The £1.75million awarded to a man abused when he was a child by his foster carer can’t erase the pain he suffered.
Council leaders removed him from a care home and placed him under the same roof as a predator, where he stayed for five years until he was old enough to leave.
His compensation will never mend the broken promises or realise the ambitions that will be forever unfulfilled because of how he was treated.
But hopefully the money will help him somehow create a new positive chapter in his life.
The bravery shown by the man and the commitment of his legal team will be encouraging to other victims of abuse who have had their lives ruined.
However, Glasgow City Council’s attempt to mitigate the damage was a shameful bid to swerve some of the blame.
Their argument that he would have suffered lasting psychological damage from already being in care before he was delivered to his abuser was disgraceful.
How poetic that in trying to get off the hook for the original order to pay £1.3million they end up having to cough up an extra £450,000.
Their desperate attempt to deny full liability was ill-advised and ended up costing the taxpayer even more cash.
It would appear that accepting responsibility has gone out of fashion at another level of government.
Tories must find spine.. and quick
Boris Johnson in India looked like an extra from one of those old Carry On comedy films.
Even from that distance, he caused a farcical Commons U-turn and carried the stench of a Downing Street scandal with him.
But the real laugh was Johnson saying that he would carry on as Prime Minister.
It takes some brass neck for a PM who has been fined for breaking his own laws to think that he can continue with this travesty.
But Johnson has never been short of self-belief and by vowing to keep on keeping on, he is trying to write his own history.
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