🔴 The former Labour leader of Aberdeen City Council has resigned from the party over its stance on the North Sea oil and gas industry, hitting out at Sir Keir Starmer in the process
However, environmental groups said the policy did not go far enough, as Labour will not revoke the licences of any new oil and gas fields granted between now and the election.
In what he described as the “final straw”, the Dyce, Bucksburn and Danestone councillor said: “I have been left stunned and bemused by the events of the last few weeks. He added: “Margaret Thatcher never delivered a more brutal putdown of an industry than that delivered by Keir Starmer in Edinburgh.”“However, I felt I could not in all conscience say what I believe about the wider situation whilst remaining in the group. The area needs to fight with vigour to have some control of its own destiny,” he added.said the resignation was a “devastating verdict” of Sir Keir’s “reckless and economically illiterate plans to decimate the North Sea oil and gas industry”.
“That sums up why Keir Starmer was in hiding earlier this week and outlined his plans to betray the North East in Edinburgh rather than Aberdeen.”
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