SNP health secretary slammed over Oasis ticket fiasco

To Scotland, where the SNP’s newest health secretary has found himself in a rather large, Oasis-sized mess. At the weekend, Neil Gray was called out by the Sunday Mail for taking his eye off his day job and attempting to buy tickets to see the newly-reformed band during a conference event on Alzheimer’s disease. Mr S is rather unsurprised to learn Gray knows a thing or two about the Importance of Being Idle…

The initial story reported how, after Glasgow University’s Terry Quinn had finished a heartfelt speech on dementia, Scotland’s health secretary looked up from his phone to confess: ‘I’m in the queue to buy Oasis tickets on multiple devices. Hope is very important… that I get these tickets.’ Gray further admitted that he was ‘half a world away’ from securing gig access during the Alzheimer’s event. Talk about flippant, eh?

Yet rather curiously the health secretary took umbrage with the story after its publication.