Comment posted Minister at Machrihanish to mark community buyout of former RAF airbase by Simon.
Mm. Well I kinda like windfarms; much prefer them to coal/oil fired power stations or nuclear reactors.
Mind you I do like hydro and wave power as well.
C’mon the power has got to come from somewhere… even Alex Salmond’s surfeit of hot air couldnae heat Campbeltown…could it???
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- Lowry. Machrihanish – good place for a big wind farm??
Whatdja think?
- Well done MACC – it’s good to see rural communities like South Kintyre and Ulva Ferry school/community group actually doing something constructive.
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- Radically new council group changes all the dynamics: party politics dead in Argyll
What a motely collection of wannabees, has-beens, coulda-beens, the wee-vengeance-man and the absolutely anonymous.]Can’t do any worse than the shambolic SNP of course so that’s in their favour.
Still, the kiss of death for them of course would be if the SNP joined them…
- New SNP group leader unable to keep the sheep in the pen
So Jnr, “Like your tedious disingenuious Americanisms after each post haven’t we seen these very same observations in your posts”So you have no response to the points I’ve made.
Let’s face it – the SNP locally have been an embarrassment, a joke and a group who quite failed to deliver.
They messed up and guess what? They continue to mess up…. - New SNP group leader unable to keep the sheep in the pen
Yeah C’mon Anne – “Real news” is it? Enough of the ‘I know what you don’t know’ act – either piddle or get off the pot. - New SNP group leader unable to keep the sheep in the pen
Jnr Tick “So this is where your at Simon” ah the voice of the oppressed…Ignoring your grammar where I am at is in a perfectly justifiable easily defensible position FFS! (as you so eloquently put it…)
The SNP took control of Argyll and Bute a year ago.
They have had three ‘leaders’ in that time.
They have had two resignations (one sneaked back in I hear)
They have fragmented internally, personalised issues beyond belief and behaved like a bunch of spoilt brats rather than a mature political party.
They continue to attack each other publicly
They would apparently rather attack their own than their opposition
They ‘leak’ and ‘spin’ to the media to support their faction and vilify their ‘colleagues’
They are incapable of collegiate performance to the extent that the party national has had to step in.
They have been an unmitigated DISASTER for Argyll and Bute.
And, therefore it is fair to surmise that if we elected these numpties into real national power they would be a disaster there as well.
Now, which part of the above would you take issue with? Where have I lied? Tell me please what a success the SNP have made of their time in Argyll and Bute??
I’m waiting (yawn, yawn….)
Have a nice evening.
- New SNP group leader unable to keep the sheep in the pen
H20 – Oh I don’t have any inside knowledge. Just an observer from afar who can see that the factionalism within the SNP (as exemplified by your own sweet contribution) will run and run.I remember Dave-three-names coming on here thundering on about how he ‘joined the SNP to make things better – not to make them worse’.
Impressive sloganizing from a master. But the question is this – has the election of the SNP as the largest ‘Group’(and I use that word in its widest sense) beena good thing for Argyll and Bute?
Have the SNP captivated the people with their unified vision of the future?
Have the SNP begun to resolve the long-standing and endemic challenges of the area?
Have the SNP shown, by example, that they are no longer a party of protest but a party that is unified and capable of governing Argyll and well as they would govern Scotland?
Or have they been an amateurish embarrassment of egotists unable to deal with their problems internally preferring instead – like their ancestors in the Clans – the futile, suicidal headlong charge into oblivion?
As I said elsewhere – imagine if you had voted for them – what an embarrassment.
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Well done MACC – it’s good to see rural communities like South Kintyre and Ulva Ferry school/community group actually doing something constructive.
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Yes – definitely, well done to all.
The article in Scotland on Sunday “Revealed: Our rural towns on the brink” made very worrying reading. Let’s hope the Campbeltown community really make a go of this buy out and realise the potential that is within its population. Despite the Miniter’s congratulations, the Scottish Government certainly won’t.
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Lowry. Machrihanish – good place for a big wind farm??
Whatdja think?
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Well, there are two or three down there already, fairly well hidden. Another one was refused on appeal last year. The major offshore proposal seems to have bitten the dust, for now, but who knows what else is planned?! In my view, it would be a real shame to see such a beautiful area covered in the things, especially as there would be no increase in job opportunities to compensate.
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The Kintyre Offshore Wind Action Group did a superb job in demolishing a proposal for south west Kintyre that was fully astray. Their research, their sheer persistence in refusing to be rolled over and the volume of local support they had were unstoppable. some of the turbines proposed were practically on the beach at Machrihanish.
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Alas the on land area just above Machrihanish village is being tested for a future windfarm at this time . I sincerely hope there is enough opposition in the community to sucessfully oppose such a monstrousity
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Mm. Well I kinda like windfarms; much prefer them to coal/oil fired power stations or nuclear reactors.
Mind you I do like hydro and wave power as well.
C’mon the power has got to come from somewhere… even Alex Salmond’s surfeit of hot air couldnae heat Campbeltown…could it???
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Way to go Newsie, riding to the rescue and keeping the price down to a measely pound instead of mega bucks. Now off you go to Syria, twist Assad’s arm behind his back and tell him to stop killing his citizens. But seriously, a good news story and credit to MACC
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we voted many people hoping to start up new job ventures, but alas it seems all the useable building have been takenwith out the majarity getting a chance to bid a fair price on them. all done behind closed doors.
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Sounds like there is a need for more buildings then; the airfield has plenty of space and steel portal buildings are cheap, so there’s no excuse for not creating some mini- and micro-industrial units to stimulate local business.
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