Dear All
Recently a blogger asked me about an SNP defection.
The SNP Councillor turned out to be John McNamee, who departed to the Labour Party.
When I viewed the story over at Yapping Yousuf’s blog, my first thought never ran to John McNamee, I didn’t know who he was, but to Alex Dingwall of Glasgow.
Alex Dingwall is the Councillor for Kelvin/Maryhill.
He was the SNP finance spokesman at the council and a member of the party for 31 years.
He has decided that his political career is best served by joining another party, in this case the Lib Dems.
I personally thought he would jump to the Labour Party since he has a lot of friends there.
I wish him well in his new political career.
In departing the premises he vented his frustration at the Glasgow SNP Group and the SNP leadership over several issues.
He said;
“After 31 years of membership with the SNP, the decision to leave has not been an easy one, but the recent threats to take away control of schools and care for the elderly from local authorities show the SNP simply doesn’t trust its councillors, preferring instead to govern local communities by ministerial decree.”
I think he was a little hasty, the idea that the SNP are going to take schools out of local authority control is simply not a runner and care for the elderly also being removed would probably cause more problems than it solved.
Although both policies were floated for discussion, it was merely that, I can’t see the SNP Government doing anything at this time but to help streamline the current systems to make them work better.
And that isn’t a resigning matter.
As to the SNP Group in Glasgow City Council, the gauntlet has been thrown down; they should step up to the plate and explain their vision of how an SNP administration would run the Council.
Rash decision by Alex Dingwall which I suspect he will regret in time but his choice to make.
And food for thought for the SNP leadership, but not lunch that is off the menu at present.
Yours sincerely
George Laird
The Campaign for Human Rights at Glasgow University
Recently a blogger asked me about an SNP defection.
The SNP Councillor turned out to be John McNamee, who departed to the Labour Party.
When I viewed the story over at Yapping Yousuf’s blog, my first thought never ran to John McNamee, I didn’t know who he was, but to Alex Dingwall of Glasgow.
Alex Dingwall is the Councillor for Kelvin/Maryhill.
He was the SNP finance spokesman at the council and a member of the party for 31 years.
He has decided that his political career is best served by joining another party, in this case the Lib Dems.
I personally thought he would jump to the Labour Party since he has a lot of friends there.
I wish him well in his new political career.
In departing the premises he vented his frustration at the Glasgow SNP Group and the SNP leadership over several issues.
He said;
“After 31 years of membership with the SNP, the decision to leave has not been an easy one, but the recent threats to take away control of schools and care for the elderly from local authorities show the SNP simply doesn’t trust its councillors, preferring instead to govern local communities by ministerial decree.”
I think he was a little hasty, the idea that the SNP are going to take schools out of local authority control is simply not a runner and care for the elderly also being removed would probably cause more problems than it solved.
Although both policies were floated for discussion, it was merely that, I can’t see the SNP Government doing anything at this time but to help streamline the current systems to make them work better.
And that isn’t a resigning matter.
As to the SNP Group in Glasgow City Council, the gauntlet has been thrown down; they should step up to the plate and explain their vision of how an SNP administration would run the Council.
Rash decision by Alex Dingwall which I suspect he will regret in time but his choice to make.
And food for thought for the SNP leadership, but not lunch that is off the menu at present.
Yours sincerely
George Laird
The Campaign for Human Rights at Glasgow University
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