Social media has its limits: Angus Council Leader loses it in public...
What you are about to read below has been published, voluntarily, if too freely, by the Leader of Angus Council, Councillor Iain Gaul, on his Facebook page – as a councillor. [If you cannot believe...
View ArticleCouncillor Ewan Smith does battle alone at Angus education meeting
The calibre of competence and responsibility of local government, fiscally and operationally, is coming under increasing scrutiny these days, with a far more aware and unformed electorate.Angus...
View ArticleWithdrawals move numbers against proposed new coalition
[Updated below 17.30] The proposed new coalition administration for Argyll and Bute claimed a majority of 25-11 in its launch announcement.We showed last night [10th May] that this was incorrect – and...
View ArticleArgyll and Bute for Change now have majority
The latest information is that the Argyll and Bute for Change group, led by Councillor Duncan MacIntyre, have persuaded two more councillors to join them, taking their numbers to 19, a majority in a 36...
View ArticleAberdeen Donside by-election: SNP hang on, losing 13.5% vote
The result of the Aberdeen Donside by-election for the Scottish Parliament, caused by the death of SNP MSP Brian Adam.The SNP retained the seat with Mark McDonald – but with a reduced majority of...
View ArticleIs Walsh trying to keep the natives quiet for a couple of years?
Questions are being raised over the budgetary planning arrangements coming up for certain approval at tomorrow’s meeting of Argyll and Bute Council, where the latest administration in a dizzying series...
View ArticleArgyll and Bute Council seriously misleads Holyrood Education Committee
And they’ve done it in writing.On 3rd December 2013, Argyll and Bute Council made a written submission of evidence to the Scottish Parliament’s Education and Culture Committee, which is considering...
View ArticleProvost chastises Council Leader and Deputy Leader for schoolyard behaviour...
The prospect of being exchanged for the SNP group next year as Council Leader Walsh’s support act, clearly improved the fidelity of the Argyll Lomond and the Isles group of councillors at Thursday’s...
View Article2014 – the year the debate will end
2014 is a date with a destiny still to be decided for Scotland and for the UK. Actually, it will be good to get it over and done with – whichever way it goes.It is already tedious and we have over...
View ArticleVindication of SNP coalition budget in adoption by new administration
There is some comfort for the beleaguered SNP group of councillors, dispersed as they now are between all of the groups in the council chamber; and their former coalition partners.They may have lacked...
View ArticleEarly candidate selection giving Labour a strong start in race for Argyll and...
Labour has the Argyll and Bute seat at Westminster as one of its five top targets to take in the 2015 UK General Election.In pursuit of this determination, the party went for an early selection of its...
View ArticleIndy could lead to a change of UK government under a year into office
[Updated below 4th February] Supposing Scotland went for Indy in September 2014, the UK General Election in May 2015 and what comes after it is a matter of serious interest..Of course we would elect...
View ArticleMajority of Justice Committee members do not support ditching corroborative...
In a reassuring move resisting damaging populist change to the security of the Scottish judicial system, a majority of the members of the Scottish Parliament’s Justice Committee do not support the...
View ArticleScottish Social Attitudes survey shows substantial majority for keeping the...
The 2013 Scottish Social Attitudes Survey – they call it ‘the half-time score’ - interviewed a probability sample of 1,497 adults, face to face, between 25th June and 23rd October 2013.An immediate...
View ArticleAnother Argyll and Bute councillor stands down
For Argyll was told yesterday that Oban North and Lorn Councillor, the SNP’s Louise Glen-Lee, was resigning from Argyll and Bute Council.We asked Councillor Glen-Lee if this was the case.She confirmed...
View ArticleAnother sign of the times for the Lib Dems in Newark
Yesterday’s by election for the Newark seat at the UK Parliament saw the Conservatives hold the seat but with their 16,000 majority cut by 56% and their vote share by almost 9% by the UKIP candidate...
View ArticleThuggish Yes campaign benefits from media’s artificial ‘balance’ as Murphy...
The national media, whether by intimidation or endemic fearfulness, has presented a dangerously distorted view of the campaigns contesting the Scottish Independence referendum. They impose a wholly...
View ArticleSNP irresponsibly fuelling dangerous inflammation when Scotland needs calm
This morning at 10.40, a Saturday and one day after Scotland was shown to have expressed an unequivocal decision to remain within the United Kingdom, the SNP media team sent out a press release...
View ArticleSecretary of State for Scotland rebukes Nicola Sturgeon
Secretary of State for Scotland, Alistair Carmichael MP, has had to issue a rebuke to First Minister [almost]elect, Nicola Sturgeon, reminding her that as First Minister for Scotland, she will have a...
View ArticleKeith Brown clarifies timetable to independence
Transport Minister, Keith Brown, the most capable and experienced of the three candidates for the Deputy Leadership of the SNP and the most capable and experienced of the two of those three who are...
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