BANKRUPT GLASGOW SCHOOLS - SHERIDAN DEMANDS THEY BE TAKEN BACK INTO COUNCIL CONTROL

Scottish Socialist Party MSP and Convenor Tommy Sheridan today demanded that Glasgow schools be taken back from the troubled PPP contractor Amey, which has put them up for sale.

Tommy Sheridan said,

“Now we see the real face of PPP. Far from taking out the financial risk for the public sector, private finance has put Glasgow schools at risk of being traded like a commodity for sale. The only answer is that Glasgow City Council should take the schools back into public ownership and at no compensation to shareholders. It is obscene that our schools should be bought and sold like companies on the stock market. Glasgow Council and the Scottish Executive must end this nonsense.”

For more information, contact Tommy Sheridan on 07887 795075 or Hugh Kerr on 0131 348 5631/07713 063647