Councillor Kevin Keenan, Labour group leader on Dundee City Council, today accused the SNP of "playing postcode politics over their supposed opposition to PFI and PPP funding" for council projects. "
He said, " While they fiercely criticise councils for delivering projects built using PFI, the SNP say nothing about when they had control of Angus Council, and they enthusiastically signed up for a huge PFI contract.
" The then SNP-controlled Angus Council joined with Dundee City Council in a PFI funded £53 million dual carriageway between Dundee and Arbroath.
"It opened in 2005, and the SNP Council boasted it was a 'landmark PFI project, the largest roads project undertaken by local government in Scotland.'
( See : http://www.angus.gov.uk/new/releases-archive/2005/2005-09-27a.htm
" As regards the SNP's so-called opposition to PPP funding, the SNP in Angus eagerly signed up for a £50 million PPP contract in 2006, the Forfar-Carnoustie schools project.
" It's inconvenient facts like these for the SNP that expose their double standards over funding for public projects."
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