I was listening to the radio yesterday in the car and Cllr Willie Young came on in an interview regarding the current 27/50 million pound cuts (I mean savings - haha) in the council’s budget. He again called for Council leader Kate Dean’s resignation. Fair enough, those in control need to take responsibility but he, I feel, negated his statement with his qualification, not word for word, but along the lines of… “We are trying to move on but until she goes that’s impossible.”
Well, how exactly are you trying to move on? Do we have a plan from Labour on what to do? Were Labour even there when the accounts commission gave their verdict and suggestions? How exactly is Kate Dean staying in control stopping you from ‘moving on’?
It’s the lack of movement on the part of the Labour party that’s stopping the council from ‘moving on’. The finance secretary John Swinney was in town this week telling the council to shut it, get together, work together and fix the bloody mess. It’s a pity John Swinney isn’t a Labour politician as it seems that the Labour party, at least in Aberdeen, give other parties views and suggestions no weight at all. The SNP have been consistently trying to make things better, albeit through tough decisions.
If anything the SNP should be the ones floundering in this, they overspent by shedloads themselves, as well as the inherited years of overspend which, although the SNP tried to point it out, got swept to the side and ignored on the most part. Instead it’s the Labour party who are coming from this badly with a reputation for finger pointing, inaction and ignorance(of others). They should be saying “We told you not to vote for the SNP, but you did, however here’s how we can make it better until the next election…” NOT “They did it, it wasn’t us, oh you voted them in, it’s their mess let them deal with it, don’t cut this, don’t cut that, oh, no we don’t have an alternative…” etc.
Labour, it’s been said before in this blog, you are turning off the voters, you should be on the rise here with what is a clear opportunity to grab votes by ACTION. I fear however that the SNP are riding artificially high at a time when they should be in decline due to your bitching. Cut it out!
