Jim Bollan

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Jim Bollan is a councillor in West Dunbartonshire in Scotland.

He represents the Renton and Alexandria South ward. He is one of two councillors from the Scottish Socialist Party.

He was at one time a member of the Communist Party of Great Britain, then the Labour Party, and he was at one time the Labour group leader on Dumbarton District Council.

In 1999 he was elected as an independent for Renton and Alexandria South, defeating a Labour opponent. Shortly after this he joined the SSP. In 2003 he was re-elected, defeating a Scottish National Party opponent, but he did not have a Labour opponent.

He has not been a prominent figure in the SSP at a national level, but he has been involved in the campaign against conditions in Cornton Vale women's prison, as his daughter was one of a number of women prisoners who have committed suicide there over the past few years.

He was one of the supporters of the United Left in the SSP, and stayed with it in spite of Tommy Sheridan's breakaway.