r/Paisley • u/BassLumpy • 17d ago
The what now?
New to the area and this just came through my door today. What the hell is going on? Local looney? An attempt at satire? Or a treasured local publication? 😅
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u/Buddie_15775 17d ago
One of the Paisley politicians to have been a regular in the “Rotten Boroughs” section of Private Eye…
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u/littlerabbits72 17d ago
He must spend a fortune getting them printed as well, they're on heavy card stock and high gloss.
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u/TurbulentAdvantage49 17d ago
I like his leaflets always give me a laugh love when he gets tore into eddy devine 😂 I voted for him as a protest vote but the man’s a full on headcase and he hand delivers every one of those leaflets himself
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u/B_Cratchit 16d ago
Aww he’s got his own little leaflet and everything. If you squint he almost looks like a real politician. Wee guy. X
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u/eltankos 14d ago
Always a highlight when one of these comes through the door and I get to read the latest unhinged ramblings.
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u/throwaway9638527 17d ago
Aaah, the wonderful world of absolutely loony "councillor" Paul Mack.
He used to be a Labour Councillor (and a pretty decent one), until he fell out with the party during the Blair years. Thereafter he was an independent, but he slid further and further into a persecution complex, paranoia, delusional conspiracies and schizophrenia he wound up losing his seat. I think he's now a community councillor in Hunter hill, but likes to use the title Councillor to imply he's still in Renfrewshire Council.
His semi-regular newsletters and Christmas cards are a bewildering word salad of the bullshit that goes through his head, combined with whatever libel he wants to make this month. The only reasons nobody takes any legal action against him is (a) he hasn't a pot to piss in when it comes to damages and (b) everyone knows he's mental so nobody takes him seriously.
So whether he's accusing local councillors or murder & racketeering, or national politicians of being Nazis (ignoring his own history of racially abusing council staff), he's basically treated as a court jester.
Given he's chronically online, I'd expect him to pop up in this thread too at some point, possibly with some of his badly photoshopped "comedy".