Conservative student Joe Cawley, who readers (and Lothian and Borders Police) may recall, is organising a Tory outing to an exclusive Edinburgh nightspot tomorrow evening. Scrapbook cannot help but wonder…
Will it culminate in a late-night trip up some scaffolding, a trip in a police car or both?
Regular readers may remember the tale of Joe Cawley, the student Tory whose drunken scaffold climbing landed him in trouble with the police. The story was made all the more fun when accompanied by a snap of the chair of Edinburgh Conservative Future in full-on tweedy hunting gear, shotguns thrown over his shoulders Lock Stock-style.
The photo in question had been sneaked to Scrapbook and Cawley’s Tory chums fired out the standard barrage of ‘take that photograph down now’ emails. Recipients of this legal whimpering included the local student press and the Edinburgh-based Deadline Picture Agency, who ran the story as “Top Tory toff fined for drunken antics”.
Unfortunately for Cawley, however, fate intervened once more. One day after the photo was removed from Deadline’s website, their eagle-eyed photographer happened to spot our hero walking past the Sherrif’s Court in Edinburgh.
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A student was seen climbing a multi-storey scaffold in a residential area of the Scottish capital’s prestigious New Town in the early hours of this morning. Unfortunately for Joe Cawley, the Chair of Edinburgh Conservative Future, the people that saw him were the Lothian and Borders Police.
To compound matters, he had already had his collar felt by the cops minutes earlier as he staggered home from a top Edinburgh club. Exasperated police sent for a van and Cawley was arrested and subjected to the full nee-naw-nee-naw treatment.
A drunken arrest and a £40 fine.
Well. It could be worse.
