SNP office-bearers on The Highland Council have resigned their positions

[Bill Fernie]

This was announced by Chief Executive Alistair Dodds at a meeting of the Council in Inverness today (Thursday) and follows a decision by the SNP Group to leave the Administration they had formed with the Independent Group.

Those who have stood down from their remunerated posts are:-

~ Vice-Convener, Jean Urquhart;
~ Chairman of Planning, Environment and Development, Drew Hendry; ~ Chairman of the City of Inverness Committee, Robert Wynd; ~ Chairman of the Inverness Nairn and Badenoch and Strathspey Planning Applications and Review Committee, Ian Brown; ~ Vice-Chairman of Resources Committee, Pauline Munro; ~ Vice-Chairman of Education Culture and Sport, Bren Gormley; ~ Vice-Chairman of TEC Services, Roy Pedersen; ~ Vice-Chairman of Housing and Social Work, Liz MacDonald.

The Council Administration now comprises 31 members of the Independent Group.

Discussions are on-going to form a new Administration.

The political make-up of the Council now stands at:

Independent ~ 31
Scottish Liberal Democrats ~ 20
Scottish National Party ~ 17
Labour ~ 7
Non-Aligned ~ 5 (Jim Crawford, David Bremner, Graeme Smith, Linda Munro, Roddy Balfour)

[tootler]

Thanks for this information, Bill - good to have the genuine story straight from the horses mouth!

Can the Independents keep on working at committee level while these posts are vacant, or does decision making stop temporarily until a new co-alition is formed?

How quickly can we expect things at Glenurquhart Road to get back to some kind of normality?

[weeboyagee]

How quickly can we expect things at Glenurquhart Road to get back to some kind of normality?

And what level of normality would that be? Their normality brought in rules we don't like and don't want to abide by - hardly normality? Or who is it that's not being normal? meeeooooowwwww,................

WBG

[Cattach]

And what level of normality would that be? Their normality brought in rules we don't like and don't want to abide by - hardly normality? Or who is it that's not being normal? meeeooooowwwww,................

WBG

Unfortunately this is just another example of how national politics is have a very detrimental affect on issues that should be decided sesibly at local level. And of course local level should mean Caithness and not 110 miles away where they could not care one jot about us in the far north. Normality means all decision of any consequence made in Inverness and to the benefit of the south of the council area - gaelic signs a good example!

[weeboyagee]

Unfortunately this is just another example of how national politics is have a very detrimental affect on issues that should be decided sesibly at local level. And of course local level should mean Caithness and not 110 miles away where they could not care one jot about us in the far north. Normality means all decision of any consequence made in Inverness and to the benefit of the south of the council area - gaelic signs a good example!

Thoroughly agree!

WBG

[hotrod4]

Independence for Caithness NOW!!!!!
No more Inverness wasting cash,lets run it ourselves and at least we cant be any worse than what we already have in Inverness

[tootler]

Independence for Caithness NOW!!!!!
No more Inverness wasting cash,lets run it ourselves and at least we cant be any worse than what we already have in Inverness

OK, Hotrod, count me in!

We couldn't do a worse job..... could we?