Aberdeen council leader claimed Glasgow escaped a harsher lockdown because it is a "Yes city". Tory Douglas Lumsden suggested it all came down to independence and central belt bias in an angry backlash on social media after Nicola Sturgeon imposed restrictions on the city.
People in Glasgow, West Dunbartonshire and East Renfrewshire are not allowed to mix in each others' houses for two weeks in an attempt to curb the spread of lethal Covid-19.
But Lumsden - the co-leader of Aberdeen's administration - complained his city saw pubs and restaurants closed when an outbreak spread in the Granite City.
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