West Dunbartonshire Council’s ban on commenting on Pride Month
This month we have raised the LGBTQ+ flag at our Church Street office to mark Pride Month. Pride Month celebrates and commemorates all within the LGBTQ+ community and we wish all a very happy pride month.
That was the message West Dunbartonshire Council sent out to the community at the beginning of Pride Month. They’re saying in it that they’re wishing all within the LGBTQ community a “very happy Pride Month”, but they sound as if they are swithering as to whether they really mean it or not. Maybe they just wish some of the 300 or so residents who had a comment to make because the Council added the following: “West Dunbartonshire Council limited who can comment on this post.” that’s WDC over the back. The maybes aye, maybes naw crew are too spineless to tell us what they really think. So, those residents whose comments were spiked whether they liked it or not or, more importantly in what’s supposed to be a democracy, were gagged without consultation or a committee decision. I should know this true. They’ve been trying to gag me for years now ever since they lied that I had interupted one of their meetings. I didn’t. I just asked them to speak loudly enough for the press and public to get some idea of what they were up to next. Such as voting for their own salary increases while keeping the lid on the care workers’ wages. Oh, and paying a press officer with little or no public relations experence a stonking £130,000 a year for answering telephone calls about bins which had not been uplifted, potholes in the roads and uncut grass and weeds being allowed to grow out of control in open spaces. If you wanted to know where your council tax money goes, now you have the answer. Bill Heaney
West Dunbartonshire Council have limited who can comment on this post.
NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde
Hospital sites across NHSGGC are flying the rainbow flag throughout the LGBTQ+ Pride month of June in celebration.
Our staff will also be joining colleagues from other health boards and emergency services at the Glasgow Pride march on 19th July 2025.