Cllr Allison Hunter - Group Leader
Allison Hunter was born in 1942 in Kinning Park and educated at Pollokshields Senior Secondary School and Jordanhill College. She was a primary school teacher for 23 years before going on to work as the SNP’s National Organiser, retiring in 2002.
Allison has been a member of the SNP for almost 40 years and is a member of the SNP’s National Executive Committee. She was the election agent for Jim Sillars during the 1988 Govan by-election, when the SNP scored a spectacular success, and is currently Nicola Sturgeon’s election agent. She is married with 3 grown up children and 2 grandchildren.
Allison says: "It’s time for a fresh approach to local government in Glasgow, with councillors who really listen to the people. It’s also time to replace the unfair council tax with a fair local income tax based on ability to pay. Only the SNP can deliver this."
News from the Glasgow SNP Council group
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Friday, 20 January 2006 |
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has been a lot of coverage concerning Lord Provost Liz Cameron's
expenses of £60,000. While she correctly stated that the trips had been
approved in advance, councillors were usually not aware of the full
costs when they gave approval. They might well have had second thoughts
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Saturday, 17 December 2005 |
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The new Regional Transport Partnership (which is to replace SPT) met
for the first time on Monday 12th. It consists of 20
councillors from the 12 councils. The LibDems (2) and SNP
(1) councillors proposed that one of the two vice-chair's posts should
go to an opposition party. This is what happens in COSLA
and would have reinforced the concept of a partnership where all worked
together for the good of transport in the West of Scotland.
Officials and Labour councillors had obviously not expected the
opposition to push this to a vote and there was initial confusion as to
how the voting would be carried out! However, the idea of
Labour surrendering even a token amount of control (and allowances) was
obviously unacceptable and all three posts went to Labour
councillors. So much for the brave new world of partnership
working! Hopefully 2007 will see a reduction in Labour's
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Saturday, 17 December 2005 |
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Thursday's Council meeting the SNP put forward a motion to confirm
Glasgow's opposition to new nuclear power stations. Glasgow
is signed up as a member of Nuclear Free Local Authorities (Scotland)
and in fact this group is chaired by Glasgow's Cllr David
Stevenson. However, Labour refused to back the SNP motion
and instead moved an amendment which stated "this issue requires
careful deliberations" and referred it to a "sub-committee for detailed
consideration." The Labour position was supported by the
LibDems. |
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Saturday, 17 December 2005 |
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It has been suggested recently that there might be a demand from Muslim
parents for a Council run Muslim primary school in Glasgow.
Therefore, the SNP asked on Thursday 15th at the full meeting of
Council whether the Education Department would consult with parents to
find out what they wanted. However, Councillor Gordon
Matheson on behalf of the Labour administration refused to hold such a
consultation. He said they would consider consulting
parents only if a "well developed proposal" came forward. |
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Saturday, 10 December 2005 |
It has been revealed that the Councillor's Buffet in the City Chambers
costs £246,282 in the year to 31 March 2005. As there are
79 councillors that equates to over £3,100 per head! Of the
total, £64,011 of these costs came from the Common Good Fund which has
been much in the news lately. The Labour Group had
challenged the SNP's claims that councillors were receiving free
lunches but the SNP has responded with the facts and a rebuttal (letter
below).
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Saturday, 10 December 2005 |
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COSLA, the Labour dominated body which is meant to represent all of
local government in Scotland, has made a very weak appeal to the
Scottish Executive for funds for the Equal Pay Settlement.
In a letter of 7 December to minister Tom McCabe released to the
Convention on Friday 9, Pat Watters (COSLA's President) starts off,
"Dear Tom, Just a short note to update you…" He goes on,
"We will need to speak to you in the later part of January." |
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Saturday, 10 December 2005 |
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In a telling article in the Herald of 8 December, architect Alan Dunlop
makes a number of interesting statements. "We are building
schools for children we wouldn't use as adults… fees are cut to the
bone so any idea of developing design is a non-starter.
That means you get sub-standard buildings which are little more than a
roof over your heads. It is designed for the accountant and
the bean counter and in 20 years time these buildings are likely to
become as bad as the schools they replaced because the materials are
not good enough and the design is poor." |
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Friday, 02 December 2005 |
 Wednesday's Environmental Sustainability Committee heard how Summerhill
Primary School in Drumchapel had been built using 20% recycled
material. And this had been achieved without any effort to
do so! In fact the report said that a figure of 27% could
have been achieved without any cost to the Council.
Obviously a higher figure makes long term economic sense and means less
waste going to landfill. |
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