By the time this is published, we should know if the Flamingo Land holiday resort proposal has been approved.

I’ve reviewed the plans and weighed the pros and cons as they evolved over the years.

Planning refusal would mean losing over a hundred Real Living Wage jobs, local supply contracts, improved woodland access, eco-friendly construction, and financial support for Drumkinnon Roundabout upgrades—an overall missed opportunity.

Objectors often mentioned the rollercoasters and theme parks, highlighting just how much misinformation has surrounded this proposal.

Even the Green Party's petition to 'Save Loch Lomond' is misleading as most of the development is on the river Leven, not Loch Lomond.

Despite repeated public challenges, the Green Party remains silent on the proposed 70-storey power plant, which would significantly overshadow the riverside tourist development they oppose.

Some might view their petition against lodges and hotels in Balloch as smoke and mirrors, a diversion from the far greater issue of the wind farm.

Although the National Park has recommended denying the wind farm application, the final decision is not theirs to make.

READ MORE: How have campaigners reacted to Flamingo Lands refusal?

Speaking of smokescreens, the big news has been the Labour Group's dramatic exit from leadership at WDC.

Claiming that his group of ten councillors could not set a budget - despite it not being on the meeting agenda - Labour leader Martin Rooney and his group stropped out of the council chambers, verbally quitting the leadership with one colleague smiling and quipping "good luck" to the seven-strong SNP group sat opposite them.

It’s curious since, last I looked, ten votes should outweigh seven.

Just minutes earlier, the outgoing Labour Provost was praising Labour’s impressive election victories, and landslide support for their change manifesto and claimed a track record for delivering.

The public opinion I've read on social media suggests that their track record is more about dishonesty and shirking responsibility.

“Read my lips – no austerity under Labour,” declared Scottish Labour Leader Anas Sarwar.

Yet, weeks later, pensioners saw their winter fuel allowance cut. This swift shift to austerity within weeks of Labour taking office in Westminster shows their true colours.

Labour's gleeful and abrupt abandonment of responsibility at WDC was a deliberate distraction from their mismanagement.

At the council meeting, Councillors were told of an increased budget gap of £7million.

Labour is running away from a calamity I can barely describe, just 6 months after setting their budget and misplacing a vast sum of money.

They have raided a pension pot surplus to mask some of this loss, a problem for someone else to fix another day it seems.

The SNP in contrast delivered four years of no-cuts budgets, only making savings at their first budget before that, cleaning up after Labour's previous term.