Comment posted Dunoon Ward count and RESULT by Islay for ever.
Are you seriously suggesting that Donald Kelly’s endorsement of the SNP candidate was not known by people in Dunoon ? I suggest it is you who is the joker
Islay for ever also commented
- The Conservative and Unionist candidate had to contend with Conservative and Unionist Councillor Donald Kelly instructing the electorate to vote for the SNP candidate . Time for Councillor Kelly to be put out the party .
- Congratulations to all the elected councillors and to Dick Walsh on topping the poll
Recent comments by Islay for ever
- McGrigor writes to Minister on Campbeltown Hospital
Correction – It was SNP councillors who were “happy” for Struan House to close , not me.
I think it is insane to reduce the facilities to care for old people when their numbers are increasing and set to increase much more . - McGrigor writes to Minister on Campbeltown Hospital
Thank goodness we have one MSP willing to speak up for the Kintyre community .
‘Local’ MSP Michael Russell has been nowhere to be seen on these issues .
It’s past time Argyll & Bute had a MSP to fight for the constituency not one who spends his well paid time trying to destroy the United Kingdom . - Argyll and Bute Council Coalition Cup 2013: runners and riders
Has jockey Donald Kelly given up trying to ride two horses at once ?
Elected as a Conservative & Unionist he prefers now to be known as Argyll First . - First Minister’s choice not to condemn mob behaviour proves Farage point
The issue is not whether people like Nigel Farage , the issue is whether we live in a country where we have free speech .
Clearly , there are people in Scotland , in this case left wingers who support separation who believe their opponents should be silenced by violence if necessary .
Worrying and disgusting as that fact is , the most disturbing aspect of this episode has been the response from what could be called the establishment in Scotland .
The First Minister , other MSPs including all the SNP MSPS ,Green MSP Patrick Harvie , BBC Scotland , Scottish Socialists and too many others have failed completely to defend the right of an individual to free speech against the threats of a mob . Indeed , some have clearly relished the fact that an Englishman got roughed up in broad daylight in one of Scotland’s main public spaces .
Sadly we are all the losers . Many like our friend above will now see Scotland as a place to avoid , as an inward looking anti English intolerant land .
Representatives and supporters of the Conservative Party in Scotland have long had to suffer personal abuse , threats and intimidation from these sorts of people and now it appears as if the terror has spread from attacks in cyberspace and on the Conservative Party to anyone who dares to challenge the Tommy Sheridan view of how Scotland should be .
Perhaps we should not be surprised when we have a so called Justice Minister who openly flouted the law over the Community Charge . When Ministers start choosing which laws to obey then the future for our country is bleak and a wave of emigration the likely outcome if they were ever to achieve their ambition of a one party state . - Council latest: meaning well is not enough
Who can forget all the talk of the “progressives” gaining control of Argyll & Bute after the last local elections .
It appears to me , rather than progress the area is going backwards at speed .
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Michael Breslin is a great addition to the new administration and just the right person for the education brief.
That was the sober bit.
Yaaaaaaaaaaaayyyyyyyyyyyyyy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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If you actually know MB so well as you say, is it not a little premature to declare how he is “just the right person for the education brief”
Any new councillor needs time to find his way and MB will be no different. If he does a good job, I will be the first to say.
The Dunoon Primary School campus issue could be an early test for him.
How sober you are when you make comments on FA is up to others to judge!
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I am thrilled for Mike Breslin, he ran a super campaign and thoroughly deserves his seat at Kilmory. Its my birthday today (friday) and to see a new SNP councillor elected to the Argyll and Bute team gives me double cause for celebration.
mike will prove to be a very able asset to Argyll and Bute, to his Dunoon ward and to the SNP,
Well done!
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Happy Birthday, Ron.
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Imagine being so mean-minded to actively not wish a happy birthday to a fellow human being.
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Well done to Mike Breslin who will be an outstanding councillor and player in the new council.
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He must have employed the “da do ron ron” effect
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Congratulations to all the elected councillors and to Dick Walsh on topping the poll
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Argyll and Bute Final result as on Application Forms to be a Councillor.
Independents 15 SNP 13 Tory 4 Lib Dems 4
Congratulations to all elected.
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Fuller result ;
First Preference votes as under
Breslin (SNP) 663 Elected at 1st stage
Green (Con) 94
McQueen (Ind) 432 Elected at 5th stage
Miles (LibDem)105
Rice (Labour)296
Walsh (Ind) 777 Elected at 1st stage
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“We dropped the ball when we got our own parliament. We could have done things very differently but we just imported the old imperial model from Westminster and got shouting.”
Watch the Welsh model (BBC Parliament channel) and Holyrood comes a poor second in this respect. There may well be lots of sweary-words employed but as I don’t speak Welsh….
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Just looking at the votes, we see that the TORIES could only attract 94 votes and less that 4% of the total vote compared with 239 votes (7.27%) in 2007.
The LIB DEMS only managed to scrape 105 votes and less than 4.5% of the total vote compared with 2007 when they managed 257 (7.82%) of the total vote.
We see Jimmy McQueen going from 754 votes in 2007 to only 432 yesterday. Certainly passed his sell by date and should now think about standing down.
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The Conservative and Unionist candidate had to contend with Conservative and Unionist Councillor Donald Kelly instructing the electorate to vote for the SNP candidate . Time for Councillor Kelly to be put out the party .
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‘Strategic voting’, maybe? and since when did that justify excommunication, or are you perhaps pursuing a personal vendetta?
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Great result for Michael Breslin. Now the successful Councillors have to get down to business and bring Argyll and Bute Council into an open and transparent organisation fit for purpose.
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Islay for ever
Very few people in Dunoon have heard of Cllr Donald Kelly and I can assure you none of them heard him urging them to vote SNP.
Keep the jokes coming
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Are you seriously suggesting that Donald Kelly’s endorsement of the SNP candidate was not known by people in Dunoon ? I suggest it is you who is the joker
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The only Kelly I have heard of came from the Isle of Man – any relation?
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I hope Breslin isn’t Russell’s lapdog!
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Well at least we know he’s not Dick’s
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Lapdog? Michael Breslin? You haven’t met him then?
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Have you? Mike was a member of the Labour Party some time ago.
Hopefully he will have retained the values he supported then and will become a successful councillor for the Dunoon ward.
I would be very disappointed if Mike was to fall into the normal negative outlook of other snp contributors to this blog.
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Yes I’ve met him and he does retain good values. Why would he not? I have no doubt he’ll be a great councillor both for Dunoon and for Argyll & Bute.
You need to think about why you feel the SNP contributions are negative because mostly I read them the other way round. I enjoy being a member of the SNP because it’s upbeat and hopeful, even when the going is hard. I imagine you feel the same about your party? The idea that the Labour party has a monopoly on being positive or having values is a tad misguided. At very least you should be able to see that we have some things in common.
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Have you considered that he may have left the Labour Party because of the values which he supported? A common complaint among many of those who moved from Labour to the SNP is that it was the Labour Party whose values changed as they became almost indistinguishable from the Tories. That trend continues and unholy alliances between them in Councils all over Scotland only proves the point.
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Andy
To be fair most parties are ‘guilty’ of that. The SNP have gone into an alliance with Labour in Edinburgh, with the Lib Dems and Labour in Highland Council, and Lib Dems in the Borders.
At local government level I have no real problem with varying coalitions as I see a difference between local and national politics. At local level it should be about whether the majority party trust those they go into coalition with and whether they feel they have the necessary skills and experience.
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Gus,
Read your own comment at the head of this item which calls into question both Cllr Breslin’s ability to perform his duties and Anne Baird’s sobriety.
Would you think either suggestion was positive?
I wish them both, along with all other Council members, all success as they grapple with the severe problems faced across Argyll & Bute.
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I’m sure Mike has retained the values that has guided his political activity.
There are very many members of the SNP – perhaps even a majority – who were Labour members or supporters.
The actual question for them was how much of Labour’s leadership retains any of the values that built the Labour Party.
These values appear largely to have been abandoned which allows Labour to join into coalitions with the Tories all over Scotland.
Gus is obviously the last to know.
Power at any cost appears to be Labour’s guiding value.
Despite a slowing of the process due to a relentless campaign of smears on Alex Salmond in all the media this latest cynical behaviour assures that the process of Labour being replaced by the SNP in many parts of Scotland will relentlessly continue.
Gus appears to imagine that anyone who doesn’t agree with him deserves personal offence.
No political benefit accrues from that
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Who have I personally offended???
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You don’t half talk some keech Dave – oh ye of the gratutitous insult.
So, how come the nats never selected you as a candidate?
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But Simon the nats have previously selected Dave as a candidate…honestly they have! I know it’s hard to believe.
I’m sure now you have brought up the subject he will be only too pleased to let you know the results.
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Ken
You are, as usual being very selective with your comments.
I said above “if he does a good job,I will be the first to say”
Are you saying the Dunoon Primary issue will not be an early test?
Anne mentioned the word sober first,my comment was certainly not negative, if you read again I said it was for others to judge.
I said of Mike “Hopefully he will have retained the values he supported then and will become a successful councillor for the Dunoon ward.
Very positive comment don’t you think?
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Anne Gus? Is this the same person rejected by the electorate in Kintyre? The ‘I will not answer difficult questions’ Anne?
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“Simon”: rage against the dying light all you want to but fact is that we won, you didn’t. It’s a new dawn it’s a new day .. and hopefully everything is going to be all right (certainly can’t be worse than the previous “Simon” backed shower).
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Oh I know you won “doc” I saw the on-line lynch mob on here shortly afterwards demanding revenge and demanding heads.
A new dawn? A new day? Pardon me erst I vomit…
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That Novo virus gets around—- better take some immodium just in case!! (enough for 5 years)
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For Anne Baird,
My comments concerning Mike Breslin were not negative, I merely pointed out that I would be disappointed if he was to fall into the normal negative outlook of other snp contributors eg. K.M. and D.H.
Yes I am upbeat and hopeful about my party.
I have never said we have a monopoly on being positive or having values, and I can assure you we are not misguided.
Yes we have some things in common, just as we have our differences.I personally had some interesting conversations with snp members I met during the election campaign.
The coalition in Edinburgh is a good example of how parties can work together.
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I’ll just repost the main part of my last post. Perhaps then instead of silly bluster the substantive points it makes can be addressed….like “Labour values”
As Gus himself has indicated many people operating politically in Scotland USED TO BE MEMBERS OF THE LABOUR PARTY.
“There are very many members of the SNP – perhaps even a majority – who were Labour members or supporters.
The actual question for them was how much of Labour’s leadership retains any of the values that built the Labour Party.
These values appear largely to have been abandoned which allows Labour to join into coalitions with the Tories all over Scotland.
Power at any cost appears to be Labour’s guiding value.
Despite a slowing of the process due to a relentless campaign of smears on Alex Salmond in all the media this latest cynical behaviour assures that the process of Labour being replaced by the SNP in many parts of Scotland will relentlessly continue.”
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If you cannot answer why repost the same old crap
If you cannot answer why repost the same old crap?
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Hmmmm, this got me wondering…
whatever happened to Kintyre1?
Re: Lynch Mob
I think I already said this, but I have been demanding “heads” for a year and a half now – hardly since the election results.
You all seem to be getting hung up on who’s played for which team here…
Can I suggest that politics are an evolving entity? As values of people and parties change and adapt to circumstances, it is possible that candidates no longer find they can support the parties they used to.
Its an organic thing and perhaps here in Argyll, we are seeing the next phase of politics already, where we have people who support their party at a national level, but don’t at a local level.
Some will do so for survival reasons, but some will also do so as genuine honest people wanting only the best for the people they represent and feel they can do so better as an independent or even under the umbrella of another organisation.
Whoa, that was deep for Sunday morning coming from me
Discuss please
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Gus “But Simon the nats have previously selected Dave as a candidate” – can hardly believe that!!
Surely a man of his stature and ability must have been elected?
Him and Anne whatshernamethingy as well, down yon way in Kintyre?????
Shoe-ins both of them….
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Any thoughts yet on why so many Labour members are joining the SNP and will be voting Yes at the referendum?
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Simon – Have you noticed DH is reluctant to tell you about his time as a candidate in the council elections ?
He seems to be trying to change the subject to something he has no evidence for!
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“This sketch is getting silly”.
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Now I DID notice that Gus.
It seems pretty obvious that if he was ever selected then Dave McEwan Hill got trounced/disowned/banned/deselected or whatever.
My guess though Gus is that whatewver the reason – like our Amatuer Anne – he won’t answer a straight question either.
Have a nice night people
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As a matter of interst I have contested for the SNP at town council, regional council, district council and parliamentary election on 7 occasions. I gave all that up ten years ago when I turned 60 and in fact stood in Dunoon Ward around then as paper candidate (ie name on ballot, no campaign) merely to ensure that there was an SNP candidate in each ward.
Virtually all of my contests were decades ago when only the brave stood for the SNP and I am very proud to have played my part in carrying the SNP and the independence message from a position in the 60s when it was attracting less than 1% of the vote to a position as the biggest political organisation in Scotland. I have respect for all political activists of all parties who stand for election but none at all for those who provide puerile jibes without putting themselves to the judgement of the voters
I missed a seat on Hamilton Town Council in 1968 on a recount. That was the year the Labour Party had asked me to stand for them but in those days the SNP and Labour got on well and respected each other.
But that was before London sold the movement out. There are still good people in the Labour party and my sympathy is with them. As I watch the Tories, whose vote dropped again, being brought back into power in coalitions with Labour in many parts of Scotland I wonder what these good people are thinking. This is a gift to the SNP.
I will ask (as many good Labour people are now asking) when did Labour (which was a home rule party till 1954) become the Labour and Unionist Party?
No doubt we shall get a selection of infantile comments to this post
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Told you Simon! He’s a veteran of council elections. Though I’m not sure confessions of Hamilton TC are of relevance to standing in Argyll and Bute.
“That was the year the Labour Party asked me to stand for them” ,evidence??????
He still has not provided answers to the question of his attempts to be elected in Argyll and Bute(other than to say he was a paper candidate in ward 7)
The rest of his post is as usual what he would call positive, and I would call mince!
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Is it just my imagination or have the anti-SNP platoon on here become distinctly nastier in tone and in the nature of their personal attacks since the elections?
Sore losers I guess.
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Naw, you were right the first time “doc”: it’s your imgination.
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If so we have a long way to go to catch up with the nats!
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Gus, actually the “nats” have shown a great deal of forebearance over the years. I’ve been heckled, harrassed, lied about and even physically assaulted by members of the Labour party, but I prefer to think of those as the bad old days.
In an Argyll & Bute context I’ve met Labour members who will lay down the axe and work with others for the common good. Similarly I will do all I can to support them for the same reason. Since the only fundamental difference is the independence issue, on an issue by issue basis there’s a great deal to agree on. Our positive attitude has meant that many Labour members, and voters, have felt able to come on board. In the bad old days that wouldn’t have happened. Times and priorities have changed.
Please think hard about who the enemy actually is and ask yourself what will be the best we can all do at a time when the poorest and most vulnerable in society are bearing the brunt of the consequences of silly bankers playing games with our economy.
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The labs that contribute to this site should take heart from the good socialist members of their chosen party.
Lord Mcconnell, Lord Reid, Lord Watson, Lord Foulkes, Lord Gordon, Lord Hughes, Baroness Liddel, Lord Maxton, Lord McAvoy, Lord O’Neill, Lord Mcfaul, Lord Robertson and even the “I will never bow to any capitalist” Lord Prescott.
Anything to find a way to bring in money without any real effort, nothing new. They profess to represent ordinary people but forget their origins when the opportunity presents itself.
No wonder real working people are leaving the Labs in droves
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I have always felt that Lord Maxton was the ultimate betrayal.
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http://www.scotsman.com/the-scotsman/opinion/comment/brian-monteith-prime-example-of-why-the-tories-must-change-1-2279075
This is for the perusal of Kintyre1 / Islayforever
Just goes to show……..
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Selection of infantile posts initially as expected after my last post and then some sensible,thoughful stuff from people with a serious interest in the main issues.
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Still no answer to the question from DH re his election results?
The usual repetitive stuff from the others. Zzzzzzzzzz!
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As usual personal attacks are the norm for those who have no substance to argue. Labour have no ideas, no care or concern for the disadvantaged, no plan to advance forward, and don’t forget who got us into the financial situation in the first place. Gordon I am the greatest Brown. Spent all the money ran up the national debt, put nothing away in reserve. Tried to claim all the credit for the boom, then when the bust came which he said was a thing of the past, it was everybody’s fault except his. Why did Labour fail to put controls on the banks when they had the chance. last but not least don’t forget who gave Fred Goodwin his knighthood, it was not the Easter Bunny.
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