Ding Dong..That, of course,depends on your opinion. I agree, in part..but there`s more to it.
The back stabbing, mainly by some women members, started before this revelation. They couldn`t bear to have a man in charge. I watched it happening. They were part of the downfall too.
I`m not excusing Tommy btw, he`s made complete a*se of it, but he`s not totally to blame for the demise of the SSP.
Just been reading up on today,s events and Tommy going to represent himself. Cant wait, as we know he is a very articulate man. Good luck Tom 
He will need all the luck in the world he has lied in court and is very probably going to jail 
You work in that swingers club in Manchester then?
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No comment 
Tommy thought he was the SSP,Tommy's ego has put him where he is today.
I remember Tommy from his Labour party days ,as I do Fox, delighted that they play no part in Scottish Politics.
Tommy the man of the people ,with his designer suits, Italian leather shoes ,addiction to tanning,ever so vain.
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The rumours are everywhere in the political circles that Sheridan is going to take a plea!!
I remember Tommy from his Labour party days ,as I do Fox, delighted that they play no part in Scottish Politics.
Tommy the man of the people ,with his designer suits, Italian leather shoes ,addiction to tanning,ever so vain.
.The rumours are everywhere in the political circles that Sheridan is going to take a plea!!
Ex-MSP 'took bets' on Sheridan swinger claim
The former MSP Rosie Kane has told the Sheridan perjury trial she went around the Scottish parliament taking bets on the identity of the MSP named in a newspaper as a swinger.
Miss Kane told the court she would be offering odds of 500-1 on it being Tory leader Annabel Goldie.
She was taken aside and told it was Tommy Sheridan and she was to shut up.
The former Scottish Socialist Party (SSP) leader, and his wife Gail, both 46, are on trial accused of perjury.
They deny lying during his successful defamation case against the News of the World in 2006.
Mr Sheridan won £200,000 in damages after the newspaper printed allegations about his private life, claiming he was an adulterer who had visited a swingers' club.
After a police investigation, Mr and Mrs Sheridan were charged with perjury.
Miss Kane told the court she was disgusted when, as she claimed, he admitted to twice visiting a sex club.
She said there were also allegations he had taken part in an orgy at a Glasgow hotel. Under cross-examination from Mr Sheridan, Rosie Kane denied being "a fantasist and a good actress".
Miss Kane claimed Mr Sheridan had "wangled" his defamation win over the News of the World in 2006.
Earlier in the trial, a witness denied being part of a plot to politically destroy the former MSP.
Joanne Harvie made the comments while being cross-examined by Mr Sheridan, who is defending himself at the High Court in Glasgow.
Mr Sheridan continued his cross-examination of Ms Harvie while standing at a lecturn in the dock.
She had earlier told the court she had heard him admit to visiting a swingers' club at a party meeting in November 2004.
During questioning, Ms Harvie told Sheridan: "I was never involved in any faction, in any plot that was out to get you."
Sheridan said to the journalist: "You were always part of the plot to politically do me in?"
Ms Harvie, 33, said: "No, I was not."
She also said she was not part of the "secret cabal" which became the United Left and the "anti-Tommy" faction.
Gun discussionMs Harvie told the court she had heard Mr Sheridan admit to a meeting that he had visited a sex club twice.
The witness said she did not lie when she gave evidence to the defamation case which Mr Sheridan won in 2006 and was not lying in court.
She also told the court she had heard discussion of a gun at the November 2004 meeting but did not recall mention of an orgy in a Glasgow hotel.
It is alleged that Mr Sheridan made false statements as a witness in his defamation action against the News of the World on 21 July 2006.
He also denies another charge of attempting to persuade a witness to commit perjury shortly before the 23-day legal action got under way.
Mrs Sheridan denies making false statements on 31 July 2006, after being sworn in as a witness in the civil jury trial at the Court of Session in Edinburgh.
The trial is due to last between two and three months and is expected to become the longest perjury case in Scottish legal history.
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Not a good day in court for Tommy.
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That's him well and truly in the Trolle tank ..
I have to say it's reallllllllly cringie
But this made me chuckle no shag pile of shagging are involved
Tommy Sheridan told to turn down the volume
Jurors have asked Tommy Sheridan to tone it down when he conducts his cross-examination of witnesses.
Since sacking his QC at the start of the second week of the trial, Sheridan has been defending himself. Initially, the judge, Lord Bracadale, said Sheridan must remain in the dock beside his wife and co-accused to question witnesses. However, he reconsidered in light of submissions from Sheridan, who was allowed to stand at a lectern positioned just in front of the jury box.
At the start of proceedings yesterday, Lord Bracadale addressed Sheridan, saying he suspected that Sheridan's voice was louder than he realised.
"Members of the jury have requested that since you are standing nearer to them, you reduce the volume of your voice somewhat," said Lord Bracadale.
Sheridan thanked the judge for bringing the matter to his attention and added: "My wife has already chastised me for that."
To many Kane's
Sheridan ‘absent’ from start of party’s festival
Tommy Sheridan did not appear at a major party event he was due to attend in Glasgow on the night that he is alleged to have been at a swingers’ club in Manchester, a court heard.
The claim was made by Allison Kane, former treasurer of the Scottish Socialist Party, who told the court she had been heavily involved in the organisation of the party’s “People’s Festival”, held from September 26 until September 29, 2002.
The court heard that it was an “explosion” of music and culture, the highlight being a question and answer session with film director Ken Loach.
Former MSP Sheridan has previously shown the trial his 2002 diary with the entry: “SSP People’s Festival. Friday – Monday. Must attend” written in the space for Friday, September 26.
It has earlier been alleged in court that Sheridan was at Cupid’s in Manchester with Katrine Trolle and three other people on that night, with the group returning to Glasgow by car in the early hours of the following morning.
Ms Kane, under re-examination by Advocate Depute Alex Prentice QC, told the High Court in Glasgow Sheridan was not at the People’s Festival on that Friday night or the following day.
The witness said: “Ironically, Tommy Sheridan was one of my staunchest supporters and we worked closely together. He wasn’t at the Friday night event, nor on Saturday during the day, but he was at Saturday evening and the Monday; I remember that because that is my birthday.”
Sheridan, on trial for lying under oath at his successful defamation action against the News of the World, denies all the charges against him. His wife Gail also denies perjury.
Ms Kane told the accused: “You must be the unluckiest person in the world in so far that everybody you have met over the last 25 to 30 years is either lying or conspiring against you. You must be a very unfortunate person.”
Ms Kane was asked to recall a meeting of the Scottish Socialist Party National Council, on May 28, 2006, described in court as a “traumatic event” with “footstamping and shouting”.
Party members had been asked to support a “strategy of defiance” to stop minutes of a meeting, where Sheridan allegedly confessed to visiting a swingers’ club on two occasions, being handed over to the court. Several members had received citations requesting the documents. Ms Kane said: “We were still at the point that we did not want to be seen as colluding with court. We are a party that stood for the overthrowing of the state, not obviously at this moment in time. We also did that to protect you, but it is a fact that you conveniently forget.”
Party member Alan McCombes was in prison at the time of the meeting for contempt of court for refusing to hand over the minutes of the confidential November 9 2004 executive committee meeting.
It has also emerged in court that Mr McCombes told the Sunday Herald about the outcome of that meeting, and the call for Sheridan to resign as convener, in a signed affidavit just days after it had taken place. Sheridan put to the witness: “Were you surprised to learn that the person who had went to a national newspaper four days after an executive committee and given details of the private and confidential discussion was Alan McCombes?”
The witness said: “I was surprised ... but I can understand why he would do it. You left that meeting, went to Parliament and gave press conferences. Alan probably wanted to put on record a historical account of what had happened. You don’t ask the convener to resign on a whim.”
Sheridan put to the witness that “it was quite simply cynical in the extreme” that Mr McCombes had gone to jail in a bid to keep the minutes private when he had already released the details to a newspaper.
Ms Kane said: “My opinion is that you thought you were going to lose your defamation action so you wanted the minutes in to the court so that there was a collusion with the bourgeois press to bring you down.”
Sheridan put to the witness that there wasn’t a live defamation action at the time that Alan McCombes went to the press.
Ms Kane said: “I don’t remember the exact date when you began your defamation action. All you said was that you were going to sue the News of the World.”
The trial continues.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-s...lasgow-west-11635019
The best bit IMO
Frances Curran to Tommy Sheridan
"Your biggest crime is a sell-out. You sold out your party, you sold out the people who voted for you.
"It's a disgrace that you are publicly humiliating people in this way."
Tommy Sheridan trial: columnist admits lying over sex claims
Anvar Khan admits to lying to help promote her book in latest twist to perjury trial of former socialist leader
A former News of the World columnist has admitted making up lurid allegations about the sex life of the socialist leader Tommy Sheridan, in the first of a series of revelations about his alleged adultery.
Anvar Khan told Sheridan's perjury trial in Glasgow that she lied for a frontpage story on the paper, which was written to promote a book about her sex life and to help the Sunday tabloid print further allegations about the then member of the Scottish parliament.
Cross-examined by Sheridan, who is representing himself in court, Khan admitted that the NoW article in October 2004 made several untrue allegations, including that they had "drunken sex" in her flat; that Sheridan wanted to be spanked with red PVC gloves; and that it "seemed he had done it a few times before".
Sheridan asked her: "Do you accept you were consciously feeding the paper deliberate lies?" Khan replied: "I do."
During exchanges where Khan was repeatedly accused of being a serial liar who exploited her information to get a more lucrative contract with the paper and to justify her £8,000 advance for the book, Sheridan also referred to a number of senior NoW executives. The former columnist was asked whether she knew its then editor Andy Coulson, another man called Greg Miskiw, Douglas Wight, a news editor with the paper's Scottish edition, and Glenn Mulcaire, a private investigator.
Sheridan also asked her if she knew whether the paper used private detectives and had hired them for the investigations into his personal life. She replied "no" to each question.
Khan's evidence came on the 18th day of a perjury trial where Sheridan, 46, and his wife, Gail, also 46, are accused of telling lies under oath when he won a surprise libel victory against the NoW at the court of session in Edinburgh in 2006.
Sheridan was awarded £200,000 in damages after he persuaded a jury that the NoW had wrongly accused him of visiting Cupid's sex club in Manchester and of having extramarital affairs. The couple are also accused of trying to cover up his affairs. They deny all the charges.
The article based on her book did not mention Sheridan by name, but she confirmed giving his name to Bob Bird, the then editor of the NoW's Scottish edition, in a sworn affidavit before the first article was published.
Witnesses who were Sheridan's former friends and colleagues in the Scottish Socialist party (SSP) told the jury that he admitted visiting Cupid's with Khan during an emergency meeting of the party's executive committee, two weeks after the story about her book appeared.
The court has also seen a secretly recorded video in which Sheridan can allegedly be heard bitterly regretting making his confession.
Earlier in the trial the court heard that Sheridan tried to get his SSP colleagues to lie for him.
Today, the court was shown a series of emails between Khan and Bird, where they are renegotiating her freelance contract with the paper in the weeks leading up to Sheridan's libel trial.
In one email, Bird said she could "double her dosh" if she agreed to try and entrap Sheridan by getting him to confess in a taped telephone conversation. Khan said she had no memory of receiving that email. In an email, Khan wrote to Bird: "If I'm happy with my new contract, I'm prepared to rethink my position regarding talking to your QC." Khan told the court she was advised to use that language by the National Union of Journalists to secure a better contract.
The jury heard that Khan's semi-fictional book, Pretty Wild, was produced by small Edinburgh-based publishers, Black and White, which has close links with the NoW, shortly before the paper published Khan's claims in 2004.
Several weeks later, Bird published further lurid claims by another woman, Fiona Maguire, which named Sheridan and claimed he had taken part in a "kinky four-in-a-bed orgy".
During two days of evidence, Khan insisted she had gone to Cupid's in September 2002. But she was repeatedly pressed to explain why she had given three different dates on four different occasions for the visit, including late 2001 and November 2002, at Sheridan's libel trial, in her sworn statement to the NoW and in an interview with the police.
McBride asked her: "The truth of the matter is that for the last two days, you've been like a fish on a hook, and you have been wriggling every time someone tries to get you to give a straight answer?" She replied: "No, that's not right."
The trial continues.
Thanks for keeping us up to date...but what a waste of money.I do have respect for Tommy for getting rid of the Sheriff Officers powers and other good works he has done. I realise he has to do this, and he believes he is right , but the cost in Scotland, at a time when many council workers are losing their jobs, is too much. Is it ego over his socialistic views? He has done the jail before, maybe he should give up now. I am sure he would get more respect. No pun intended
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He has done the jail before, maybe he should give up now. I am sure he would get more respeckers
No doubt. That tan's alluring to a lifer.
Tommy should have fallen on his sword 
when the NOTW published. You are right Sky its a shocking waist of money. And yes he was fantastic at fighting the sheriffs officers etc so were a lot of the people that he is saying are lying scabs. The whole thing is really sad. 
when the NOTW published. You are right Sky its a shocking waist of money. And yes he was fantastic at fighting the sheriffs officers etc so were a lot of the people that he is saying are lying scabs. The whole thing is really sad.
It is ding dong....and by the way bateman if you alter my posts again, you will get a smacked bum !
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Red PVC gloves optional..
Sheridan gung-ho about lying in court, trial hears
Tommy Sheridan was “gung-ho about being prepared to commit perjury” in order to win a defamation case against a newspaper that alleged he had visited a swingers’ club, a court heard yesterday.
Alan McCombes, who co-founded the Scottish Socialist Party, told the High Court in Glasgow that Sheridan admitted to him in late 2002 that he had visited the club twice but insisted there was “no way the information would come out publicly” as those who had gone with him were “100% solid, close friends”.
Mr McCombes, 55, said that after an article about an unnamed MSP visiting a sex club appeared in the News of the World on October 31, 2004, he was “incredulous” to discover that one of the people who had allegedly been at the club with Sheridan was a News of the World columnist, Anvar Khan.
Mr McCombes, who was then the party’s press and policy officer, met Sheridan – who along with his wife Gail is on trial accused of lying under oath during the 2006 defamation case against the News of the World – the day after the newspaper published the story and said he was “shocked” by his attitude.
He told the court: “It became clear in the course of the discussion that he was prepared to go all the way in terms of challenging this article.
“He used terminology like he would destroy Anvar Khan. He was very gung-ho about going to court, about being prepared to lie in court, commit perjury in order to win his case.”
Under cross-examination by Sheridan, who is representing himself, Mr McCombes said the politician was capable of “re-writing a history of events”.
JK Rowling couldn’t make up the kind of stories you have made up. It is Harry Potter and Lord of the Rings combined<cite>Alan McCombes</cite>
He told Sheridan: “Look me in the eye. You’re a liar. You are a pathological liar.
“JK Rowling couldn’t make up the kind of stories you have made up. It is Harry Potter and Lord of the Rings combined.”
Mr McCombes, who said he had known Sheridan for about 26 years, said he was first told about Sheridan’s alleged visit to Cupid’s club in Manchester by fellow SSP member Keith Baldassara in late 2002.
He said he telephoned Sheridan to arrange a meeting and the two discussed the allegation in the members’ lounge at Glasgow City Chambers, when he put to Sheridan that the politician had visited a swingers’ club twice .
Mr McCombes said: “His response was to accept it, to acknowledge the fact that he had attended it. I expressed my concerns about it. My concern was that his public presentation was in sharp conflict with his private behaviour.
“He presented himself quite deliberately and consciously as a squeaky-clean politician who constantly referred to his relationship with Gail and who was seen, I think, as almost the Daniel O’Donnell of Scottish politics, someone who was very clean.
“I believed his activities were more akin to the lifestyle of a premier league footballer than with somebody in leadership of a political party. I was concerned that if this story appeared in the media then that would damage him and the party would become collateral damage.”
The day after the News of the World article appeared, Mr McCombes said he and Mr Baldassara met Sheridan to discuss the publication. He said: “It was a stalemate. Tommy wanted to do it his way. My attitude is sex scandals come and go. The dust will settle and people will start to judge you again on the basis of your politics. The worst thing you can do is lie.”
Mr McCombes told how he had given a sworn statement to the Sunday Herald in 2004 giving some details of a meeting where Sheridan is alleged to have admitted to various party members that he had visited a swingers’ club.
In reply to Sheridan, Mr McCombes told the court: “By that stage I had concluded you were a pathological liar who was capable not just of telling a few lies to protect yourself but rewriting a history of events, a whole fantastical series of events.”
Sheridan put it to him that “privately you were sticking the knife in my back” in going to the press. Mr McCombes replied: “Privately you were sticking the knife in the backs of other people who have stuck by you through thick and thin.”
Sheridan and his wife Gail, both 46, deny the charges.
The trial continues.
The charges
The Sheridans, both 46, from Glasgow, are accused of lying under oath during his successful 2006 defamation action against the News of the World. The indictment contains three charges in total, two of which are broken down into a number of sub-sections.
Sheridan denies lying to the courts during his case, which followed the newspaper’s claims that he was an adulterer who had visited a swingers’ club. It is alleged he made false statements as a witness in the defamation action on July 21, 2006.
He also denies another charge of attempting to persuade a witness to commit perjury shortly before the 23-day legal action got under way.
Gail denies making false statements on July 31, 2006, after being sworn in as a witness in the civil jury trial at the Court of Session in Edinburgh.
Wonder if David Ashby (former MP) is watching this case.
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Wonder if David Ashby (former MP) is watching this case.
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David Ashby
Another twit... They should just say ... this is a non story .... it would be forgotten in no timeWas it William hague they said almost the same thing about the other month ... just googled that ... Yup Hague said toooooo much but it still vanished and is forgotten in no time .
Indeed! Private Eye gave this one a mention too.
News of the World editor 'stripped to boxer shorts' for Sheridan tape
A witness at ex-MSP's perjury trial said Scottish boss Bob Bird took his clothes off while a £200,000 deal was done.
By Lesley Kinney
05 November 2010 15:34 GMT
The Scottish editor of a paper at the centre of the Tommy Sheridan perjury trial stripped to his boxer shorts while watching a tape allegedly incriminating the ex-MSP, a court heard.
George McNeilage said he decided to offer a "secret" tape of a meeting between himself and Mr Sheridan to the News of the World after his childhood friend sold a story to the Daily Record newspaper.
Mr Sheridan gave an interview to the Scottish paper after his successful defamation case against the News of the World, denouncing his former Scottish Socialist Party colleagues, including Colin Fox, Rosie Kane, Carolyn Leckie and Frances Curran as "scabs".
Mr McNeilage told the High Court in Glasgow that he felt "physically sick" when he saw the article, and decided to contact the News of the World about the tape.
He said: "He took £30,000 from the Record to call good, honest people scabs. I gave it to the beast. Tit for tat."
Mr McNeilage said he arranged for Scottish News of the World editor Bob Bird to come to his house to see the tape.
He said he made the editor strip to his boxer shorts while he was inside his home, adding that he wanted to check he was not wearing a wire because he "didn't trust him".
'Take off your clothes'
When he arrived Mr McNeilage said he held up a sign reading: "Don't speak, take your clothes off."
He said: "He just did it, took his clothes off. He was in his boxer shorts. I put them (Bird's clothes) in a black bag and took them round the back.
"I was just playing a game. I had the News of the World editor standing in my living room in his boxer shorts. It was just a bizarre situation."
He said he then played him the tape, and asked for £250,000 for it. He said: "If I'm going to be dragged into this, there's no way I'm going to be giving them that as a freebie and he got £200 grand for all the lies he told in the first place. He just whistled."
Mr McNeilage said the News of the World later agreed to pay £200,000 for the tape and signed a contract with Mr McNeilage.
The Advocate Depute said: "There has been a suggestion that you and Alan McCombes scripted the transcript with an actor."
Mr McNeilage replied: "That's absurd. He knows it's him on the tape."
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Bloody hell - £200k
I wonder if he paid tax on his earnings Reference:
"Don't speak, take your clothes off."
Was that a quote from Tommy on one of his jaunts?
Hmmnn they are all lying and counter lying.. etc Load of old bollix
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Was that a quote from Tommy on one of his jaunts?
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"I had the News of the World editor standing in my living room in his boxer shorts."
He could have doubled his money if he`d taped that.
"Ode to joy" if he had filmed that
Trial delayed for unwell Tommy Sheridan
Mr Sheridan did not appear in court on Tuesday
The Tommy Sheridan perjury trial has been delayed until Friday after the former MSP became unwell.
Judge Lord Bracadale told the jury at the High Court in Glasgow that Mr Sheridan's doctor had certified him as unfit to attend court.
The former Scottish Socialist Party (SSP) leader and his wife Gail, both 46, deny perjury.
They are accused of lying during his successful defamation case against the News of the World in 2006.
Mr Sheridan won £200,000 in damages after the newspaper printed allegations about his private life, claiming he was an adulterer who had visited a swingers club.
Following a police investigation, the former MSP and his wife were charged with perjury.
Mr Sheridan was not in the dock beside his wife Gail when the trial called on Tuesday morning.
Lord Bracadale briefly addressed the jury to tell them no more evidence would be heard until Friday, at the earliest.
The judge said: "I have to tell you that Mr Sheridan is unwell. You will see that he is not in court.
"Yesterday afternoon he went to see his doctor who certified that he is unfit to attend court at present.
"The doctor will review the position on Thursday. Mr Sheridan himself wishes, if at all possible, to continue the trial on Friday."
Lord Bracadale concluded: "In these circumstances, there is nothing else to do, but adjourn the case until Friday morning."
It was not revealed what illness Mr Sheridan was suffering from.
It is alleged that the former MSP made false statements as a witness in his defamation action against the News of the World on 21 July 2006.
He also denies another charge of attempting to persuade a witness to commit perjury shortly before the 23-day legal action got under way.
Mrs Sheridan denies making false statements on 31 July 2006, after being sworn in as a witness in the civil jury trial at the Court of Session in Edinburgh.