Did the political and media class suffer a bout of collective amnesia last week in their analysis of the Frank McAveety affair? Well I certainly completely forgot about SNP MP Angus MacNeil's drunken romp with two teenage girls while his heavily pregnant wife was at home. Never mind though, But this perhaps explains why the SNP were a bit quieter than they might have been last week about McAveety's indiscretion, but presumably MSP Sandra White had forgotten about MacNeil as well. Indeed, it was probably Ms White's memory lapse which caused her to describe the recent revalations about Glasgow's black market in taxi licences as "very disturbing", but perhaps the less said about that the better, since clearly that would be an issue of substance and therefore of little interest, thus quite unlike the Frank McAveety affair.
But I've take the liberty of including a photo of the two girls who took part in Angus MacNeil's romp, since they weren't underage and also because they look rather, er, how should I put this, fetching? I wonder if that's politically correct enough, or does it make me a sexist pig?
(Thanks to contributor Alastair, who mentioned the MacNeil affair in a comment on yesterday's post.)
3 comments:
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Angus McNeil was not a parliamentary committee convener, like Frank McAveety.
If he had been he would have resigned.
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Frank McAveety commented on the attractiveness of a girl. Angus McNeil went, as an MP, to give prizes to teenagers, got two of them pissed, and took them to his room.
Indy, you really need something better than "he was not a committee convener".
Anyway, it's gonna be back in the papers.
Indy said:
"Angus McNeil was not a parliamentary committee convener, like Frank McAveety."
Well that's OK then.
Perhaps the difference is of great significance to politicos, but to me it's just nitpicking.
If they're deemed not fit to chair a committee then they should be unfit to be an MP/MSP as well.
And at the very least it's surprising that Angus McNeil hasn't merited a mention in the MSM - despite several mention of him on message boards - at least as a comparison, if not to excuse McAveety.
It would be like an MSP confessing to a drink/drug habit tomorrow and the papers being full of it for a few days, but neither the media nor the politicians mentioning Steven Purcell.
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