Scottish Labour starts to make noise about local government cuts
The Scottish Labour Party organised a lobby of the Scottish Government Cabinet meeting in Clydebank last week, to protest against the SNP government’s cuts of £350 millions in local authority funding. This week the Glasgow City Council Labour Group is staging a lobby outside the Scottish Parliament, to protest at the SNP’s cut of £133 millions in funding for Glasgow, which will cost around 3,000 jobs. This is progress compared to muttering about underfunding and but getting on with ‘managing’ local authorities on a reduced budget anyway. So too does Scottish Labour Party leader Kezia Dugdale’s...