LAST week I wrote about how Glasgow City Councillors would have the opportunity to take real and meaningful action to address the city’s cleansing crisis by supporting

Conservative proposals to scrap the bulk uplift charge – a punitive and counterproductive penalty that is causing fly tipping to sky rocket across Glasgow, with all the misery that entails for our communities.

For weeks the Labour Party in Glasgow have been echoing our calls for action – duplicating our campaigns around the city’s waste crisis. 

READ MORE: Tory bid to scrap bulk uplift charges in Glasgow fails

They say that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery but unlike the Conservatives in Glasgow, Labour’s opposition to the SNP’s disastrous cleansing record only extends so far as warm words.

Last month Sir Keir Starmer tweeted that the dire situation on our streets was the result of a “failure of leadership from the SNP Council”, but only a few weeks later his councillors were lining up behind that same SNP leadership to vote down our attempts to bring forward meaningful change to address Glasgow’s cleansing crisis. 

And after Susan Aitken’s carcrash STV interview, Glasgow Labour MSP Paul Sweeney was quick to grab a newspaper headline by speaking out against the SNP’s “brazen denial of reality” which “exposes a big failure of leadership that harms every Glaswegian”. 

Yet only days later his colleagues endorsed Susan Aitken’s failed leadership.
Time and time again the SNP can rely on Glasgow Labour to bail them out when the going gets tough. It’s shameful. 

Glasgow Times: Susan Aitken's STV interview was widely criticised Susan Aitken's STV interview was widely criticised

Let no one be under any illusion – there is only one party of opposition to the SNP in the City Chambers and that is the Glasgow Conservatives. It was my group of councillors that attempted to bring forward a motion of no confidence in Susan Aitken last week which was ruled out of order by Glasgow’s Labour Lord Provost. 

No other party has the guts to speak the truth to power in Glasgow and reject the SNP’s disastrous mishandling of our city.

Teaming up last week with the SNP’s Labour lapdogs were of course the Scottish Greens, a group of idelogical zealots so far detached from the pursuit of environmentalism that they would rather see bags of rubbish and abandoned fly tipping pile up in our parks and green spaces than stand up to their nationalist bosses. 

Nicola Sturgeon might have welcomed Patrick Harvie into her Government, but that coalition of chaos is nothing compared to the Yellow-Red-Green coalition of misery that is ruling Glasgow City Council and running it into the ground.

 

So the next time you see a mattress lying on the street for days uncollected – know that it was the Labour Party that backed up the SNP in turning this city into the fly tipping capital of Britain. 

The next time you see a row of overflowing bins in our residential neighbourhoods – know that it was the Labour Party that refused to back Conservative budget proposals to reverse the SNP’s bin collection cuts. 

And the next time you see Glasgow’s rodent infestation continue to spiral as a result of the filthy streets that Susan Aitken claims only need a “spruce up” – know that it was the

Labour Party that refused to join forces with us to hold her accountable and eject her sorry excuse for leadership from power in Glasgow.