Scots.

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Sanderson says the electorate don't understand what the Scottish Tories stand for. But they do my Lord - that's why they don't vote for them

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