No agenda behind SNP’ s use of AECC

Ken Ramsay, Queens Road, Fraserburgh SIR, – The SNP practice of often holding their annual conference outwith Glasgow allows smaller cities such as Perth and Aberdeen to benefit economically from such events. This year’s decision to return to Aberdeen should be applauded. Your reader, Ian Lakin, however, managed in Monday’s letters page to downplay the benefits it brought by linking it to the All Energy Conference, which is no longer held at the AECC.

Can I remind Mr Lakin that it is the decision of the organisers for the All Energy Conference where it is held and not the SNP, in fact the conference receives no funding from the Scottish Government.

As the location is a commercial matter for the organisers and host venues, I would suggest it is firmly in the hands of Aberdeen City Council, as administrators of the new AECC, whether or not the energy conference returns to Aberdeen.

One may well be excused for thinking there was some political mischief intended in Mr Lakin’s letter.

visiting the art gallery and Music Hall and will be surprised if under this administration l live long enough to see them finished along with Marischal Square and the Union Terrace garden project.

I quote from Macbeth: “It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing”.

that in the 2014 referendum she should admit “Yes we conned some of you”.