The Politicians
As regular readers will be aware, I wrote to a number of politicians about this and got one reply back.
At the time of writing, I’ve still only had one reply, and that reply wasn’t great to say the least.
I wrote about this the other day; it was a horrendous response which tried to drag Celtic into the issue, and fell back on the old “two heads of the same coin” argument.
Partial credit is due, I suppose, for his being the only person who bothered to respond, but the whole thing was a pathetic exercise in deflection along with the old standbys of defending the Offensive Behaviour at Football Act and threatening something worth.
Our political class is absolutely gutless on this kind of thing.
There aren’t a handful of them who are willing to stand up and be counted on it, and even those who are didn’t raise their voices even to a whisper this week when we were looking to them.
This is an election cycle … some will say it was too much to expect one of them to put their heads about the parapet at a time like this, but to me that just echoes the pathetic response I got where the writer said he wouldn’t “pick sides.”
Not a single one of them has shown moral courage over this matter.