Council leader Susan Aitken has blasted Westminster for its “absolute failure” to deal with Brexit as councillors call for Article 50 to be revoked.

In response to a letter to Glasgow City Council from a Brexit minister on behalf of Theresa May, which said the government will never accept a second referendum, the Green Party put forward a motion demanding the UK Government stops ignoring the views of the majority of Scottish People.

It calls for Article 50, the intention to withdraw from the European Union, to be pulled unless a public vote with the option to remain can be secured.

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Ms Aitken gave her support to the motion, saying: “I fail to see how even the most ardent supporter of the UK’s Government, or the main opposition party, can look at what has been happening in recent weeks with anything other than growing disgust for the absolute failure of the Westminster political classes on the biggest issue facing these islands in decades.

“What started off as a hard right Tory project turned into a campaign which lied to the people of the UK and looks very much to have been engaged in criminal activity and broken electoral law has now become an utter crisis.

“It has now become clear the Westminster parliament cannot find a way out of this crisis.

“There is no form of Brexit that provides a good outcome for Glasgow, there is no form of Brexit that provides a good outcome for Scotland.

“The revocation of article 50 is now the only tolerable option available to us.”

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Councillor Kim Long proposed the motion for the Green Party after reading the letter, from Kwasi Kwarteng, under secretary of state for Brexit, with “some alarm”.

She said: “I’m astonished to read about the government’s concern about threatening public trust in our democracy.

“As if there could still be a shred of public confidence left in institutions of Westminster after this process, the reverberations of which will be felt for generations to come.”

Ms Long said any belief that a success can be made from a no deal Brexit is “utter fallacy”. Her motion mirrors the Scottish Parliament’s view on Brexit.

A Labour amendment, detailing the majority of people across the UK wanted to avoid a catastrophic no deal Brexit, was added to the end of the motion.

However, a Tory amendment was rejected. It said: “The result of the referendum held across the UK in June 2016 should be respected and delivered and the best way of achieving this is leaving the European Union with a withdrawal agreement.”

Tory councillor Kyle Thornton said the Green proposal “cast aside the democratic legitimacy of the ballot box in favour of rule by online petition and marches through the streets.”

“It is not for us as politicians to ignore the democratic will of the people.”