Unionist MSP James Kelly has praised Dave King over his pledge to pay a handfull of staff the living wage!
Taking the South African based criminal on his word is a dangerous business as investors, tax collectors and judges in his adopted homeland know to their cost.
Attention seeking Kelly looks certain to join the ranks of the unemployed on 6 May 2016 when the good folk of Rutherglen get the opportunity to end his privileged lifestyle of first class travel, expenses and the other benefits that a career in politics offers.
While Kelly lapped up the sound-bites from the AGM the more discerning of his constituents will have noted that the club in the Govan area haven’t in fact signed up to the Living Wage.
Like Mr King’s promise to repay £5m to Sports Direct, Kelly should realise that it is the comment of a glib and shameless liar.
Showing the awareness that saw new Labour virtually wiped off the map at the Westminster elections earlier this year the Rutherglen MSP said: “I welcome the announcement by Rangers that they will adopt the living wage and pay it to all their employees.
“This is a significant move which I know will be welcomed by supporters of all clubs.
“Football clubs have an important role to play in taking a lead and ensuring that workers are paid a fair days’ pay for a fair days’ work.
“This increases the pressure on Celtic and I am calling on the Celtic board to reconsider their position and pay all their staff a living wage.”
Rather than desperately chase votes in the hope of hanging onto his Holyrood meal ticket Kelly ought to look beyond the headlines before opening his gob.
For the avoidance of doubt Celtic pay the living wage to all full-time employees. Committing to the Living Wage charter would be appreciated by almost all supporters and the lowest paid employees who mainly work in the club’s retail stores.
As he enters the last five months of his political career Kelly should perhaps consider throwing his support behind the hundreds of Glasgow businesses and public bodies that went unpaid by liquidation in 2012.
While taxi companies, florists and newsagents suffered hardship for unpaid bills Kelly’s Hero Mr King enjoys first class travel between South Africa and the UK while the likes of Lee Wallace, Ally McCoist, David Templeton, Andrew Dickson and Lee McCulloch have raked in fortunes since 2012.
In 2010 unionist Kelly took the Rutherglen seat with a majority of less than 2,000 from the SNP, it won’t take many more voters to switch side’s to end the gravy train for the out of touch Labour man. At the Westminster election SNP took the Rutherglen seat with a 10,000 majority.
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NOTE (SFTB) Your comments are as welcome as a Scottish new Labour MP at Westminster, the only thing that your hero Kelly is interested in and campaigning for is to retain his meal-ticket, I have contempt for all politicians with a special personal distaste for the ‘working class warriors’ of new Labour.
There are other outlets for your party political broadcasts, enjoy. We are almost in 2016 and the Scottish working class no longer blindly back the smug chancer with a red rosette.
The ignorance demonstrated by Kelly should be noted by all his consituents when they decide which box to mark the cross in. If this is typical of Labour, not sure it is, then another rout at the ballot box beckons.
Contemptible bastard.
Joe,
What else do you expect from a politition, a shower of Leeches and Liars ,what good are they?the only thing they know is how to look after themselves. Look around glasgow and see their handiwork, thank goodness for the clubs Foundation and charities like the Sally Army and the nurses and staff at the Hospitals and Hospises they are our Heros.
King telling the truth your having a laugh,as with Mr Kelly,as you say Joe he’s trying to save his job,a last throw of the dice,appeasing to the unclean,disgraceful.
It has been suggested on other sites Celtic did not give their employees the last rise in the living wage. I would be delighted if you could tell us otherwise?
All full time employees at Celtic are on Full Living Wage..Only part Time workers don’t get it..The difference at Crumbledome is there are only half a dozen full time workers compared to Celtic’s..
1 GASL talking about another one..This clown should look over his shoulder and see what’s happening at Crumpledome..The place is falling apart both inside and out..And he’s giving advice to the Celtic board..The Living wage is paid to all full time employes of the club..If we ever need advice on how to cheat steal and Rob people Mr Kelly we’ll give you a fone..
To become an official LW employer you first have to go through a stringent accreditation process so that which would prevent a glib and shameless liar trying to get plaudits for something he hasn’t even seriously thought about. You wouldn’t expect anything else from him.
It is time to take all low paid workers out of the poverty trap so Celtic should ensure all catering/security contractors are LW companies before they sign a contract with them. Simple way to avoid SMSM and the likes of Kelly getting cheap digs in against us.
King knows his zombie audience, but looks to have found an MSP of the same intelligence, say know more.
HH
Dafty
Well I can assure you that Mr Kelly has more questions to answer when he knocks my door looking for answers, have plenty to ask him, welcome to tyreland Mr Kelly
Have Rangers even begun the process to pay all their employees the living wage rate?
Kelly cannot be very clever if he takes what King says at face value……….although surely he knows that he is a GASL but has chosen to ignore it as it doesn’t fit his agenda.
It’s absolutely comical that Kelly is comparing Celtic, a club that pays their taxes, their creditors, their full time staff the living wage rate with an organisation that has cheated, lied and robbed the taxman and creditors of millions of pounds.
A club led by a convicted criminal, floundering in a financial mess of their own making.
Yeah Mr Kelly, jog on, you won’t be getting my vote.
This is an SNP blog today and not a Celtic one.
Mr. Kelly has done nothing wrong other than welcome the “announcement” at face value and he used the future tense so he was well aware that this is not an accomplished fact.
As an MSP campaigning for football clubs to implement the Living Wage, he cannot very well turn round and call a club’s spokesman a liar (even with Dave King’s record), when they say they are going to do what you asked them to do. Celtic’s hands are far from clean on this issue- they voted down the Living Wage call last year and then came back this year with a pretence that they had introduced it (even though they paid for it by withdrawing a long standing bonus). And, of course, they have not signed up as an accredited employee.
Now, I am with you on the fact that I would not take Dave King’s pledge seriously but then I am not an MSP so I am free to doubt the GASL publicly. James Kelly has to wait a period, before he can call out this pledge as meaningless.
The difference is he has made a stand on this. None of your SNP heroes have bothered their arse to tackle Celtic or Rangers International on the issue. Typically, you praise those that say and do nothing because they won’t make a mistake that way. You urge the voters of Rutherglen and Canbuslang to vote against this campaigner for the Living Wage and instead vote for some SNP apparatchik who will not vote against or condemn the OBaF Act that this party introduced to shaft some young Celtic fans.
This is what happens on Celtic sites when your loyalty to the SNP trumps your support of Celtic.
REMEMBER THE NAME JAMES KELLY WHAT A FECKING SYCOPHANTIC PRICK
A praising flatterer