When the Cat's Away........
The SNP is responsible for removing independent oversight of councillors' salaries and expenses in Scotland.
Derek Mackay, the SNP's disgraced former finance minister, was in charge of this area of Scottish Government policy at the time.
To my mind this was a big mistake because SNP politicians are now taking the public for fools - as SNP MSPs and MPs in Glasgow use public money to employ local councillors in their constituency offices.
Yet these same SNP councillors already enjoy full-time jobs which have full-time salaries (plus expenses) in SNP led Glasgow City Council.
As Albert Einstein once said: "Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters."