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Coins and Scottish bank notes
COUNCILLORS in Argyll and Bute have become the first to defy the SNP-Green Scottish government’s council tax freeze.
The rural council, led by a coalition of Liberal Democrat, Tory and independent councillors, chose on Thursday night to increase council tax by 10 per cent rather than accept its share of the £147 million that the Scottish government has offered councils in compensation.
The last national council tax freeze lasted over a decade, during which 20,000 local authority jobs were lost as the Scottish government faced repeated criticism from town halls that the policy was underfunded.
Years of underfunding are eroding Scotland’s local services and deepening inequality in communities, says VINCE MILLS
It is time to stop tolerating the governing elites incompetence which makes our lives a daily misery, argues MATT KERR
