DOORSTEP ANSWER Too many council jobs have been lost but the culprit is Tory austerity imposed by Westminster. Independence is the only cure.
WHO ARE SCOTLAND IN UNION? Scotland in Union (SiU) is a pro-Union campaign group launched in March 2015. Board members include Johanna Baxter, Unison’s head of local government bargaining and a member of Labour’s Scottish Executive Committee, as well as a candidate for the party in the upcoming election. SiU’s chief executive is Pamela Nash, the former Labour MP for Airdrie and Shotts who was ousted by the SNP’s Neil Gray in 2015. She is on the right of the Labour Party and served as the parliamentary private secretary to Jim Murphy. She is still active politically and tried and failed to get re-selected as a Labour candidate for the Airdrie by-election on May 6.