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Published Date: 23 May 2009
LABOUR Scottish leader Iain Gray says Glasgow should get more money to repair its potholes.
Mr Gray said the council has been starved of money for roads and other transport priorities.

Speaking in his Baillieston constituency, Mr Gray attacked the Scottish Government for investing in other areas to the detriment of the country's largest city.

The Ripped Off Glasgow campaign has called for the funding formula to be changed to give the city a fairer share of government cash.

Mr Gray called for urgent investment in roads and rail to ensure the city can compete on a national and international scale. "Every motorist knows local roads in Glasgow and the west of Scotland are in a mess, with more and more potholes," he said.

"Councils have been starved of cash for roads by the SNP government and, as a result, routine maintenance is in a pitiful state."





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  • Last Updated: 22 May 2009 11:00 PM
  • Source: The Scotsman
  • Location: Edinburgh
  • Related Topics: Scottish Labour Party
 
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The Online Scot,

Scotland 22/05/2009 23:11:58
"Councils have been starved of cash for roads by the SNP government and, as a result, routine maintenance is in a pitiful state."

Gray is the worst leader of any political party in the UK - bar none. His utterances resemble the rants of teenagers.
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Hmm ...,

23/05/2009 07:49:31
... just how long have Glasgow's roads been crumbling? Like Edinburgh, the current state of decay runs back to Labour's administrations and diversion of cash to more dogma-sympathetic areas.

It's time that Labour realised that all layers of government are there to provide for the needs of the people, not their own political ambitions.

But as there is litle chance that they will, perhaps it is best that they keep pushing their twaddle and fade into obscurity and beyond.

 

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