No Team GB Petition presented to the Scottish Parliament

Written by Smithy on March 7th, 2009

On Tuesday the 3rd March the petition opposing a Great Britian fotball team for the 2012 Olympics was presented to the Scottish Parliament Petitions committee.

A few footsoldiers were present to see Scottish democracy in action.  Prior to the No Team GB petition being presented, 2 others were presented - each receiving some  arguments for and against them.  It was not looking good...

Thankfully the petition was presented and not one comment against it was made.  Even the Labour MSP Bill Buttler commented "I do not see the need for a GB football team.  One Fifa executive, like one Parliament, cannot bind another Fifa executive in the future".  This was a suprising response given the previous form of Labout MP's who seem to be under pressure to keep up Gordon Browns TeamGB mantra.

MSPs agreed to seek further information from Fifa as to the status of a GB football team.

Speaking afterwards, Martin Riddell, a footsolier from Edinburgh Tartan Army commented: "Fifa just can't give any guarantees at all. It's not just the Scotland team that we are worried about – we don't want to lose an England team, we don't want to lose a Northern Ireland team and we don't want to lose a Welsh team either."

Simon Johnston, one of the NoTeamGB.com spokesmen said this about Gordon Brown: "He's putting his weight behind this because this is a big flagship for the London 2012 Olympics. They see it as a money-making exercise and they're not going to give up on it but we would like them to come out and say no, because the consequences are dire. This is a real threat to Scotland, England, Wales and Northern Ireland international teams."

Once the Parliament receives communications from Fifa the petition wil be brought back to the committee for further consideration before being put to the entire Scottish Parliament.

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