New SNP chief under scrutiny over controversial comments

The SNP has fired through multiple leaders in recent months, and it now looks to be doing the same with CEOs. After former Daily Record editor Murray Foote announced his resignation last week, the Nats have appointed a new interim chief executive – who has already managed to cause quite a stir…

Carol Beattie was formerly the CEO of Stirling Council until she stepped down earlier this year, releasing a rather scathing resignation letter in the process. As reported by the Scottish Daily Mail, Beattie blasted party decisions after lamenting the council authority had suffered ‘more than a decade of cuts to its budget’, which is decided by the, er, SNP government. In the same note, Beattie warned the nationalist lot: ‘The regard for local government will surely have to return or we will see the societal consequences for years to come.’ Ouch. Tory chairman Craig Hoy slammed the new SNP chief, noting: ‘During her time as an ‘impartial’ civil servant at Stirling Council, Carol Beattie quite rightly hit out at the SNP for inflicting 17 years of savage cuts to our local authorities.