The SNP has been accused of "control freakery" after an email was mistakenly sent to all MSPs instead of just SNP members on what their questions will be in the Chamber later this week.
04.05.2022 - 11:33 / dailyrecord.co.uk
A bitter spat has erupted between SNP and Labour members before this week’s election, with both parties accusing each other of attempting to deceive voters.
In the run-up to this week’s vote the area’s two biggest parties have been involved in a row over their campaigns.
The SNP have faced criticism over an election leaflet taking credit for new social housing – with a community figure linked to the project claiming it’s “dishonest”.
Meanwhile SNP leader Jonathan McColl labelled Labour’s campaign full of “untruths and obfuscation” after comments made by their leader about the budget gap facing WDC.
The row first broke out last month over a leaflet, which promotes Dumbarton SNP candidates Karen Conaghan and Chris Pollock, describing the SNP-led council’s achievements since 2017, including new social housing built in Westcliff.
Liz Ruine, a former Chair of Cube Housing Association, part of the Wheatley Group that lodged the proposals for 46 houses in 2017, claims the development had nothing to do with the current administration.
Liz, a Labour candidate in the 2017 local elections, said: “I was incensed when I read the recent SNP leaflet.
“It was the will of the people here that made this project happen.
“Castlehill Action Group was at the heart of this and it was under the previous Labour administration that this began.
“Claiming credit for something they had nothing to do with is dishonest.”
However Karen Conaghan, one of the SNP’s Dumbarton candidates, hit back - saying: “As Liz well knows the building of all social housing is funded in partnership by monies from the SNP-led Scottish Government.”
Meanwhile this week a further row erupted after Labour’s leader in West Dunbartonshire, Martin Rooney, accused the SNP administration of
The SNP has been accused of "control freakery" after an email was mistakenly sent to all MSPs instead of just SNP members on what their questions will be in the Chamber later this week.
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