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AN IRVINE councillor has refused to apologise for calling out a Conservative colleague dubbed “the laziest councillor in Scotland”.

The IFP in KZN Legislature has joined calls for the Cogta MEC Sipho Hlomuka to take disciplinary action against an IFP councillor, who allegedly assaulted two ANC female councillors at the Inkosi Langalibalele Local Municipality earlier this week.

Douglas Ross has previously said he regrets saying he wanted to see tougher enforcement on 'Gypsy Travellers' COMMENTS have been unearthed in which Scottish Tory leader Douglas Ross expressed his frustration at supposedly having to “bend over backwards for [an] ethnic minority”. Ross made the comments while serving as a councillor in Moray in 2013, four years before he was elected to represent the constituency at Westminster. After his election in 2017, in which he beat the SNP’s Angus Robertson, Ross gave an interview to Core Politics in which he said he would “like to see toug...

http://shet.news/6kciv Copied! ALLEGATIONS that a Shetland councillor had accused council officials of lying have been dismissed following an investigation by the Ethical Standards Commissioner. Shetland Central councillor Ian Scott was reported to the watchdog by council convener Malcolm Bell and leader Steven Coutts following a verbal clash in the council chamber on 9 September last year. 13 of 14Adverts Scott was also accused of shouting in the council chamber, continually talking over the chair of the meeting and making further allegations against council officials. Following a fou...