Thursday 27 January 2011

Tell Tale Tommy Tit!

Tommy Sheridan sent down for 3 years!
Yesterday, Tommy Sheridan, the Scottish socialist with a passion for Swinton's sunbeds, was sentenced 3 years for perjury. This is the latest chapter in a sorry affair that has seen Tommy's supporters accuse some of his former Scottish Socialist Party mates of conspiring in a 'vendetta' with the police and the News of the World to jail him. Yet the case against Tommy is detailed and the charge sheet can't easily be dismissed as 'trumped up' when all of it seems to relate to specifics in the original defamation trial including the claims that he and other attended Cupid's Healthclub, 13-17, Sutherland Street, Swinton, Manchester on two occasions in 1996 and 2002.

One charge reads: 'the truth being as you well knew, that on 9th, November 2004 at the Executive Committee meeting of the Scottish Socialist Party held at 70, Stanley Street, Glasgow, you did admit to attending said Cupid's in Manchester (sic) on two occasions in 1996 and 2002 and that you had visited said club with said Anvar Begum Khan'.

Despite this, Tommy's solicitor has said he will appeal against the conviction and would start legal proceedings against News International - the owner of the News of the World - the Metropolitan Police and Glenn Mulcaire, the private investigator jailed for hacking mobile phones for the paper.

However, many on the left have had their doubts about Tommy Sheridan since the days of the poll tax, when he denounced those who fought the police in the mass riot against the poll tax in London - which took place on 31 March 1990. That was the day before the tax was introduced in England and Wales. Shockingly Tommy on that occasion publicly threatened to "name names". The police had widely advertised for people to tell them the names of alleged rioters, and partly as a result of police acting on such information, and as a result over 100 individuals were jailed. One tweet yesterday reminded Tommy: 'What goes around comes around'.

There is something about these people on the British authoritarian left in parties like the Socialist Party and Militant - the mentality of the schoolmistress, the classroom creep and the tell tail tit.

2 comments:

romanticanarchist said...

Tommy Sheridan managed to get a number of us arrested by police in Glasgow in 1989 on the first major anti-poll tax demo there. He's a grass, not a working class hero, as his wife might have you believe. and they don't like grasses where he's gone. Good luck to the ANTIFA in Luton today by the way, I hear they've blockaded the railway station 'scum on the line'. solidarity.

romanticanarchist said...

Tommy the grass Sheridan managed to get me and a number of my mates arrested at the Glasgow anti-poll tax demo in 1989. They're not keen on grasses where he's gone. He's probably busy at this moment trying to convince everybody inside that he's some sort of working class hero. These psychopathic power grabbing types genuinely believe that they're absolutely invincible don't they?