'Cybernuts', Conspiracies and Equal Pay



A kind reader sent me this Tweet which was posted on the day of Glasgow's historic strike by 8,000 low paid workers in support of their fight for equal pay with Glasgow City Council.

ali @alibali50 - Oct 23

Apparently many of the marchers have been bussed up from England while the women actually affected are sitting at home being exploited by their aggressors. We all know the ££ situation SNP found Glasgow CC in - this behaviour & cost may delay the settlement.

Now I've spent lots of time on Twitter in the past week patiently explaining that the strike and the wider equal pay campaign has nothing to do with party politics.

But some 'Cybernuts' simply refuse to believe anything other than their own ridiculous conspiracy theories and what a doozy this one is - that many Glasgow equal pay marchers were actually impostors who were bussed up from England to discredit the SNP!

What an insult to the thousands of women and men who went on strike last week and if you ask me, this kind of barmy comment does the SNP a great deal of harm.


   

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