[ELECTRON] OPPOSE TUITION FEES Thursday 3.00PM at the Royal Concert Hall steps on Buchanan Street.

[Variant]

"None of the above points to any 'conspiracy' of course, just politics as usual: the same old revolving doors network of legalised looting avid viewers of The Wire will have become accustomed to. No laws, moral or otherwise have been broken - no matter how much money has been channelled into the Labour Party via publicly owned companies, or how many members, relatives and friends are employed in senior positions in such companies. As for multi-million pound contracts and shady land deals being awarded to Party donors, well, that just shows that an entrepreneurial spirit is rewarded in an age of entrepreneurialism. What is perhaps remarkable about Glasgow's economic policies and system of political patronage is that the disjuncture between the myth of market provision and 'urban renaissance', and the reality of a city with 40 per cent below the poverty line, hasn't been more consistently and effectively exposed..."

Full article here:
http://www.scottishleftreview.org/li/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=318&Itemid=1




On 23 Nov 2010, at 14:48, Clive Mitchell wrote:

> Ah, that'll be another knock on effect of Glasgow council being rotten
> to the core with corruption and fraud then.
> 
> On 23 November 2010 13:49, Variant <variantmag at btinternet.com> wrote:
>> This would be the same George Square that's been 'mortgaged' to Barclays
>> Bank, please see:
> 
> 
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> Clive Mitchell
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