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Missing the party

IT’S Carnival Day in Govanhill tomorrow, which means parades, politics and even a Roma ceilidh. Perhaps even Southside MSP Nicola Sturgeon will make an appearance.

As Neil Findlay noted in his Star column this week, it would be more than Springburn MSP Bob Doris managed for the closure rally at the Caley railway works last month.

 

Sign of the times

 

TALKING of Govanhill, they don’t mince their words round there. The A-frame board on one of my favourite local cafes reads: “BORIS JOHNSON IS A RACIST, ISLAMOPHOBIC, SEXIST, HOMOPHOBIC JOBBY.” Come on, tell us what you really think!

 

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