SHONA Craven’s piece on Baroness Mone was very good (Mone’s excuses for lying are blowing in the wind, Dec 19). As a born-and-raised Dennistoun man, if I was asked if there were anything that gave my old area a bad name, my answer would be Michelle Mone.
All in the independence movement know David Cameron gave her a place in the Lords because of her No support. She was a woman who called anyone who disagreed with her a moron or loser.
When I think of some of the people Dennistoun has produced – actor Bill Paterson, comedians Rikki Fulton and Dorothy Paul (pictured), singer Marie Lawrie (Lulu) and one of the world’s greatest architects, Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Michelle Mone is an embarrassment.
If the baroness believes that the British establishment will give her help or support in her present situation, she is greatly mistaken, because they do not consider her to be one of their own.
Bobby Brennan
Castlemilk
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