A CONTROVERSIAL councillor told another elected member if she wasn’t in politics “she would be in the holding room of The Jeremy Kyle Show”.
Paul Mack – who has recently returned from a seven-month ban – was up to his old tricks at Thursday’s full council meeting.
The veteran councillor launched a tirade against the Labour Party, accusing the group of being “full of anti-Semites”, before personally attacking Councillor Karen Kennedy.
He said: “If Karen Kennedy wasn’t here, she would be in the holding room of The Jeremy Kyle Show.”
The independent Paisley Southeast member had been speaking about the future of Ferguslie Park’s Hillview Nursery.
He told Labour councillors they “owe the parents an apology for the way you conduct yourselves”.
Councillor Kennedy told nursery parents in a post online: “Despite claims in the meeting I’m using you for political reasons that is so far beyond the truth and quite frankly offensive.”
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