To further muddy the picture, the two Labour councillors reported to plod by council chief executive, Alex Linkston, under the councils Anti-Fraud and Corruption Policy are Councillor Willie Dunn and Councillor Graeme Morrice. Councillor Morrice is of course the PPC for Labour, the man tipped to replace poor Jim Devine.
According to Independent Councillor Gordon Beurskens the allegations are some 8 months old and refer back to the period when Labour were in control of the council. He further alleges that the crown and police have sat on this story and done nothing for the past eight months.
What I find astonishing is that this decision by the soon to retire Chief Executive, (he's taking a 45 year old pension with him) was taken on the 8th of April, the Action to save St John's Hospital Party put it out as press release on the 12th of April, yet here we are having just popped into the 18th April and there has been no mention of it in the mainstream media, nor even the West Lothian Councils own 'Newsroom'.
The Scotsman did a quite high profile piece on the Livingstone constituency on the 14th of April, a full six days after the decision had been made, once again for emphasis, by the Council Chief Executive, to report Morrice and Dunn to the police. They managed to include a couple of quotes from Morrice about the 'scandal' of Jim Devine being on Legal Aid and give him their customary free kick at the SNP. But no mention of what is surely a fairly large story, given Councillor Morrice's current ambition and potential job...
Councillor Beurskens, appears to have attracted a lot of opprobrium from the usual sources, in fact The Sunday Herald's favourite wee terrier, Paul Hutcheon has yet another 'exclusive' giving Cllr Beursken a quite tremendous shafting, whilst predictably, also shoeing the SNP at the same. Naturally, he makes no mention of either Messrs Dunn and Morrice...
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