TORIES ARE A BUNCH OF MASONS
Keith Harding (the Tories’ local government spokesman) is one, so is Phil Gallie, Jamie McGrigor and Brian Monteith. Pipe-smokers? Backgammon champions? Complete wankers? Now now. Not at all - they're all fine upstanding members of the Scottish parliamentary scene who all happen to like dressing up, rolling up their trouser legs and being all secretive about who they've got planning permission for their conservatories. Yes they're all in the funny-handshake brigade! Now David McLetchie, the leader of the Scottish Tories, was under pressure to explain his Masonic links last night after it emerged that he had been a freemason - less than a week after insisting that he was not. Mcletchie has denied it but last night he was forced to issue a statement confirming that he had, in fact, been a Freemason several years ago. Mr McLetchie insisted he no longer paid any subscriptions and had not attended any meetings for years. However, a senior source within the Freemasons’ Grand Lodge in Scotland said it was impossible to stop being a Mason and Mr McLetchie was still a member of the organisation, whether he liked it or not. A spokesman for the SNP said: "It appears that David McLetchie has got a selective memory. The next thing you know, he will be telling us that Margaret Thatcher was liked by the Scottish people and it was not the Tories who brought in the Poll Tax." What would be good to know now though is the status of other key members of the elite – like senior police officers and judges. The Tories are after all a pretty useless slot aren’t they? I mean does anyone really care of Phil Gallie is a mason? What’s he going to do have you banned from the golf club? Freemasonry Watch here...
