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Just in case you missed it, it was reported on Thursday that Jack, Scotland’s great leader, had written to an MSP to express his concerns over events in Gorgie. And of course, this was used by the Weegie press as another excuse to keech on Hearts from a great height. But there are a couple of points that Jack should maybe consider about his daft intervention in Tynecastle matters. The first is that he expressed these sentiments in a letter to Margo MacDonald MSP. Now, Margo was the blonde bombshell who won Govan for the SNP back in the 1970s, and she has been one of the most feisty and independent MSPs to grace the Scottish Parliament. But she is also a grade A, died in the wool, Hibee. Her daughter even married a Proclaimer – and before you ask, no, I don’t know if it was the ugly twin or the even uglier one. Now most Hibees I know have spent the last couple of months chortling at the continuing mess in Gorgie, despite their own glaring lack of success. But then that never seems to bother them. Margo is the only Hibee I can recall who has expressed any actual concern for the future of Hearts. But Hibees just don’t have the right to discuss anything to do with a big team until their own mob start performing properly. If I were a prominent Hibee, it wouldn’t be events at Tynecastle that would be worrying me. I would be more concerned about my own team being ripped apart by greedy players who want nothing more than to sign for the Old Firm. Then there’s the wealthy owner who won’t spend a penny on the team despite making a fortune over-charging people for exhaust repairs. Then there’s the fact that they have managed through sheer force of will to avoid winning the Scottish Cup since the days of the suffragettes. Combine all of that with a dwindling, backward-looking fan base and a sectarian past that compares with anything the Old Firm can muster and you’ve got a club going nowhere fast. But oor Margo has overlooked all of this to concern herself with events in Gorgie and, as a Stick to what you know and give us all a rest, Jack He’s barry, he’s a radge, it’s.. Barry Radge CONCERN: But affairs at Tynecastle are not the business of MSPs Margo MacDonald or Jack McConnell Now First Minister wants angry Hearts supporters to grass in Vlad to the SFA Lothians MSP she can just about get away with it. But then we come to Jack McConnell. He could have written back to Margo telling her that football matters were nothing to do with him. Instead, he effectively called on anyone with a gripe against Vlad to daub him in it with the SFA. Now maybe Jack hasn’t looked too hard at Scotland recently, what with all his hob-nobbing around staying in TV stars’ Spanish villas. But if he cared to look he would see that Scotland is a pile of pants. Our economic growth is on a par with Namibia, Rwanda and the South fecking Pole. Our housing schemes are full of young people who would rather kill themselves with heroin than spend another day living here. The transport system is so messed up it was actually quicker to travel between our major cities in the 1850s than it is today. The health service has been farmed out to private companies who charge us £150 a day to park outside their hospitals, while the old and sick wait longer and longer for operations. Murderers and rapists are allowed out early from our jails to murder and rape again, but nobody seems able to do anything about it. We’re run by a bunch of excooncil numpties who sat back and laughed while their parliament building ran £400m over budget. Now Jack has been involved in all of this. He was an MSP from the start of devolution, holding positions such as finance and education minister before becoming First Minsiter. So you would think he would have a lot on his plate right now, what with trying to stop Scotland being a hole and all that. So maybe Jack should shut up about Hearts and get on with his job, which he won’t be in for much longer if he continues to run such a keek government. What’s more, Jack represents an area of Darkest Lanarkshire mired in the sectarian muck kicked up by some the worst elements of the Old Firm following. So if you’re going to talk about football Jack, concentrate on Celtic and Rangers – and leave us alone. Oh aye, and Merry Christmas. Warning : Unknown : The session id contains invalid characters, valid characters are only a-z, A-Z and 0-9 in Unknown on line 0 Warning : Unknown : Failed to write session data files . Please verify that the current setting of session.save_path is correct /var/lib/php/session in Unknown on line 0

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