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Interesting. I'm guessing this means he's out of favour with Mr Ross's bosses in London and can't make the MSP List.
The Tory councillor I know as a friend is on the Rory Stewart wing of the party. I expect they'll step aside and let an ultra-nationalist take their place.
“Thoughts on having a mayor for Edinburgh?“
Haven’t read the Nick piece, but presume he knows Edinburgh has a Lord Provost. Obviously (English style) modern mayors have different powers and can (always?) cover more than one LA.
So ‘mayor’ for Lothian?
As ever there would be issues of ‘democracy’/accountability - oh, and resources...
Models from other countries might mean Provosts for Queensferry and Porty!
Things would be better generally if SG funded LAs properly. ‘Mayors’ is a distraction.
A warlord for every Lothian hilltop.
It's funny to be agreeing with Nick Cook but anything to increase the powers, and more importantly budgetary freedom, of local councils would be a good thing in my view. We have some of the weakest, most oversized and least representative councils in Europe yet they are expected to manage all sorts of important things which impact almost everyone every day - schools, roads, bins, homelessness, air pollution, planning - and in Edinburgh's case, a nationally notable and unique infrastructure project. The idea that a council might have to go begging to the government to build a few metres of cycle lane, to restrict parking on pavements or to levy a tourist tax to fund services would be unthinkable or even unconstitutional in many other places, yet it's a sad reality for the Scottish local authority.
Having said that, I'd be a bit sad if the only achievement I could come up with following a full term as a councillor was (unsuccessfully) opposing road safety measures.
Ex Councillor Steve car down ie would not get paid for that piece would he? At least it was short.
Is that the same Stevie boy who jumped ship from Labour to the SNP? And has various "colourful" business interests including owning a taxi firm and a bar in Tallinn?
Private Eye's "Rotten Boroughs" was written with councillors like him in mind...
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Lewis Ritchie, who was elected as an SNP councillor for Leith Walk but is now an independent, has not attended any meeting of the council or its committees for six months.
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Labour councillor Scott Arthur, while agreeing EPIC deserves committee representation, said he cannot support the proposals if councillor Ritchie is put forward for committee membership.
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