| With news this week that the Lady Provost of Glasgow has managed to
burn through sixty thousand of your earth pounds in travel expenses in the last 9 months,
said lady provost has hit back at ill-informed media claims that she was taking the piss. Pausing
only to admire her extensive collection of visa stamps, Ms Liz Cameron told a frankly
incredulous waiting media that the 60 big ones was money well spent, saying, (and I’m
not making this up), : "We have helped to change the way that Glasgow is
perceived and this has led to more and more interest from across the world."
Indeed. Doubtless, all across Foreign, people are saying : |
"Truly, the good people of Glasgow must be loaded. Look how
many times that Cameron woman turns up abroad at various free buffets, expenses no
object." And lest your average weegie might
think that Glasgow might have charms too numerous to elucidate in attracting visitors, Ms
Cameron rebuffed such ill-judged opinions saying (as above) :
Ms Cameron receiving her
"Ordine del collo d'ottone" from some foreign bloke somewhere in Foreign.
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"Glasgow does not have a
royal palace or a new parliament to promote it, but it does have me." There
you go, what have you got to complain about?
Finally, as the ultimate refutation of criticism, Ms Cameron went on to say (as above,
again):
"I use my talents as a speaker of three foreign languages to directly engage with
people of power and substance across the globe."
The subtext being : "I use my multi-lingual powers to get to the front of queue
for the buffet where I talk to important people similar to myself, instead of the scruff I
usually have to deal with back in Glasgow." |
