With reports of financial armageddon looming, Sandra White says the people of Glasgow deserve better

SNP MSP Sandra White has responded to reports that the overhaul of Labour’s controversial arms-length external organisation (ALEOs) could cause financial meltdown at Glasgow City Council.

Glasgow City Council (GCC) will slash and merge financially struggling organisations that deliver services from property maintenance to parking provision and regeneration services.

Ms White, MSP for Kelvin, said: “Labour created this ALEO shambles in GCC when they saw a quick buck could be made. They were warned by myself and my colleagues in the SNP that it was only going to cause services to suffer and was not commercially viable in the long term – but they didn’t listen.

“It will be the people of Glasgow that suffer with job cuts and impoverished services and while unelected and unaccountable bosses continue to take big pay packets home.

“The people of Scotland’s biggest city deserve better. They, the people of Glasgow, will decide in next year’s council elections if they want responsible accountable council governance or more of the same from the Labour asset-strippers that have been selling off the city’s assets for too long.”