Argyll was shamed today with the news that Alan Clayton, an official SNP contact in the Argyll and Bute constituency, had published in Mediawatch, his online newsletter, smears we do not intend to repeat against the 18 year old Glasgow City Council employee, Danus McKinlay, who so tragically died on 5th March.
This was a boy – a boy who is dead; a boy whose family and friends will be in a state of shock at so sudden and irreversible a loss; and a boy at whom a simple glance spoke of his essential innocence, childlikeness, even.
This action is as contemptible as it is incomprehensible in its utter lack of humanity and judgment. It is to the credit of the SNP that it has immediately referred Mr Clayton to the party’s disciplinary committee.
Mr Clayton had also gone on to smear the former Leader of Glasgow City Council, Stephen Purcell, whose health and political career have recently collapsed together. Such behaviour is sickeningly carrion. There can be no pleasure in watching any Icarus fail.
If politics is even to begin the long haul to convince us that there can be decency and integrity at the heart of it, any culture that can grow such fungal efflorescences is in need of bleach.
Shakespeare’s Sonnet XCIV got it right a long time ago:
They that have power to hurt, and will do none,
That do not do the thing they most do show,
Who, moving others, are themselves as stone,
Unmoved, cold, and to temptation slow;
They rightly do inherit heaven’s graces,
And husband nature’s riches from expense;
They are the lords and owners of their faces,
Others, but stewards of their excellence.
The summer’s flower is to the summer sweet,
Though to itself, it only live and die,
But if that flower with base infection meet,
The basest weed outbraves his dignity:
For sweetest things turn sourest by their deeds;
Lilies that fester, smell far worse than weeds.
utterly sickening , will he be expelled from the snp ? all right minded people must hope so
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It should be pointed out that Alan Clayton holds no position with Argyll and Bute SNP and is not an official spokesman for the party and in that respect the various press reports on him are clearly wrong.
I doubt if the party will go as far as expelling a very old member whose judgement has seen much better days.
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Alan Clayton was only asking the questions that puzzle everybody. That said it is not a pretty part of todays politics that these matters seem to be more important than what the actual policies and so on of the parties are. If Alan Clayton holds any sort of position in the SNP he should surely be concentrating on putting out a positive vision which is what the party says it is doing and not dealing in scurrilous gossip.
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I just talked to an SNP worker who said they wished Alan Clayton would just go away, though those weren’t the exact two words used.
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Yes. There are very big questions to be asked about the Labour Party in Glasgow and its links with unsavoury elements and this should be the focus. Alan Clayton’s ill advised speculation has allowed a smoke screen to be pulled over these serious concerns
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David,
You can’t blame the press for reporting Alan Clayton’s comments. If he hadn’t said such hateful things, there would be no story.
Alan
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The cynical hypocrisy of our press is evident in this affair. While in no way condoning the offensive nature of Alan Clayton’s stupid remarks I have to point out that Media Watch is read by comparitively few people yet our press, purporting to be deeply offended on behalf of the dead youth’s family, lost no time in distributing the offensive remarks to an audience of hundreds of thousands.
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