Sam Galbraith

Today, Tuesday 20th March, Sam Galbraith put in his jotters (handed in his resignation) as Health/Education Minister in the Scottish and UK Parliaments.

The young Sam Galbraith won prizes for medicine at Glasgow University and became a highly respected Neurosurgeon.

Neurosurgeons are wee peeploids what are terribly skilled and save the lives of people that you and FirstFoot love.

In common with his University colleague, the late Donald Dewar, Sam Galbraith had a passionate belief in the extension of opportunity and choice to the working class.

So, he gave up medicine and went into politics. He became a UK Westminster MP and thereafter one of the first elected members of the new Scottish Parliament.

He underwent a Lung transplant in 1990 due to a genetic condition; one which killed his sister.

So. when he resigned for health reasons, the political media Mafia in Scotland rose in slightly wary praise of him, (he was famed for a bedside manner that is now unfashionable i.e. the "fuck off , I'm a Doctor" school of charm).

From his political opponents too, there were universally positive acknowledgments of Galbraith's contribution to politics in Scotland.

Until we got to "Bankrupt Monteith".

Contrast and Compare: Montieth is known for representing organisations such as Forest which promotes the cigarette use which leads to Lung Cancer. Montieth has been a paid consultant to Forest.

Galbraith is known for trying to save the lives of people who consumed the products that Montieth got paid for promoting.

This wee, smug, self-satisfying shite tore into the political record of Galbraith on Newsnight Scotland. He used the opportunity to kick the man who was down.

As readers of this site may have discerned, FirstFoot does not have much regard for Montieth .... but as he so ably demonstrates, the lowest can get lower ....

But not much.

Yer a wee shite Montieth !!!!