A local councillor who left the SNP last week after more than four decades has blasted claims that he was ditched as a candidate for colluding with Tory councillors.
As reported in Friday’s Stirling Observer, Bannockburn ward councillor Alasdair MacPherson, an SNP councillor for more than 15 years and a member of the party for 44 years, announced that he had submitted his resignation last Wednesday morning citing differences with the party “at local and national level”.
The controversial move last year by the SNP/Labour administration to introduce collection of grey bins and blue bins every four weeks instead of fortnightly was said to have played a part in his decision.
