The humiliation of Celtic Chairman Brian Wilson

Brian Wilson has been humiliated by the Scottish electorate.

After months of campaigning for the Labour Party they won just 17 out of the 129 seats in the Holyrood Parliament.

The same total as their friends in Reform and just two more than the Greens. Both of those parties are on the rise, Labour are in long term decline. They are down five MSP’s on the 2021 election

Labour won just three constituency seats. Their leader Anas Sarwar, given a daily national platform lost his own seat, Glasgow Cathcart and Pollok by more than 5,000 votes.

In-between his pointless Supporter Updates on Celtic TV Wilson has been campaigning tirelessly for the Labour Party.

Recently he appeared on BBC Scotland’s The Sunday Show to defend his long term friend Peter Mandelson.

All of those efforts have been rejected by the Scottish electorate.

Celtic are now in the embarrassing position of having a Chairman who is constantly critical of the Government.

Whether you like them or not the Chairman of a PLC has to be diplomatic with a Government that has another five year mandate.

Explaining why the electorate again rejected Labour, Wilson told Scotsman readers:

Scotland’s fortunes are about to get even worse as the country prepares for five more years of grievance politics under the SNP.

So what does Scotland have to look forward to now? Unless mindsets change, it will be another five years of grievance, blame-shifting and perpetual search for conflict. It was predicted but it’s still a dismal prospect.

After that the article is behind a paywall. It probably reads like every other one of Wilson’s rants as he blames the SNP for all of Scotland’s problems.

The headline for the article read:

How London Labour blew Scotland’s best chance for meaningful change

Nothing to do with Westminster, nothing to do with failed UK policies such as Brexit which removed UK industry from its largest marketplace.

The Scottish electorate aren’t as gullible as the Labour Party thinks. They can even join the dots to Sir Keir Starmer.

Much like Celtic’s feeble efforts in Europe over Wilson’s 20 plus years as a free-loader on the Celtic board.

WILSON’S RECORD OF FAILURE- POLITICS AND FOOTBALL

As a Non Executive Director Wilson’s job at Celtic is to provide checks and balances. To ensure best practice in every area.

Wilson has given his approval to the decision making process that has inflicted Mark Lawwell, Paul Tisdale and Wilfried Nancy on the pay roll.

In the summer of 2023 Michael Nicholson boasted of Celtic’s ambitions to be world class in everything they do. There is nothing at Celtic that is close to world class. Mediocrity abounds.

Young players are wasted in the Lowland League, nothing has changed inside the stadium in 20 years with millions donated to HMRC in corporation tax from a board that ran out of ideas in 2012.

The people of Scotland have emphatically rejected the Unionist policies of the Labour Party.

It is time for Celtic’s decision maker to do the same with Wilson. Send him into retirement alongside Peter Lawwell and Tom Allison.

That would leave Michael Nicholson and Chris McKay feeling very isolated.

It was never going to be a short term operation but the Celtic Fans Collective are taking out the club stalwarts one by one by exerting minimal pressure. It is called scrutiny.

Perhaps Dermot Desmond could be forced into finding people appropriately qualified for the executive roles at Celtic Park. Not just looking internally or for relatives of current employees.