>The former leader of Glasgow City Council has been arrested and charged in connection with fraud.
>Sky News say Frank McAveety was arrested in connection with offences which took place in Glasgow between 2022 and 2024.
>McAveety served as leader of the council between 2015 and 2017 and is a Scottish Labour politician who also previously served as an MSP.
>It is understood the charges relate to electoral fraud from when he ran for a seat on the council in 2022.
>A Police Scotland statement said: “A 62-year-old man has been arrested and charged in connection with fraud offences in the Glasgow area between 2022 and 2024.
>“A report will be submitted to the Procurator Fiscal in due course.”
>Scottish Labour has been contacted for comment.
>More to follow.
T. S. Eliot has a poem about a criminal cat with a similar name, but [Macavity gets away with it because *Macavity’s not there!*](https://poets.org/poem/macavity-mystery-cat)
However popular he is in Glasgow Labour, McAveety’s been less fortunate.
>[McAveety] was forced to apologise for misleading parliament when he turned up late for a ministerial question time claiming to have been unavoidably detained on ministerial business. It was later discovered that he was actually eating pie, beans and roast potatoes in the parliament canteen. The incident was dubbed by some as “porky pie-gate” and is said to have led First Minister Jack McConnell to sack him from his cabinet later that year
>…
>On 16 June 2010 he resigned as Convenor of the Scottish Parliament’s Public Petitions Committee after being overheard making comments about the physical appearance of a female member of the audience during a break in committee proceedings. The comments were broadcast because he had not switched off his microphone. McAveety said: “There’s a very attractive girl in the second row, dark… and dusky. We’ll maybe put a wee word out for her.
I demand murder tents !
So going by the logic that if an SNP politician is arrested that must mean independence is dead and surely no one can support it….does that now mean the union is dead and no one should support it?
Right?
Willie Bain must condemn!
Blue tents when?
The moron could have literally still ran for his seat, by virtue of the fact he worked in Glasgow, but chose to hoodwink his constituents 🤡
This is probably on par with the former first minister being arrested.
From the headline one can assume that Mr. McAveety was a unionist politician.
Labour have always been a bunch of gangsters. Surprised at the polis getting involved though. Usually this would be sorted oot at the lodge.
Bungay McBungerson!!!
Nothing to see here, just Unionist things. Now. Where is that white forensic murder tent to camp outside the former FM’s hoose?! And what about the ferries?! Why won’t somebody **please** mention the ferries.
What a shocker.
Sturgeon must resign ….. oops wait a minute !
So in this thread, Labour’s scandals excuse the SNP’s scandals, and the SNP’s scandals excuse Labour’s scandals. I guess it all nets out to “no scandals,” and in fact, we are really well governed. (When the reality is more like, the entire political class is shit and voting is essentially pointless.)
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>The former leader of Glasgow City Council has been arrested and charged in connection with fraud.
>Sky News say Frank McAveety was arrested in connection with offences which took place in Glasgow between 2022 and 2024.
>McAveety served as leader of the council between 2015 and 2017 and is a Scottish Labour politician who also previously served as an MSP.
>It is understood the charges relate to electoral fraud from when he ran for a seat on the council in 2022.
>A Police Scotland statement said: “A 62-year-old man has been arrested and charged in connection with fraud offences in the Glasgow area between 2022 and 2024.
>“A report will be submitted to the Procurator Fiscal in due course.”
>Scottish Labour has been contacted for comment.
>More to follow.
T. S. Eliot has a poem about a criminal cat with a similar name, but [Macavity gets away with it because *Macavity’s not there!*](https://poets.org/poem/macavity-mystery-cat)
However popular he is in Glasgow Labour, McAveety’s been less fortunate.
>[McAveety] was forced to apologise for misleading parliament when he turned up late for a ministerial question time claiming to have been unavoidably detained on ministerial business. It was later discovered that he was actually eating pie, beans and roast potatoes in the parliament canteen. The incident was dubbed by some as “porky pie-gate” and is said to have led First Minister Jack McConnell to sack him from his cabinet later that year
>…
>On 16 June 2010 he resigned as Convenor of the Scottish Parliament’s Public Petitions Committee after being overheard making comments about the physical appearance of a female member of the audience during a break in committee proceedings. The comments were broadcast because he had not switched off his microphone. McAveety said: “There’s a very attractive girl in the second row, dark… and dusky. We’ll maybe put a wee word out for her.
I demand murder tents !
So going by the logic that if an SNP politician is arrested that must mean independence is dead and surely no one can support it….does that now mean the union is dead and no one should support it?
Right?
Willie Bain must condemn!
Blue tents when?
The moron could have literally still ran for his seat, by virtue of the fact he worked in Glasgow, but chose to hoodwink his constituents 🤡
This is probably on par with the former first minister being arrested.
From the headline one can assume that Mr. McAveety was a unionist politician.
Labour have always been a bunch of gangsters. Surprised at the polis getting involved though. Usually this would be sorted oot at the lodge.
Bungay McBungerson!!!
Nothing to see here, just Unionist things. Now. Where is that white forensic murder tent to camp outside the former FM’s hoose?! And what about the ferries?! Why won’t somebody **please** mention the ferries.
What a shocker.
Sturgeon must resign ….. oops wait a minute !
So in this thread, Labour’s scandals excuse the SNP’s scandals, and the SNP’s scandals excuse Labour’s scandals. I guess it all nets out to “no scandals,” and in fact, we are really well governed. (When the reality is more like, the entire political class is shit and voting is essentially pointless.)
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