The Bisto websites still persist in the fantasy that there is a 'witch-hunt' against them in the Scottish media. They provide no evidence of this, of course, mainly because there is none. If anything, the media seems to support, implicitly, the agenda the Bisto Kids have been pushing for ages. The anti-Green Brigade rhetoric, for example, in evidence over the past week or so, seems to be part of a campaign to vilify the Celtic support. Even Tam Cowan gets in on the act, implying that Celtic fans are well-known for wrecking stadiums etc. This is all grist to the Bisto mill. There is also the idea that Celtic's gubbing by Barcelona shows a fatal flaw in Scottish football. Our Fourth Estate seems to go along with the idea that this is down to 'lack of competitiveness' in the SPL, a favourite theme of the Bisto Kids. Where, then, is the 'witch-hunt' against Bisto FC?
Our media have fallen over themselves to swallow the 'same team' lie, Bisto FC trouncing teams of part-timers is hailed as 'record-breaking' and they all keep banging on about the return of the 'Old Firm' derby. Where is the negativity the Bisto Kids keep moaning about? Certainly, there are constant reports about the Bisto War for control of the gravy train, but would they rather go back to the Jabba days of 'All is well, all is well, all is well' being repeated over and over? Then again, reading some of their blinkered comments, maybe they would!
An example of this blinkered approach appeared on McMurdo's blog a couple of days ago. A regular poster pointed out that the Co-Op bank, to whom they all think Celtic is in hock, is now mostly owned by hedge funds. Apparently, 'hedge funds' are scary things, not interested in football, only payouts for shareholders. So what they hell does he think Laxey Partners is? What's more scary: a hedge fund on the board of a football team's bank or on the board of the actual football team? I know which one I would prefer!
Speaking of The Laxative and his hedge fund, Auld Pishy makes them the subject of his latest blog. He cannot seem to get his head round the fact that The Laxative has changed his mind and is now voting for the current Bisto Board. 'What's in it for him?' whines Pishy. Like the rest of them, he needs it spelled out: HEDGE FUNDS DO NOT CARE WHO IS RUNNING THE COMPANY; ALL THEY WANT TO DO IS BLEED IT DRY! For God's sake, how hard is that to understand? Hedge-fund managers don't want trouble in a boardroom; they want to be the ones causing it. When it looked like the Requisitioners were the ones to back, The Laxative was all for them. Now that they don't have a hope in hell he's deserting them. He wants a settled boardroom that he can take for a ride. And they think Celtic has problems!
These perceived problems at Celtic Park are gettting them more and more excited. They keep mentioning them on phone-ins and on newspaper websites, not to mention the Bisto sites themselves. Glasgow City Council has given them short shrift, while their frequent letters and e-mails to MPs and MEPs seem to be getting them nowhere. Now they have decided to preach to the converted and have taken their complaints to Stormont, where a certain section has greeted them with open arms. Granted, the guy that is the ringmaster in all this lives in Northern Ireland but, even so, it's a sign of desperation. Apparently one of the Stormont bigots will be bringing the case to Westminster in January. Of course, the Bisto Kids expect all Celtic supporters to be quaking in their boots; but should they be?
The band of bigots, like the one that recently stood up in the House of Commons to complain about the Bobby Sands banner, that will be presenting the case are seen as nothing more than a joke by most serious politicians. This group constantly promote the teaching of Creationism in schools (Jesus on a dinosaur and the like), while one of their number said that Hurricane Katrina was a punishment from God for the USA tolerating homosexuals in its midst! It shows how desperate the Bisto Kids are when these are the only people they can get to take their accusations seriously. Expect one of the dinosaur rustlers to be speaking to a near-empty chamber in January, while those that are present laugh themselves silly.
Meanwhile, the Daily Record has the story of the Sectarianism in Scotland investigation, which has handed its report over to the Scottish Government. The report reaches the staggering conclusion that Catholic schools are not to blame for sectarian hatred. My God! Who'd-a-thunk-it? Surprisingly, the DR allows comments on this story, which brings all the bigots crawling out from under their stones. Of course, these bigots blame everything on Catholic schools, while extolling the virtues of the Orange Order, who march every year to commemorate 'Religious Freedom' for all. Talk about re-writing history!
James II wasn't infringing anybody's religious freedom; in fact, it was sheer bigotry that drove him from the throne. His wife gave birth to a son and, rather than have a Catholic dynasty, William of Orange was invited to invade and seize the throne. That was all there was to it. The fact that the Pope backed Orange was to do with the Vatican's neverending feud with the kings of France, who backed the Jacobite cause. The ensuing war, which is laughably called the 'Bloodless Revolution,' had nothing whatsoever to do with religious freedom.
Far from ensuring religious freedoms, the triumph of William of Orange led to Catholics being banned from voting in elections. Once the Presbyterians had done their bit in guarding 'Old Derry's Walls,' moreover, they were subjected to so much persecution from the established church that many of them fled to America. Catholics were unable to vote until the Catholic Emancipation Act of 1829 was passed, under the auspices of the Duke of Wellington and Robert Peel. It is worth noting that the Orange Order actively opposed this Act, as they boast themselves on their official website. They also boast of opposing the 1832 Reform Act, which extended the vote to the urban middle classes. So exactly what 'freedoms' are they marching to celebrate? Perhaps if one of them reads this they might elucidate for us all!
The report to the Scottish Government speaks of sectarian hatred between Catholics and Protestants. This is a lie. There is no sectarian hatred at all between Catholics and Protestants. Many Protestants send their children to Catholic schools, with no qualms whatsoever, while Catholic clergy officiate at Church of Scotland services, and vice-versa, in a spirit of ecumenicalism. The only sectarian hatred evident today is fostered by the Orange Order, which seems to have no other raison d'etre than the hatred of Catholics, especially those of Irish descent. Of course, if anyone hates the Orange Order and its brood of bigots then it is portrayed as hatred of Protestants. This is akin to saying that any black person in America that hates the KKK is a hater of white people!
A funny example of this appeared on McMurdo's blog. One poster said he was an Orangeman, who had marched throughout Scotland. He said he encountered bigotry and sectarian hatred in Greenock and Port Glasgow; not from him and his cronies, you understand, but from those Kaffliks. The utter brainlessness of this kind of thinking makes you wonder whether to laugh or cry. I suppose they've got to come up with some kind of excuse, no matter how pathetic, for their hatred!
Leggat is led in to answer to the board.
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