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Post-Brexit, the SNP has been accused of delaying export paperwork for Scottish fishermen in order to push their pursuit for an independent Scotland. Such are the apparent delays, fishermen are now being forced to wait five times longer to export produce to the continent. With checks performed by Holyrood, Scottish Tories have accused the SNP of not “lifting a finger” to help Scottish fishermen.
SCOTLAND S council tax debt mountain has doubled in size in five years as fears grow that the coronavirus pandemic will make a credit crisis even worse. Official figures seen by the Herald show that in 2019/20 the amount of council tax that remained outstanding amounted to £108m in March, 2020. In 2015/16 the debt was standing at £59.743m. The amount currently owed in council tax in Scotland which has led to tens of thousands of households being pursued is enough to pay for nearly four NHS Nightingale Hospitals. It comes as Scots face huge council tax rises to fill a £500m local authority funding black hole.
Dumfries and Galloway councillors want £500 payment for local authority workers for lockdown efforts
Members have agreed for council staff to receive a similar payment to that previously announced for NHS and social care staff
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Dumfries and Galloway Council leader Elaine Murray and depute leader Rob Davidson.
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Jacob Rees-Mogg says failures of the SNP have driven Aberdeen councillors away JACOB Rees-Mogg has waded into Aberdeen City Council’s efforts to bypass the Scottish Parliament and get funding directly from Westminster. This week councillors at the administration voted by 22 to 19 to write to Scottish Secretary Alister Jack requesting money is sent directly to them. They also voted to approach the Convention of Scottish Local Authorities (Cosla) to tell them they’d like to receive any granted without it first going through Edinburgh. The council, co-led by Tory Douglas Lumsden and former Labour representative Jenny Laing, has been accused of planning a “massive attack on devolution”.
Aberdeen council has voted to ask the UK Government for direct funding. ABERDEEN council has voted to write to the UK Government to ask for direct funding, bypassing Holyrood and the devolution settlement. The motion passed in a council meeting last night by 22 votes to 19. The vote ruled that chief executive Angela Scott should write to Scottish Secretary Alister Jack for grant funding. Scott will also approach the Convention of Scottish Local Authorities (Cosla) to stress that Aberdeen council would prefer any granted money to bypass Edinburgh. Aberdeen’s council is co-led by the Conservative Douglas Lumsden and former Labour councillor Jenny Laing. Labour suspended nine of the city’s councillors from the party after they formed a coalition with the Tories, meaning Laing now sits as an independent.