I see that local SNP Councillor Chris Osborne would like the number of Councillors cut, while his colleague Jim Grieve thinks Councillors should be full-time and paid more.
Despite the headline in today's Greenock Telegraph ("War of words over councillor cull") these points of view are not necessarily mutually exclusive as reducing the number of Councillors could provide a justification for making the post full time and increasing the salary paid, although the latter proposal would go down like a lead balloon in the current economic climate.
Chris comes at the issue from the viewpoint that as a small nation we are over governed. I do not disagree with him but in my humble opinion the priority should be to reduce the number of MSPs (currently 129) we have rather than the number of Councillors.
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