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I see from today's Greenock Telegraph that the SNP candidate for Greenock and Inverclyde has made a video to launch his campaign, in which he claims credit for record investment in social housing in Inverclyde, the £5.5m contribution from the Scottish Government for the shared campus in Port Glasgow and £2m for regeneration of our three town centres.

He fails to point out that if the local SNP's campaign against stock transfer had been successful we would not have had the record investment in social housing approved by the previous Labour-led Scottish Executive.

He fails to point out that the reason we are having a shared campus in Port Glasgow is down to the courage and conviction of Inverclyde's Labour Councillors and that the £5.5m was secured after effective lobbying by these Councillors through COSLA and with the support of our two local Labour MSPs, Duncan McNeil and Trish Godman.

And he also fails to point out that his SNP colleagues on Inverclyde Council recently voted against a £1m investment in Port Glasgow Town Centre.