Was Mason vocal when we were under the microscope ?
That's a good question.
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SNP MSP John Mason, who made an outlandish effort to compare Rangers EBT tax arrangements with Celtic’s child abuse and decades-long cover up. It’s outrageously offensive from the politician who claimed the IRA were freedom fighters. His fellow SNP MSP James Dornan has put his foot in his mouth so often about this scandal since the successful prosecution of Jim Torbett it was inevitable that he couldn’t help once again showing a real lack of class and intelligence.
Not content with previously calling anyone bigots who have been campaigning for justice on this issue (including the family of one of the victims), he publicly contacted journalist Mark Daly with a request to follow him in order to be able to DM him (why the secrecy Jim?), before admitting he himself knew of rumours when his own son played for Celtic Boys Club. While he let the cat out of the bag that the boys club were absolutely the feeder club for the football club and that boys who played for the club “played for Celtic”, he also inadvertently admitted that he, like various others in the know, did absolutely nothing about it.
Then, to add insult to injury, he feigned interest in the victims by writing to Peter Lawwell to ask that Celtic address the issue, forget the “separate entity” narrative and set up a fund to pay the victims.
He is still parroting this line, even though his own lad played for the boys club, and can count himself lucky to have come through without being targeted? It is ridiculous that decades after this, Dornan has just sprung in to "action".
This effort in driving for compensation is damage limitation and is of course Celtic’s ideal scenario given the circumstances, as it’s the quickest way of making the issue go away, with the least amount of fuss, no legal action and the least amount of enablers made accountable for their actions.
Meanwhile Scottish Justice minister Humza Yousaf has completely ignored the Gray family despite numerous requests from them to meet and to push forward a fair and independent enquiry in to the Paedophile ring at Celtic.
Meanwhile, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon’s response to the Gray family’s requests has been to block them on Twitter.
Meanwhile on Twitter the media, we have disgraced former journalist & Paedo defender Graham Spiers reverting to type, and indulging in a quite disgusting piece of whataboutery by accusing Rangers fans of being “exercised and excited” about the Celtic Boys Club scandal. It’s not the first time Spiers has got it spectacularly wrong, but this is most definitely another howler on several levels.
Rangers fans, and decent humans that support many football clubs are angered and disgusted not just at the conduct of the abusers themselves, but the Kelly/White dynasty and their various club officials who engaged in a cover up, or re-employed people like Torbett and Cairney. Decent people are angered that the current regime has not taken ownership of this issue in a sensitive and appropriate manner.
We are angered that the Scottish Government has treated the victims with a disrespect that is both shocking and disgusting.
While there are the odd journalists doing the right thing and calling out the current Celtic board for their efforts to engineer a low key payout of victims, there are those like Neil Cameron sharing Dornan’s approach. Cameron, who has the unique ability to irritate both sides of Glasgow’s divide, is said by many to be Peter Lawwell’s bitch in the press.
I’ve wondered for some time why Lawwell wouldn’t throw the old Kelly/White regime under the bus on the Celtic Boys club scandal, then I remember he had a spell at the club in the early 90’s as a Finance Executive under their regime. What happened in this spell that is stopping him properly addressing this issue?
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