Eddie Barnes - They're now Nicola's games
Steven Purcell now having departed the scene, who is now going to be the public face of Glasgow's Commonwealth games? Step forward Deputy First Minister Nicola Sturgeon.
The Health Secretary pops up in the papers this morning at the promo shot for the Games' new logo (it consists of some circles and a letter 'G', and cost £95,000. Well done!) Why, you might well ask, did the Health Secretary feel it necessary to attend a photo call for a sporting event? Have you see her English counterpart Andy Burnham on the running track at London's Olympic stadium, likewise trying to associate himself with the UK's 2012 fun and games?
No. But then Andy Burnham isn't an MP for the city in which the Olympics is taking place. And nor is Mr Burnham planning on running the country when the games take place. The ambitious Miss Sturgeon, however, has an eye on lots of things. Mr Purcell had, up until last week, ensured that the Games were his own personal baby, warning that there was no way he was going to allow the SNP Government to take the credit for his show. But with Mr Purcell out of the road, and Alex Salmond clearly not all that interested in all that flinging of sticks and running about, Miss Sturgeon has wasted no time in jumping in.
Watch out for expensively produced circles and the letter 'G' on Miss Sturgeon's lapel next time she is seen in public.
The Health Secretary pops up in the papers this morning at the promo shot for the Games' new logo (it consists of some circles and a letter 'G', and cost £95,000. Well done!) Why, you might well ask, did the Health Secretary feel it necessary to attend a photo call for a sporting event? Have you see her English counterpart Andy Burnham on the running track at London's Olympic stadium, likewise trying to associate himself with the UK's 2012 fun and games?
No. But then Andy Burnham isn't an MP for the city in which the Olympics is taking place. And nor is Mr Burnham planning on running the country when the games take place. The ambitious Miss Sturgeon, however, has an eye on lots of things. Mr Purcell had, up until last week, ensured that the Games were his own personal baby, warning that there was no way he was going to allow the SNP Government to take the credit for his show. But with Mr Purcell out of the road, and Alex Salmond clearly not all that interested in all that flinging of sticks and running about, Miss Sturgeon has wasted no time in jumping in.
Watch out for expensively produced circles and the letter 'G' on Miss Sturgeon's lapel next time she is seen in public.
Labels: Commonwealth games, Eddie Barnes, Nicola Sturgeon.
posted by Administrator at
14:04
3 Comments:
To be fair to Nicola I don't think ''brand Purcell'' is quite what we want associated with the Commonwealth Games now is it. Running should be a track event, and the only ''heavies'' around should be throwing large objects in a field.
I think a wee change of image would be timeous.
These are the type of negative, divisive comments that are at the heart of Scotland's political problems. They fuel the partisan behaviour seen in Holyrood and Westminster every week, and do nothing to improve our lot. Is it no wonder the people get turned off by all this point-scoring nonsense and choose not to vote.
Eddie, you make snideness sound almost respectable.
What a pathetic article. Come back, David! No word on who picked the logo and do you consider that the launch should have been ignored by the Scottish Government? It would have given Gray an even more silly question to ask at Holyrood
Post a Comment
<< Home