David Maddox: The not so secret diary of John Mason
Having spent most of his summer last year campaigning in and then winning the Glasgow East by-election for the SNP you would have thought that John Mason (pictured) would relish the chance to have a proper holiday this year.It is not as if the man who famously refuses to have a television in his house would want to sit back with his feet up at home and he is known to enjoy a spot of hiking, which in a way is what he did.
The Steamie can now reveal how he spent his summer hols, courtesy of his report to Garrowhill Community Council on 2 September where, like a boxer, he refers to himself in the third person:
"John wanted to do something practical during the recess. He gets annoyed at the amount of litter, dog fouling, fly posting etc. So he decided to remove some of the fly posting: 130 taken down so far!"
I gather that residents in his neighbouring constituency - Glasgow North East - are quite keen on his fly poster taking down services due to the amount of pesky posting by his own and other political parties for the forthcoming by-election.
Labels: David Maddox, Glasgow East., Glasgow North East, John Mason, summer recess
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09:12
7 Comments:
Sadly not - Glasgow City Council has banned election postering!
Aye, David, old fruit, could you ask him if he can do anything about about the 'fly posters' on the Scotsman's sites who skulk and sneer under different monikers? No sooner are they moderated then they spring to life under another name.
Thanks for the update BellegroveBelle, when I popped over during the recess there were a few posters around.
Brownlie, old chum, the only way to moderate people out altogether is to simply stop taking comments and, unlike the Herald a while ago, we are not willing to do that except on specific occasions.
I think you know my opinion on them.
People who talk about themselves in the third person are usually to be avoided, but Ithink it is actually less common than it was, particularly among minor football managers, where ridicule seems to have killed it off.
But if Mr Mason is indeed spending his spare time taking down posters, then good luck to him. If he survives the next election he'll be on his way to national treasure status!
Oops - as BB says in a rare show of unity Labour and the SNP ganged up recently at Glasgow City Council to ban election posters.
Never again will any poor activist have to climb a lampost to put up a bit of correx.
If there are still posters around in NE Glasgow they must be from 2007 - which, Bellgrove Belle, kind of illustrates why the Council were right in their decision!
I ate to say it (not) but Edinburgh could take a good look at the ''Clean Glasgow'' campaign.
It has a sense of humour too - flyposters who advertise gigs have ''cancelled'' stickers posted all over them before they are removed.
Quite a notable deterrent.
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