Sir,
Mr MacKinnon's letter of 24th January makes it clear that the Labour Party have learned
nothing from their two shattering general election defeats. They were defeated because
their bank de-
Throughout Labour's thirteen years in power, our services declined while our taxes went up, and nobody knows where the money went. And now, yet again, they want to increase the rates of income tax and council tax. They want to tax hard working people to pay for Gordon Brown's bungling incompetence, and then pour our money down the drain.
The Comhairle, dominated by Labour councillors and "independent" councillors who
are members of the Labour Party, are pleading poverty. Perhaps they should ask a
Labour councillor who has attended only 15 committee meetings since the beginning
of 2014 and pocketed nearly £45,000 of salary and expenses, to justify an income
of perhaps £1,500 an hour while many hard-
Dr D C Wilson
12b Tolsta Chaolais
Isle of Lewis
Letter: Islanders penalised for Gordon Brown's "bungling incompetence"
25 January 2016