Scottish Labour frontbencher quits over links to sex offender

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Scottish Labour MSP Pam Duncan-Glancy has quit her frontbench role after admitting a "serious error of personal judgement" over a friendship with a convicted sex offender.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cqjgq2z4wj2o

Pleased to see that these issues are being reported in the press - only obliquely but below the line (Times, Telegraph, Mail) people are pointing out these uncomfortable truths

Done!

Oh my giddy aunt! Pam Duncan-Glancy is doubling down.

She was "providing support to a highly vulnerable person" apparently
https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/25847552.pam-duncan-glancy-defends-friendship-sex-offender-sean-morton/

That’s an interesting way to refer to a sex offender, Pam.

I think this is a typical attitude of a person whose sense of self is based on #bekind. Similar to the people who have had some form of counselling or therapy and then decide that they are qualified to test out their limited experience on other people’s mental health issues….this person sees herself as kind and has put her ego of wanting to be seen as kind ahead of common sense.

Step 2, by the script as it stands, will be a discovery that yes he did know, followed by a lot of angry meetings and a few other people falling on their swords.

It's getting boring. In the 70s there were non stop jokes on the BBC about how MPs and judges were all cross dressers, forever being caught with rent boys of questionable age etc etc due to the constantly emerging sordid stories in the press. It really looks like either nothing ever changed or we have a particularly regressive bunch this decade.

Apparently Labour canvassers are reporting back to HQ that they're being told they are the paedo party on the doorstep now

In a way, good. It might kick HQ sufficiently up the behind to do a radical overhaul of ethics, morals, any sense of public responsibility and service, and actual accountability, all of which has been lousy for years now across all parties.