FABULOUS result. We couldn’t be more delighted – …

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FABULOUS result.

We couldn’t be more delighted – or more respectfully grateful to readers who have gone around some inventive corners to help Pierre Primot in his quest for Taiseer V’s plans.

Thanks to all of you.

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• We’re sure our readers will keep thinking about this for you.
  And we’re delighted that David Hutchinson was so quick to reply to you.
• Many thanks for this very helpful advice. We have drawn M Primot’s attention to it.

Recent comments by newsroom

• Institute of Fiscal Studies economist looks at fiscal context of independent Scotland
  We would be be very happy to answer this question if we could.
  But, as things stand, there is no substantive information and economic detail on exactly what economic strategy and its associated policies would be pursued for an independent Scotland.
  The First Minister’s ‘Scotland’s Economy’ paper, recently launched, was profoundly disappointing in this respect and, in its lack of economic substance, replaced by ad-man puffery, was damaging to the campaign’s credibility.
  We can assure you and anyone, that when such information becomes available – and we are sure it will because it must – we will not be prejudging it but will respond to it with open mind and goodwill and the necessary intelligent scrutiny.
  We have WANTED and still want to see a coherent, joined up, strong, imaginative, challenging and achievable strategy and policies put forward for a specific future for Scotland – honestly described in unchallengeably accurate costs and benefits and carving out an identity for Scotland that is realistic and unique.
  The extent to which all we are being offered is essentially the status quo with a new badge and a few costly goody bags to entice ‘Yes’ votes could not undermine the ‘independence’ prospectus more thoroughly.
  No one can possibly believe that a change of this magnitude can be made without cost to all concerned.
  It is necessary is to know the realistic costs, perceive the realistic benefits and decide if the price is worth paying.
  We do not believe that the price need be too high or the benefits inconsequential – but as this campaign is being run, the price IS too high and the benefits insubstantial because, in any competent sense, the necessary thinking has not gone on.
  What is being proposed is unrealistic, often unspecific and unproductively expensive into the future – and the easy answers are clearly both misleading and dishonest.
  This won’t do and it won’t do it.
• White smoke rises from Councillor Duncan MacIntyre’s chimney as two-man College of Cardinals settle a deal
  Short and sweet for short and sweet: don’t be simplistic.
  No one could defend Councillor Robb’s sudden swerve last Thursday, leaving his loyal colleagues like flotsam and jetsam.
  But that does not mean that he did not deserve the support he was given by his colleagues when he was given it.
  Life is not a simple business.
• Russell to make parliamentary statement on rural schools today
  In the circumstances of the destructions of the SNP councillors group in the last 12 months, you can hardly expect credibility elevating the importance of ‘collective’ action?
  Being ‘collective’ when it suits one to harvest support from others it not what collectivity or collegiality is about.
  And many in Argyll now know more than enough about your party, its councillors, its members, its structures and its wonderfully elastic ‘rules’.
• Russell to make parliamentary statement on rural schools today
  This was a RESPONSE to a party political slanting of the issue – scoring points in an internal SNP turf war which should never have happened, was consciously manipulated, and has divided a party I voted for and was a member of until relatively recently – when I stopped my subscription in a mixture of anger, despair – and contempt – at what was and is – being done to hopes for better governance in Argyll and Bute.
  You might also reflect upon the contradictions inherent in approving of For Argyll for being straight speaking when it suits one agenda and condemning it when what it says – equally objectively, is less comfortable.
• Russell to make parliamentary statement on rural schools today
  Don’t take this as an argument against rural schools – which it is not.
  There is, though, a very real argument about the relative educational and social value of classes as small as one or two.
  In being in favour of rural schools, it is still important not to lose sight of good judgement, Nothing is, per se, the right or wrong provision. There’s no formula. It’s a question of context – and there does have to be a point where the best use of available money really is an issue.
  The issue centres on an honest examination and presentation of the facts – and of proposed solutions – by all concerned, with no cooking of the books and with due scrutiny to encourage integrity.

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