I am going to be shouting about this until either the Scottish Government wise up or, more likely, I die.
You cannot have effective two-tier government based on the same group of people wearing two hats. Indirect apportionment is most workable but still just *bad*. Can you not be moroms about this?
No option - massive regional councils, tiny local councils, indirect apportionment of one tier from members of the other - is democratically optimal (tiny local councils especially would be actively *anti*-democratic, but one of them is where we'll have to end up. Messy and, frankly, stupid.