The Trainspotting author hit out at the Labour administration on City of Edinburgh Council after it temporarily closed the People's Story.
Irvine Welsh has blasted a decision to close a museum dedicated to working class life in his home city.
The decision prompted outrage from locals and has led to the launch of the Save the People’s Story campaign, which described the museum as a "vital part of this city’s social fabric".Welsh, a former council worker, lent his support on social media today and claimed the closure was another example of "all references to social class have to be airbrushed out of popular discourse".
The lunacy of this is that nobody with any semblance of intelligence knows that this is going to end well. Yet we persist with it. If you want to build luxury hotels in city centre properties, start with Holyrood palace."
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