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escotregen wrote:I think that we need to be careful of falling backwards into the trap of the tendency for some Glaswegians to play the victimhood card.
Peekay wrote:escotregen wrote:I think that we need to be careful of falling backwards into the trap of the tendency for some Glaswegians to play the victimhood card.
I think Liverpool has taken the 'always the victim' title now anyway!
PK
on Wed Oct 03, 2007 9:01 pm
I think that we need to be careful of falling backwards into the trap of the tendency for some Glaswegians to play the victimhood card. The reason that the ‘conspiracy’ story petered out is because there is no evidence to support it. Earlier in the thread it was suggested there was evidence because:
cochrane wrote:"Victim status" has been mentioned a few times — could you perhaps define what you mean in this context?
The Corporation knew a powerful anti-Glasgow momentum in government planners and politicians existed. The Corporation knew powerful forces planned, in tackling the city’s problems, to reduce the city’s power and influence, to bring Glasgow down to the level of the rest of small town Scotland.
They knew the New Towns Act was coming. They had been banned from rebuilding within their pre-War boundaries.
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