West Lothian councillors make demand to Scottish Government for more funding to help cope with the health crisis
dailyrecord.co.ukHowever, SNP opposition members branded the Labour plea as “hypocrisy”, claiming Labour had already voted against a review of Third Sector funding and refused to spend reserves to help the community.Depute SNP group leader, Councillor Frank Anderson, branded Labour’s approach as an: “Oliver Twist financial strategy of ‘Can we have some more’.”Councillor Anderson said: “Perhaps if they were serious, instead of playing politics, they would use their £2million reserves, or the ability they have to convert capital receipts to revenue funding and distribute that to West Lothian organisations.“This council has the ability to assist groups but Labour councillors are not prepared to use them.“They are not looking at this as a ‘rainy day’, instead.
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