TWO leading entrepreneurs have been branded "idiots" by Jack McConnell after they criticised him in public. Rail firm boss Janette Anderson and software specialist Ian Graham attacked the FirstMinister in a meeting of Scottish business people at Holyrood last Friday, when he had been expecting to be praised for cutting business rates.
Anderson, who runs First Engineering and is one of our top businesswomen, said the Executive did not help Scottish companies compete in the rest of the UK or "fly the flag" for Scottish business.
But McConnell slammed the pair at a Labour MSPs meeting this week. One shocked MSP said: "It was remarkable. Jack was asked how he thought the conference had gone and he said it was fine until 'those two idiots' stood up". It really isn't the kind of thing the First Minister should say
about two leading Scots business people just because they expressed an opinion which he didn't like."
Not good politics either. The Scottish business community will not forget it.
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