| Comment | Agreed.
If the boundaries can't be redrawn (for the various political reasons that others have mentioned) then there should be some sort of weighting/subsidy arrangement with council tax bills so that the surrounding suburbs support Glasgow in some way.
I say this as someone who moved out of a tenement flat in Glasgow to a detached house outside the city. Despite the new property being larger and higher value, the council tax bill went down significantly. The level of service from the council also seems better.
Back in the 90s when there were two tiers of local authorities, the Strathclyde Region helped address some of this imbalance. But the current single tier arrangements were gerrymandered so that the Tories didn't find themselves without a single council in Scotland, hence East Ren, East Dumbartonshire, etc. |
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