Steven Purcell, Organised Crime and the Fatal Blow

Purcell has now apparently fled the country; to where? One can only guess. They say it's Australia, but our bet is that right now he is sitting in the dark corner of a Costa Del Sol cocktail bar, sharing a bad sangria with his old pal, Tenerife Tony.

Steven Purcell could certainly blend in amongst the red faced British tourists on the Spanish coast, but a overweight, teary eyed, greetin faced Scotsman wandering around Bondi Beach is going to be noticed, and, hopefully extradited.

Purcell has left an almighty mess in his wake. A young protege, Danus McKinley, was apparently being groomed by Purcell to become a councillor, collapsed and died, supposedly heart stricken over the downfall of his mentor.

It has now emerged that Purcell's 'chemical dependency' was cocaine, which could explain his erratic behaviour before he jumped ship.

And most worryingly, he was interviewed a number of times by the Scottish Crime and Drug Enforcement Agency. What most Glaswegians know, but don't really seem to bothered about, is that most things in Glasgow are run by organised criminals. Of course there's the drugs, weapons smuggling and prostitution; but also nightclubs, taxi's and chippy's.

That Purcell could rise to his position, stay in it for five years whilst bringing the Commonwealth Games to the city and NOT having any contacts with the criminal underworld is as likely as him coming back to clear his name. What we need to know is not were there contacts between Purcell and the Mafia, but what were the extend of those contacts, what did they involve, and how much of a blind eye, or a complicit hand, does the City Council have in organised crime?

Remember Kenny MacAskill's big kick against organised crime a while back? It was the one that fizzled out and fell on deaf ears over at Glasgow City Chambers.

What emerges from this unfolding scandal is not a bad willed, coked up megalomaniac, but a poor soul, being used as a mere pawn in the dark agendas of the criminal underworld that really controls Glasgow.

Piss Poor and Damn Right Dangerous...

 

Mark McDougall (26) and Kerry Robertson (18)

You may remember the story reported by a variety of media sources in 2009 about a Council in Scotland who smashed a couples wedding hopes, claiming that the bride was 'not intelligent enough to get married'.  Kerry Robertson originally of Dunfermline, who lives with minor learning disabilities, was prevented from marrying her boyfriend Mark, as the know-it-all civil servants feared she didn't know what she was doing.

Fife Council then decided to make an arse of themselves by telling the media that they had not decided what to do about the baby that Kerry was carrying. This sparked a media furore (BabyChums, The Mirror, GMTV, Daily Telegraph, BBC, FOX News USA, All Right)

Reading the heartbreaking story of Kerry and Mark (and Baby Ben) certainly gets our blood boiling. We hear of Councils making a tit of themselves daily, officers (paid by you and me) making a fool of themselves, yet... never have we heard of an army of arseholes who are employed as social workers and child protection officers within Fife Council, effectivly driving a family from their home and THEIR HOME COUNTRY!

Baby Ben graced the lives of  Kerry and Mark on 15th January 2010 and weighed in at 7 lbs 3 oz. What was sure to be the happiest and serene day of his parents lives was spoiled by Irish Social Workers acting on the instructions of halfwits at Fife Council. The Social Workers effectively kidnapped Baby Ben and ruined what should have been the most spectacular few weeks of any couples life. 

All excited at the prospect of bringing a bundle of joy into the world, Kerry was offered some words of 'encouragement' at the hands of a Fife Social Worker, who suggested that she may be better served to have a termination. Perhaps the Social Worker won her degree in a lucky bag, or maybe she is just a cold-hearted and callous excuse for a human being? god knows, all we do know is that a cold heart will most certainly win you a promotion and a job for life in Fife Council's Social Work Department.

A blog started by the proud father, lists some really horrific episodes at tells of the abuse suffered at the hands of Fife's Social Work Department. Fife Council seems to be full of pathetic, self obsessed individuals who are only interested in bettering their career prospects and victimising young families. It is all about figures, money and the ratio of success; if they pick an easy target they will have more of a chance of coming out victorious. 

 On his blog, Mark recalls one incident where a senior social worker thrust a door into Kerry's stomach while she was carrying Baby Ben. Barbara Barnes threw open a door which slammed into heavily pregnant Kerry's tummy, knocking two hot cups of coffee flying all over her.  When pressed, sickening Barnes barked "I didn't touch the door, It swung open by itself". Read more about this here.

Social Services are tasked with protecting children and offering support to families, a job which is very difficult and no doubt takes its toll... however, that's no excuse for arseholes like Barbara Barnes to terrorise a young family. 

Mark has prepared a roll-call of the arseholes at Fife Council who stopped his wedding and abused him and his girlfriend during her pregancy:

•    Amanda Jane Ritchie (Mandy) - SSSC Reg No: 1094568
 
•    Tamara Denise Chalmers Greenhalgh (a student social worker) SSSC Reg. No: 2028053

•    Lana Harkness (Arc Housing)

•    Barbara Fleming Barnes – SSSC Reg. No: 1096273

•    David Deacon – SSSC Reg. No: 1094131

•    Charles Gerard Gracie – SSSC Reg. No:  1002887

Kerry and Mark have started a new life in Ireland after being hounded out of their home by the evil bastards within Fife Council's Social Work Department. 

Read all about Mark and Kerry's ordeal on their blog - http://fifesocialservice.wordpress.com 

The service Mark and Kerry has received has been piss poor and highlights not just the wankers at Fife Council's Social Work, but shows the culture of bullying and intimidation which oozes from many of Scotland's Social Work Departments.

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Update: "Chemically dependant" Steven Purcell quits as Glasgow City Councillor

Steven Purcell, after resigning as Glasgow City Council leader, has now severed all ties to the local authority and has quit as a councillor for Drumchapel and Anniesland.

"Chemically dependant" Purcell swaps top Glasgow job for rehab

The rate payers of the Glasgow Corporation will be forgiven for wondering what on earth their elected, well furnished, local government members are up to behind the Council's closed doors, doors of course which more often than not shut out us, their bosses.

Steven Purcell, the camp-as-Christmas leader of Glasgow City Council, who ruled the city with a soft skin hand in a mauve glove, resigned over the weekend, citing "stress and exhaustion." What could have been the cause? He dumped his wife and came out as gay back in 2006, so it couldn't have been that. Although 50% of gay men in Glasgow experience mental health problems at some point, caused by the total lack of services for gay people in Scotland's largest city. Bear in mind that Purcell was one of those Councillors who happily let the so called Castro, an unincorporated, unsubstantiated front for scary Socialist turned Solidarity turned Labour Councillor Ruth Black, take over the running of the still closed Glasgow LGBT Centre. Never mind of course that the Centre was plagued by allegations of mismanagement and corruption, not that the esteemed Councillors minded that many of those implicated in that scandal were behind this "Castro" bid.

There was the scandal over the otherwise incredibly efficient transport body, known the world over for it's helpful staff and friendly customers, Strathclyde Partnership for Transport (SPT). Ron Culley (pictured), who resigned as the big wig at SPT in February over a £100,000 expenses scandal, has been described as the gay, now ex Glasgow leaders' "mentor". 

British politics is knee-deep in euphamisms. Charles Kennedy, the former Lib Dem leader was described as being "tired and emotional," which we now know was shorthand for the fact that he was a raging alcoholic. Purcell resigned citing "stress and exhaustion." And what brought that on? The resignation of one's closest "mentor"?

But to add another twist in the sordid tale, Purcell was admitted to a drug rehab centre, far away from the prying media in the Scottish Borders. The Scotsman reports that the phrase "chemical dependency" was proposed to explain his condition. And what might explain why he allegedly escaped from the rehab clinic? Celebrities and politicians checking into rehab is as regular as them having extra-marital affairs, (see Woods, Tiger and Oaten, Mark), but to then escape and have the police searching for you? The police said:

"A 37-year-old man was reported missing in the Borders area on Sunday, February 28, 2010. While a search was being organised, the man returned."

So what was he doing, popping back into the office to make sure "all his papers were in order" and that "all personal files and effects were stored or removed?" We can only imagine.

In fact we may all have to use our imaginations over this one. Steven Purcell, despite suffering from "stress and exhaustion," he was well enough to hire a crack PR team, who threatened to go to the Press Complaints Commission over the level of media interest. The media interest is hardly on the scale of the Prince Charles Gay Sex Scandal, but all this talk of chemical dependency fuelled relations with a close mentor who was swindling a hundred grand from SPT has got us turned on, turned on to finding out the circumstances of just what it was that brought the grand old Steven Purcell to his knees.

The Tower Block of Commons and the Arsehole Politicians

Channel 4's Tower Block of Commons has shown Austin Mitchell MP as nothing short of an arsehole! The programme has shown up some Members of Parliament as nothing short of moaning, out of touch and pathetic examples of human beings.

The programme started OK until Austin Mitchell showed himself as an idiot, refusing to go along with the rules by insisting that his wife come with him and that they be allowed to be provided with their own home on the council estate, instead of living with a family. In episode two, Austin showed himself as an even bigger wanker by refusing to live under the £5 budget that people on Jobseekers Allowance have to.

Rent boy loving Liberal Democrat Mark Oaten continually moans about his lifestyle and how living with council tenants is totally different to his normal life. If he spent more of his time considering what was important to the public, rather than rolling about the sack with rentboys, I am confident that Mark would really begin to appreciate what real people have to go through!

To add insult to injury, sour-faced Nadine Dorries MP (a Tory, who else?) shows herself up and a manipulative bitch of a women who has no understanding of how real people live. She needs to take the broom out from up her arse and take an interest in how the public of Britain live!

If you get the chance, watch it here - http://www.channel4.com/programmes/tower-block-of-commons/4od#3030989

The so-called 'honourable' Members of Parliament are pathetic, egotistical and all together nauseating examples of human beings. Surprisingly, the only decent one was Tim Loughton MP.

Would ya?

That is a gay Tory called Matthew Sephton who thinks he can top Hazel Blears in the general election. The comments from this PinkNews story on it are pretty funny.