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FM calls for police action to deal with threatening crowd
A clearly intimidated Jack McConnell called today for police action in moving on a threatening crowd congregating close to his office.

A shaken Mr MCConnell told The JT: "I’ve been trying to push through the Anti-Social Behaviour Bill which would allow police to move on youths acting in an intimidating manner. And it's quite clear that I’ve become a victim myself."

Mr McConnell was referring to a collection of Lib-Dem MSPs hanging around the Assembly building, smoking, drinking cans of Special and refusing to support the new bill in a threatening manner.

Ringleader Donald Gorrie told the JT:  "See this new bill right? It's pure an attack on they civil liberty ‘hings. And we’re telling Jack tae cut it oot right? Or we’ll batter his pan in."

It is thought that the police are reluctant to implement the proposed new law in dispersing the trackie-bottomed Lib-Dems, as a spokesplod now explains: "The First Minister can easily deal with the problem by recourse to existing practice:  i.e. concede ground to the Lib-Dems on Proportinal Representation for the Scottish Parliament, since that’s what this is really about."

Inside: Presiding Officer rules Lib-Dem description of Labour MSPs as a "bunch a fannies" unparliamentary language.
January 2004

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