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Now there is another one , Labour Midlothian councillor Bryan Pottinger has been stripped of the Labour whip, on the 11 December , after what is now a second complaint that has been made about his behaviour.

This is the second time an allegation has been made about him for two separate incidents and from two separate females.

The Standards Commission for Scotland released their findings/conclusion on the first incident in 2023 relating to him.

In 2023 a female councillor had alleged Pottinger had “behaved disrespectfully” and “had harassed her” in “making an “inappropriate comment about her underwear during a verbal exchange between them at a local event”

It was determined by the Standards Commission for Scotland that “he was found not to have breached the Councillors’ Code of Conduct at a Hearing held in Dalkeith on 23 August 2023″.

Helen Donaldson, Standards Commission Member and Chair of the Hearing Panel, said:

“The Panel found both the Complainer (the female councillor) and Respondent, Cllr Pottinger, to be credible and reliable witnesses”

“Having heard from various other individuals who had been at the event, the Panel was unable to conclude, on balance, that it was more likely than not that Cllr Pottinger had made the comment as alleged. A breach of the Code therefore could not be found.”

Now there is a new complaint in relation to him , Pottinger, allegedly “making sexual comments to another female, as in a young female cleaner”.

“The latest allegation relates to an incident earlier this year in the council headquarters at Buccleuch Street, Dalkeith”.

So this second incident allegedly occurred “Earlier this year” but why then have Labour only removed the whip on the 11 December from Pottinger” so yet again no prompt action by Labour or Sarwar.

(BBC Scotland sleeping on the job again with (for) Labour , as I typed in “BBC Midlothian councillor Bryan Pottinger” on Google and nowt came up from the BBC , Quelle surprise.).

STV News had a headline in Nov 2024 “Councillor facing second standards hearing over ‘inappropriate comments” (they chose to copy the BBC in having no party name in their headline, actually their article on 4 November does not mention ONCE the party that he, Pottinger, is in , top class journalism STV News, NOT).

Second complaint against him by two separate females regarding his inappropriate behaviour.

Also this is now the second hearing in 18 Months with The Standards Commission for Scotland for the same Labour councillor (second hearing to be held in January 2025 apparently).

You know I’m thinking the BBC in Scotland may have to offer a lot of overtime to their political Editors and lackeys aka Researchers to seek out #SNPBAD stories to distract attention away from what seems to be a succession of #LABOURBAD stories in their, BBC Scotland’s, continued campaign to try to get Sarwar elected as the next FM in Scotland.