Drip-drip of allegations is damaging city's reputation

The further drip-drip of allegations over the management and conduct of the Labour party and organisations of Labour run Glasgow City Council is damaging the reputation of the city, the SNP have warned.

Reports in the weekend press reveal that Labour’s disgraced former council leader, Stephen Purcell, helped arrange access to a top official for two Labour-supporting developers and, separately, that a councillor embroiled in allegations of drugs and cronyism linked to Mr Purcell has been suspended by the Labour Party.

It is understood that funding to Cllr Ruth Black’s gay and lesbian centre has been axed after financial irregularities were uncovered.

Cllr James Dornan, leader of the SNP opposition on Glasgow City Council, said: “The continued drip-drip of allegations about the activities of Labour in Glasgow is damaging our great city’s reputation. Labour need to clean up their act, and admit there is a wide ranging and serious problem.

“The more allegations emerge about Labour’s behaviour, the more it appears that Glasgow City Council has been run for the benefit of Labour politicians and their friends rather than the people of the city. The people of Glasgow deserve to have all of these issues properly investigated.

“The unseemly relationship between Glasgow Labour politicians and Labour-friendly businesses is once again exposed by these revelations.

“Along with other stories in the newspapers, these revelations go to the very heart of how the Labour party operates when in power."

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Reports can be found here:

• Sunday Herald
• Herald