Details of the SNP’s tax grab plans have been revealed, with Argyll and Bute losing out on £1.2 million. This is how the SNP’s attainment fund – which takes council tax proceeds from one area to invest in another – are planned to play out. This is an insult to local democracy.
As well as we in Argyll and Bute having to pay on average an extra £300 a year more in council tax bills, much of that money won't even be spent here in Argyll and Bute.
Hard pressed Argyll and Bute tax payers will now be funding councils in Glasgow and West Dumbartonshire. Keep in mind that the SNP are hoping to win control of those two council areas, it is very convenient that they will funnel in extra cash at the expence of Argyll and Bute's tax payers.
How SNP politicians both at a local and national level can honestly say that the people of Argyll and Bute are better served by the SNP's harebrained scheme of taking money away from our council, which desperately needs funding for roads, bin uplifts and social care and give it to other councils is beyond me.
It's high time our local MP forgot about his oath of loyalty he swore to the SNP, and for that matter the local SNP councillors stopped blindly following their party line and put the people of Argyll and Bute first.
Alastair Redman