An outbreak of CDIF occurred at the Vale of Leven Hospital in West Dunbartonshire. This was the most recent failure in service delivery at the hospital and the public are very unhappy about it.
Labour councillors turned on their local MSP demanding her resignation over local hospital services.
Jackie Baillie, the Dumbarton Labour MSP and former communities minister, was attacked by four Labour members of West Dunbartonshire Council, including former leader Andy White.
They sided with the Scottish National Party and independent councillors at a full council meeting which brought the ruling administration to the brink of collapse. Martin Rooney, who replaced Andy White after his forced resignation.
In December, only six of the 16 people elected as Labour councillors in 2003 attended. Several stayed away while four rebels voted against the Labour line and sought revenge on Ms Baillie for her public attacks on them.
Dec 2008: West Dunbartonshire Council in the news again.
Labour Grandees, MP John McFall and MSP Jackie Baillie accused by Councillor and former colleague, (in a letter to the Labour Party General Secretary) of overseeing a “thuggish” clique within the Labour Party in Scotland.
McFall is the chair of the powerful House of Commons Treasury select committee, while Baillie is a former minister and ex-chief of staff for Labour at Holyrood.
Marie McNair, who has served on West Dunbartonshire Council for five years, said the politicians, who ran her local party forced their will on party decisions quelling any opposition by intimidation. She also claimed to have suffered sexist abuse by a party member and that she was shouted down at meetings for challenging decisions.
The allegations were contained in a letter of resignation sent by McNair to Colin Smith, the Scottish Labour general secretary, which said:
“It fills me with despair that such thuggish and intimidatory behaviour has been tolerated and covered up by the Labour Party.”
The contents of McNair’s letter were read out in public at a meeting of the SNP-led council.
At 2025 Jackie Baillie the thuggish MSP continues to dominate the political agenda of the Labour Party in Scotland. Who is protecting her?
Grok report below
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Whether Baillie is being protected or not is a moot point however she appeared to give Sturgeon a not inconsiderable level of protection by choosing not to follow through on a particular line of questioning to which she had some knowledge of and to which Sturgeon quite clearly bridled at.
Baillie and Sturgeon quite possibly under the protection of forces hostile to Scots and Independence?
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I noted that exchange at the Tribunal. Sturgeon visibly bristled when questioned by Baillie I think the “protection” she benefits from can be traced to the Trades Unions. Isn’t hr husband a Union official of some note?
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