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SNP councillor brands council workers' day off for Queen's Platinum Jubilee as ‘despicable British establishment stunt'

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Celebration of the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee has been dubbed a ‘despicable, British establishment stunt” and “a vanity project” by a Stirling SNP councillor.

Bannockburn ward councillor Alasdair Macpherson was the only councillor at a full council meeting last Thursday to reject a proposal awarding Stirling Council staff an extra day’s annual leave on Friday, June 3, 2022 to mark the jubilee.

Officers said operational services would not be disrupted by the extra day off while £42,500 was also approved to be provided from General Fund Reserves to cover the cost of early learning and childcare provision, which will continue as normal.Councillor Macpherson, however, said the move was “wholly insensitive” at a time when the council was being

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