Listening to Innes...

I see that I am getting more advice today on the Council's budget, this time from the acting Leader of the SNP Group, Councillor Innes Nelson.

Innes told The Greenock Telegraph that his Group is very concerned that compulsory redundancies have not been ruled out.

I have made it clear on a number of occasions that the Administration would wish to avoid compulsory redundancies but that we simply cannot give an absolute guarantee. I have to say to the local SNP Group that this is a view shared by every SNP led Council in Scotland.

Indeed the only Council so far to announce compulsory redundancies is Aberdeen, which is run by an SNP/Lib Dem coalition.

Clearly the local SNP Group think that it is good politics to promote a no compulsory redundancies policy, safe in the knowledge that they don't have the votes to get this through the Council.

For me this is dishonest and irresponsible. They should stop playing politics with people's jobs.