Glasgow - Claimants Have Their Say



Some regular readers respond to the barmy conspiracy theory that 'many of the marchers' on Glasgow's historic March and rally for Equal Pay were 'bussed up' from England.


It's an insult to those thousands of workers who lost 2 days pay!

K

Well said K

E

I know lots of SNP and independence supporters who either took part in the strike or wholeheartedly supported it, myself included.The anger which led to the strike was not opposition to any political party but against the inaction of the council officers who are supposedly negotiating a settlement.

R


The SNP supporter rants on twitter are deeply disturbing, they appear to be willing to excuse any poltical faux pas by their party and justify it by demonising others. I think in all the twitter spats i seen only one SNP supporter was saying the SNP got this wrong. The rest were pretty much anti union anti labour party rhetoric and the tone of it was disturningly ideological. I fervently believe in independence but i'm not sure i'd want the SNP ruling an independent Scotland with this mindset.

R

I truly can't see anyone taking that twitter comment seriously. Most of what I've seen is the 'whitabootery' Caroline Leckie talks about: based on past truths but omitting the current facts.

M

It's really awful how some people are reacting. I give up trying to give them the correct information. I have been accused of having suspicious activity, asked who I really am and a political pawn from SNP supporters.

T

   

'Cybernuts', Conspiracies and Equal Pay (29/10/18)



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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