Peter Lawwell’s comments on Friday that Celtic receive no support from Glasgow City or Scottish Government circles reflects years of plans being frustrated by incoherent rejections.
Were it not for the Commonwealth Games being hosted in the city in 2014, planning permission to redevelop the area to the front of Celtic Park would continue to be rejected. The reality that the Queen would drive past a derelict former school, with vegetation growing from every nook, was sufficient motivation for the Council to allow Celtic to remove the building and landscape the area. You have Her Mag. to thank for the Celtic Way.
Celtic would like a fanzone. Somewhere you can congregate before a match, where you might even be able to visit a toilet, but the Council doesn’t want it. Planning permission is sought for the hotel. On the face of it, this is a fantastic initiative for a long-deprived area of the city, the Council should be doing their best to encourage Celtic into spending the money, not looking disinterested.
Then we have the proposed no parking zone, which would see it illegal for you to park within one mile of Celtic Park on match days. Parking would start at the one mile limit, but would surely extend a couple of miles beyond this before we are all accommodated. Public transport to and from the area is vastly under served, there simply isn’t the capacity to cope with many football fans. Your choice will be to walk miles to and from the game, or stop going.
The likely change of administration at the Council, from Labour to SNP isn’t necessarily going to help, either. A councillor from the latter camp raised concerns when Celtic asked for permission to build the Superstore, citing that it could damage trade going to local supermarkets. This is the environment we have to operate in!
The Scottish Government set their faces to stone on the subject of Celtic when Alex Salmond decided to get involved in Scottish football in 2011, leaving us with the ludicrous Offensive Behaviour’ Act.
The Scottish Parliament voted to repeal this act last year, after countless football fans, and Celtic, campaigned on the issue. However, the will of the Scottish Parliament isn’t always respected by the Scottish Government, who ignored the vote, before setting their 2017 agenda on inducing moral outrage when the will of the Scottish Parliament is ignored.
The irony should be disappointing, but it’s not even surprising. Scammers, one and all.
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blantyretim is praying for the Knox family on 11th April 2017 9:03 am
Got it — only getting round to answering all the e-mails this week.
HH
BRTH
TONYDONNELLY67 on 11TH APRIL 2017 8:38 AM
‘Brendan said “we have a very clever board” well! I’m afraid that will not go down to well with a few in here eh?’
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I don’t recall anyone suggesting the board were stupid.
They’ve maybe done stupid things from time to time*, but that doesn’t make them stupid.
(* And before you ask, they appointed RD.)
BLANTYRETIM
Wish Mini all the best.
Same goes for everyone undergoing the same trials and tribulations!
A STOR MHA CHROI on 11TH APRIL 2017 6:08 AM
This response today seems to be a juxtaposition on your views from yesterday I think.
I don’t doubt your genuine concern but I simple don’t think the Australian policy (from what I understand of it) helps the refugee.
As far as Calais, I would look to resettle as many as could possibly be resettled in the UK – we have enough resources to go around.
The charlatans (there will be some) – we have to accept that it is part of the gig I’m afraid but I still think we need to be far more pro-active.
KTF
ERNIELYNCH
Does a 60% increase in pensioners season tickets count as a stupid thing?
Maybe the “waiting list” contains a smaller %age of over-65s,in which case it’s quite a cynical thing.
There is nothing curious about Kelty Hearts v Deidco — the curiosity is the process which resulted in them being given a temporary licence to play v Brechin .
I cannot believe Bournesouprecipe did not get any reaction to his “bring an upper tier to glass eye” yeterday.
Classic one liner. Deserved greater recognition. Where has all the humour gone?
We should be enjoying these fantastic times to be a Tim days.
Eurochamps67
YouandmewillsetupourownweefunnycliqueoftwoinlisboaCSC
Agree BMCUW
PAUL67
Peter Lawell is bang on the money about the slow dragged of heelness in regards to both the scottish government abd Glasgow district council.They are clueless.
no other business bringin jobs and people, amd their economic might, into the area would be repulsed.it should br welcomed..
Welcomed. espcially as costings and funding is in place.
Let the politicians explain why the building/construction jobs are not happening.
The hotel jobs thereafter
The conferencing potential for growth in the east end
Well done Celtic for highlighting the contrast in thinking between 19th century bowlin club mentality and its stinted attitude to ‘bisniss’ amd the
21st century club that we are
HH
A STOR MHA CHROI on 11TH APRIL 2017 6:08 AM
That is some post.
The Refugee crisis is something that bothers me every day.
Famine, flood, earthquake are crises of recent years that shock us all. We all donate or do what we can and we watch the news in horror. But it’s almost buffered by the ‘natural disaster’ tag. It wasn’t our fault and it’s normally so very far away. Donating and watching the world’s aid agencies get to work appeases us, I think.
The Refugee crisis is different. It’s man made. The reasons are for another discussion but arriving on Europe’s borders and migrating across ‘our’ land brought out the best and the worst in our own people and politicians. My deep resentment to our media and establishment right now is that the plight is now largely ignored. Certainly in comparison to what we had last Spring. But it hasn’t gone away at all. More refugees are penned in camps and there is, apparently, no media allowed. Out of sight, out of mind, and their treatment has become less humane and overtly aggressive by authorities.
Last summer I helped put together a package that was largely funded by the CQN golf day. Two young guys, an Aberdeen fan and a disaffected bluenose as it happens, (I said disaffected, not disinfected you moron) went to the Idomini camp on the Greek / Macedonian border. Stefan from Aberdeen had been out on his own and told us the camps were disparate. An official camp with some basics like water troughs but several bigger unofficial camps where folk had arrived with nothing, had nothing, made makeshift latrines.
Ordinary people. Not famine or flood affected, just weeks before they had been at home watching their HD telly, iMessaging pals, working Monday to Friday, then war arrived in their towns. Hours or minutes of warning, not days. Grab your weans, a rucksack, your phone and a toilet bag and go. And the road’s blocked so you’re walking and running for days until you’re safe.
Can you even begin to imagine?
Anyway, Stefan said the kids were in a terrible state. Parents inconsolable, stressed and a completely unnatural environment of fear and suffering. He and Andy got over there, hired a van and drove to Greece’s equivalent of Sports Direct and bought basketball nets, goals, footballs, hooplas and the like ran 4 weeks of daily activities. All unpaid. It you don’t follow the Glasgow the Caring City on face book you can do here and roll back to see the stories on the timeline. https://www.facebook.com/CARINGCITY
Stefan bought a tent and stayed on, unfunded for another 3 weeks after Andy had to come home. The camps at that point were under huge army aggression and were being broken up, scattered to the wind, not in Greece’s back yard please. Organisation and stability just didn’t suit at all.
Meanwhile the coordinator of the charity, Ross, organised 4 shipments of winter clothes further up the refugee path in Serbia. http://www.eveningtimes.co.uk/news/13651787.Refugee_crisis__Glasgow_to_send_container_loads_of_clothes_to_the_Balkans/
A couple of CQNers helped load one of the shipments. On the ground he met many of the recipients. James Dornan MSP went on one of the trips. Mostly either families trying to get there together, older lone males paving the way for the family back in the camps, or young men who had been set on their way by their families to find a life.
Mostly Syrians but among them Afghans, Eritreans, Iraqis. There’s no doubt some of them were not fleeing war, they were piggybacking on the crisis to jump borders.
But my point is this. The refugee crisis is a humanitarian disaster. The UK Government took the position that it would throw money at the situation to appease our collective conscience. Fund unnatural environments such as the camps with no social infrastructure. These camps bread fear and loathing, they are all wrong. They are prisons for the innocent.
Secondly to make any justification for that based on the comparatively tiny number of opportunists is fundamentally inhumane. Ross, Andy, Stefan and the other volunteers encountered countless thousands of refugees. The overwhelming majority just wanted to go home to Syria. That is the truth of the matter. When you see politicians tell you about us being over run it is their racist agenda. Be in no doubt whatsoever. At this moment these racist people are winning. Refugees are basically off the media agenda yet nothing is solved.
Anyway, sorry for the diatribe, it’s just something that perpetually bothers me. There but for the Grace of God indeed. The political momentum at the moment is surely stretching that grace.
Good morning Bhoys from a dry but not promising Central Scotland.H.H.
Education .
Italian schools (Primary and Secondary ) have Civic education classes which include the teaching ( and hopefully the learning) of the following legal terms . —
Refuge
Displaced Person .
Asylum Seeker .
Asylum
Refugee.
.
Ernie Lynch
I don’t recall anyone at all in the article I posted saying the board where stupid either?
VFR800:
My views today are the same as they were yesterday, I don’t understand the context of ‘juxtaposition’.
Australia has a policy in place to deter ‘people smuggling’ with criminals profiting whilst risking innocent lives on treacherous waters; laudable in one respect, lamentable in another. Okay I too believe it is broader than that and Australia could and should do more. I think the whole world could and should but I can’t speak for the world I can only speak for myself and what I have seen and what I have experienced.
I don’t slag off the UK for not taking in all those refugees, what would ever give me that right?
BMCUW
60 % increase in 65 + ST ? Where did that figure come from. ?
JJ
Blantyrekev
A great humanitarian post amid a sea of bitter rhetoric.
I recently watched this film
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3674140/
Being a photographer I was interested first in Salgado’s work but on watching this I saw he has documented the global exodus as his life work.
This film is well worth a watch to get a view from the ground so to speak.
Well done to you and your friends for doing what you did.
Humanity is the only answer to humanity’s deep deep problems..
HH
A STOR MHA CHROI on 11TH APRIL 2017 9:57 AM
https://www.dss.gov.au/settlement-and-multicultural-affairs/programs-policy/syrian-and-iraqi-refugee-crisis/refugee-settlement-media-hub
BlantyreKev
Thank you for your words and insight. That is a special post that should be read and every word taken on board. The plight of the 100’s of thousands displaced by the greed of western corruption and war is shocking and more should be done to help those displaced from their homes, towns, cities and countries.
MWD
I’v yet to see or hear of this 65% increase on a 65+ season ticked I’m not saying it doesent exist, I’d just like as I said some proof that’s all, if it is it’s shocking obviously?
Site down?
DALLAS DALLAS .
Enrico Chiesa ?
A very good player (IMO ) whose career was badly affected by a series of injuries .. Think he was at his best at Parma playing alongside Hernan Crespo .. Remember a TV interview with the man where he expressed regret that Fabio Cappello had described him as being a cross between Gigi Riva and Paolo Rossi — ” talk about pressure !!! “
BlantyreKev:
Thank you for taking the time to post that.
Thank you for being you.
One of the things i love about being a Celtic Supporter, is the collective demographic heart. I know you instanced others not from the Celtic family and that is to their eternal credit but I, maybe with bias, believe that the Celtic Support have soul and compassion beyond most, if not all.
There but for the Grace of God I have lost count of the nights I have fallen asleep with those words taunting my mind. And nightmares followed.
HOTSMOKED
JIMTIM mentioned it last night.
£210 to £334
SOT…these terms are also explained and learned here…it’s just that in some places the prefix ‘bogus’ is emphasised…
Mind games .
TV preview re tonights Rube v Barca game . Up pops Xavi heaping praise on Dybala ( rumored to be signing for Barca )— ” A fabulous talent , he is a perfect fit for a Barca shirt “
My oap season ticket went up by 50.00 pounds (for some reason I can’t type the pound sign).
‘GG on 11TH APRIL 2017 3:58 AM
PRW Paisley Road West
Thanks for your reply ~ it was bugging me!
Also want to thank you for the live updates you provide to folk like me cannot access the streams
HH
PCS
Did you hold the shift key down as you press the pound sign?
Hopefully Juventus crush that mob tonight.
Anybody bar Barcelona.
Worse cheats than the zombies they are.
Hail Hail.
I checked my online ticket account, and my ticket has gone up to £466 from £416 last year. I don’t mind the increase of £50, I suppose that’s just the price of success as it is still cheaper than it was in 2012.
However, my beef is the Club should have told people in advance of the proposed increase instead of sliding it in under the feel good factor of Brendan signing his new contract last Friday.
50,000+ season tickets going up an extra £50 = £2.5million extra. I suppose there is a silver lining as hopefully no more of the fans money will be wasted on the likes of Carlton Cole, Cifcti, Kazzim Richards, Pukki, Balde, Boerighter, Bangurra, Lassad, Scepovic, Miku. That’s nearly a full time of non-scoring forwards that we’ve signed in 3 years. (I shudder the thought of trying to quantify the cost of fees’ wages & agents fees wasted on that mob alone!!, but someone out there should give it a try!! close to £10million wasted at least..)
a full TEAM of non scoring forwards I should have type…sorry
Rube v Barca ~ who are the biggest cheats?
Over time I would say Rube, but Barca catching up fast IMO
A STOR MHA CHROI on 11TH APRIL 2017 9:57 AM
You said yesterday @ 12:13 PM
Macjay’s views on immigration are quite simply supporting the Australian system on immigration. I tend to agree with his views. Every queue jumper afforded residency does so at the expense of ‘authentic’ refugees.
MACJAY @ 2:28AM informed us that The Australian govt. warned several years ago that NO people arriving in Australia by boat would ever be settled in Australia. It was elected and re-elected on this promise.
To me, supporting that stance doesn’t sit comfortably alongside you post earlier this morning. Hence my feeling that your posts were juxtaposed.
KTF
Anyone got any results on the 60% increase on the 65+ season tickets yet?
There is no escape
Oot n aboot — sitting in the sun — a break – a fine espresso -reading the fitba pink -phone goes -it’s Mrs S of T — ” where’s this – I want to play it -I can’t find it -where have you hidden it ”
” This ” can be today’s Choon of the Day –.
7 ” — The Rosebuds — Say You’ll Be Mine – (Tower )
VFR800:
I did not see, nor read, Macjay’s second post that you have referenced in your post above. However, in defence of the Australian Governments stance, why should they encourage criminals to profit from people smuggling?
As I said, I am all for a world without borders but I don’t make the law and I don’t want to profit from breaking it either, and i don’t want heartless thugs (the people smugglers) making coin from promises they cannot deliver whilst gambling the lives of innocents on their money grabbing ventures.
Australia is right to stop the boats, it is wrong to not take more of the desperate unfortunates. But honestly mate, heart weeping aside, how do you, or I, or anybody else, determine who gets in and who doesn’t?
I know it is not an easy question, with no easy answer, but how do you facilitate it?
Iran accepts so many refugees, more than most, as long as you are of the right religion. I don’t know if that is kind or brutal.
SOUTHOFTUNIS
For your delectation…
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=PTsNgANLwhc
BMCUW
Thanks. Mine was £307 this year. I cannot remember last year`s cost.
JJ