Sellik councillors following raSellik on other peoples money

[mitherzundhand]

Members of a Scottish council accepted gifts and hospitality from two mining firms which went bust leaving a A?A?132m shortfall to restore opencast sites.

The members' register at East Ayrshire Council shows up to 15 councillors declared gifts and hospitality from Scottish Coal and ATH Resources.

A**** the declarations were a trip to watch Celtic play Barcelona in Spain, food hampers, lunches and alcohol.

The council is probing failures a**** officials over the firms' collapse.

Other items declared in the register of interests include:

travel, lunch, dinner and tickets for a match between Wolves and Manchester United;
lunch and match between Falkirk and Kilmarnock;
gala dinner and overnight stay at Glasgow's Hilton hotel;
travel, dinner and tickets for the Roy Kean Testimonial Match between Manchester United and Celtic;
tickets for the 2004 Scottish Cup Final at Hampden;
a coal industry lunch at the Raddison Blu Hotel in Glasgow; and

[braincapers]

Two of the games highlighted in your post involved Manchester United why did you not call them ManUtd Councillors?

You are ably demonstrating the reason why Scotland's voters should not be allowed to decide their own fate as too many are too parochial in their outlook to be given the right to make a decision on something as important as independence.

A large number of votes will be casted solely on the basis that "those other lot want independence/to stay in the union so I am voting the opposite".