Debacle talks held in secret

The great riverside “carbuncle” may have been brought down by public indignation – but the financial facts surrounding the doomed project are to remain private.

South Ayrshire chief executive Eileen Howat says it is “not appropriate” to dissect the figures.

But how appropriate is it for the chief executive to collude with elected members in divulging – or not divulging – how council tax payer’s money was spent?

And once again we have an SNP-led administration - elected on a platform of “openness, consultation and transparency”– deciding to discuss this £527,000 blunder “behind closed doors”.

It’s all starting to wear a bit thin on a public whose distrust of anything to do with South Ayrshire Council grows on a weekly basis.

The only transparency now on display is the voters of South Ayrshire starting to see through the scheming, self-protecting, secret society they elected to Castle Grayskull.

They deserve better than this.