Comment posted Helensburgh candidates putting the rules back by WCHB.
This is what we need in the election.
Heresy! Heresy! Burn them! Burn them!
WCHB also commented
- No, Simon
That’s what Lowry meant.
Pay attention, please.On second thoughts, the “Burn them!” should be deleted for Health and Safety reasons
Recent comments by WCHB
- International fleet of classic Fife yachts to create a July sailing spectacle on Argyll’s secret coast
I’m a (sort of) internet punctuation bigot, and in this case Neil was absolutely correct – a short, enthusiastic comment in ALL CAPS.
(And I’m a sailor too, if you hadn’t guessed) - Why has UK Borders Force changed immigration rules for cruise passengers?
So, how many Immigration Officers (and their associated desks) are going to turn up at Oban to disembark 2000+ passengers? 2? – even 20 means each one processes 100 passengers. And then hang about all day, because, unlike an airport, the cruisers don’t all disembark on arrival.They don’t all go back on board. Some will take taxi or hire car to meet up with the liner at a later port.
- Scotland said to lack systems to maintain safe road markings
I don’t often agree with Simon but…I went looking for NRSMA, and the report.
I found no National RSMA, but found RSMA
http://www.rsma.co.uk
It’s a commercial organisation, supporting its members.
When you look at the “About” section, it’s very much about.The organisation … promoting the industry as a whole and the collective interests of its members.
The RSMA’s team … support its members.…providing a base for discussion, training and standards that help to ensure the health and safety of operators and to develop a highly trained, fully-qualified workforce
The report itself
http://www.rsma.co.uk/index.php/news/press-releases/80-red-alert-on-white-lines.html
is very much Highways Agency (Eng, Wales) based, with a couple of scathing paragraphs on Scotland towards the end (but no Argyll roads get specific mention)
The contact detail on the report is not RSMA itself, but a London PR company – Hadstrong
http://www.hadstrong.com/rebecca-hadley.html
Style: Confidently creates punchy media stories on minuscule budgets
Skill: devises PR campaigns to give clients a share of voice in the media that outstrips their marketing spend ten-fold and changes their status in their industrySo, an on the ball, effective pressure group, deploying good resources. But, the term “vested interest” could apply.
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Comment. If you’re driving at night, and can’t see where the road goes, slow down.If you really really want the specs for road marking, it’s a 30 page pdf
http://www.dft.gov.uk/ha/standards/dmrb/vol8/section2/td2607.pdf
I think it’s up to date, the previous version was TD26/05
- A85 Connel to Dalmally closed in both directions
It’s all right, Mel. Size is not important – really. - Transport Scotland’s response to Public Petitions Committee on A83
Have I missed anyone suggesting improving the uphill drainage on the Rest, with ditches and culverts?
(As appears to have been done at the Glen Ogle avalanche site)Everyone appears to expect a higher risk when the rains come, and when the drains are silted up. The solution appears to be to turn on the lights, wait for the avalanche, and then manage the consequences.
Would it be possible to put a network of drainage (more than Glen Ogle) into big storm drains (style as seen in Los Angeles car chase films, but slightly smaller) and get the water off the hill?
Maintenance would be to keep the drains clear. Because this would be before a fall, drainage repair should not interfere with traffic.
Initial expense would be less than for galleries, probably less than a new road. (Think maybe of digging 2 (or 4) miles of ditch, but no need for a smooth, relatively level surface for running water downhill)
In the longer term, though, regular patrols and flume clearance are dearer than maintaining the carriageway, but the A83 might continue to need this anyway.(The wigwag sign leaflets do mention drainage and culverts, but at a lower priority than the debris fences (for 100 tons of debris))
http://www.transportscotland.gov.uk/files/documents/roads/Wig-Wag_leaflet.pdf
Get the water off the hill! It can’t be that easy, though?
Walter Burton
PS For our German tourists. The “Dam Busters” film wouldn’t have been nearly as impressive if they’d only drained the water off first!
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‘Illegal’ – needing planning permission? libellous? packed with porkies? – we need enlightenment.
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Don;t know. Probably no more than exhausted campaigners throwing everything at it in the last day, with helpers who stick things up all over the place.
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Is it fair to publish something that is only heresay about two candidates, whoever they are? If you don’t have a clue what has happened why bother saying anything – unless, of course, you have a personal bias.
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This is what we need in the election.
Heresy! Heresy! Burn them! Burn them!
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Was Vivien Dance nailing them to trees with a big bulldozer?
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So long as “illegal” doesn’t mean “everyone else’s”.
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See what happened there Lowry??
Newsie comes on with a non-story – non attributed, no quotes and no evidence. You ask a more than reasonable question and the next two posters – Crazy and Stepehen ignore your poiint and comment on the Newsie’s non-story.
Gawd help us all if these half-wit zealots get in…
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The SNP must be better mannered in Helensburgh than they are in Kintyre as Unionist posters were ripped down there within hours.
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Unionist posters?
What are those?
And does your correspondent, echoes of good old kintyre1, have any substantive evidence to support his implied charge?
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I wonder what has happened to ‘good old Kintyre 1′?
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It happens in the Dunoon and Cowal area also.
We know who does it but they come out with excuses like “do you have substantive evidence to support this implied charge” or “it wisnae me, a big boy done it and ran away”
But guess what? Their posters stay up!!!!
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The fact that ” their ” posters remain untouched is all the evidence needed as to the culprits
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WCHB – Are you sure you didn’t mean “Hearsay! Hearsay! Burn them! Burn them!”????
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No, Simon
That’s what Lowry meant.
Pay attention, please.
On second thoughts, the “Burn them!” should be deleted for Health and Safety reasons
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To see the Helensburgh Lomond candidates in action…see http://helensburgh.tv/threads/360-2012-political-broadcasts
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Recommended.
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Pending the announcement of what constitutes an illegal election poster, a light-hearted post was responded to with a light hearted comment.
In future such comments will be marked JOKE, to help those with a irony deficiency.
Serious comments will be marked SERIOUS, to help those with a reality deficiency.
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Vivien Dance smiling benignly at the Princess Royal as both stood on the Victoria Hall steps, as seen on the front page of the Helensburgh Advertiser, when Mrs Dance had been explicitly banned from the property because of the election ‘purdah’ – how does that shape up with the rules?
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Did the Princess Royal remember to curtsey?
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Stpehen – but if you mark them JOKE – then they are supposed to be funny!!!
The ‘light-hearted post’ and ‘light hearted comment’ were about as funny as week in jail.
Have a good day
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Simon, have you actually ever had a week in Jail? Bangkok Hilton perhaps?
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Simon – I think that might be what Stephen meant by an irony deficiency.
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Yes, Simon appears to have fallen into my troll-pit. Can I refer him to the sage advice of that great actor, Whil Wheaton?
FWIW, outside my polling station in Helensburgh today posters for Dance, Mulvaney and Robb, but not anyone else. Also bonus sighting of Mulvaney wandering down the street, looking a little lost.
(JOKE/SUBJECTIVE COMMENT)
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