Re-elected in May 2003, he was joined that year as a Labour councillor by Jack Young, newly elected to represent the Rosebank/Waterside ward.
[1][2] Jack Young then resigned from the party in support of Kennedy,[3] and both chose to sit on as independent councillors without contesting by-elections.
[4] In November 2004, Kennedy and Young announced the formation of the Strathkelvin People's Independent Labour Party with the intention of campaigning on issues such as the reduction in services at the local Stobhill General Hospital, and of seeking support from people disillusioned with the way in which East Dunbartonshire Council was being run.
Charles Kennedy died on Friday 13 July 2012,[7] and no Independent Alliance candidate stood at the ensuing by-election on 13 September.
The party was voluntarily deregistered with the Electoral Commission on 11 October, Jack Young reverting to his previous status as an independent councillor.