Comment posted SNP’s Coalition for Progress now has a majority – 19 councillors by Simon.
Well, well – it looks like a new administration in Kilmory. The best of luck to them – given the challenges the area faces – they’ll certainly need it.
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- 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.
- Minutes of today’s meeting of ‘Concerned Councillors’ Group
Neil, whilst you might not care what the SNP do or don’t do the fact remains that right now it’s the SNP that are the problem. They are the largest group and whilst they have indeed been found wanting they remain the problem and that is a problem that requires to be dealt with.The SNP cannot agree amongst themselves, they attack each other in public with increasingly vitriolic language and are quite simply bereft of ideas. To judge just how bereft they are consider there last three leaders – MCCusih, good man honest and upfront and wouldn’t bow to Breslin’s resignation threat; Robb not in the same mould as Roddy , cold, calculating not afraid to be abrasive but smart nevertheless; Sandy Taylor….well Sandy Taylor, the ‘who?’ man of SNP politics in Argyll.
Now to be fair the SNP are attempting to bury the hatchets – but unfortunately still in their ‘colleagues’ heads.
So, the opposition best get their act together and stich up once and for all this pile of puffed-up parodies of politicians that is the SNP in Argyll and Bute.
Gawd’s truth – imagine if ye had voted fir them!!! How embarrassed would ye be now?
- New SNP group leader unable to keep the sheep in the pen
H20 – are you the same H20 that on Cowal Courier is calling for Cllrs McCuish, Robb and Semple to be removed from the SNP for ‘bringing it into disrepute’???So, the SNP’s Civil war and personalised attacks on fellow SNP ‘colleagues’ is still going well then???
Mmmm?
- New SNP group leader unable to keep the sheep in the pen
Well if this is all idle gossip what’s the real story then?Peace has broken out and the SNP are all unified once again?
You have a(nother) Leader you can all unite around?
There will be no more factionalism?
You will work for the benefit of the people rather than yourselves?
you will no longer sneak-off to the media leaking stories against your particular SNP colleagues/bogeyman or bogeywomen or describe in the press your fellow SNP Cllrs as “traitors” and “duplicitous” ?
Any of that true??
Or are you like Anne are you just claiming to be in the loop ??
Mmmm?
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There is a God after all, hallelujah! ….Sweet
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WOOOOOOHOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WELL DONE EVERYONE!
Now lets all go to Dunoon on Thursday for a party! hehehe
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A new dawn – I just hope that the SNP group don’t ever forget that once upon a time they were in bed with Walsh & co, and resist any future temptations to make inappropriate pacts with unsuitable partners – or their past will come back to haunt them.
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The example of the Alliance should never be forgotten in terms of a descent into ‘anything goes’ that should never be replicated.
The best guarantee is Roddy McCuish’s nature which has been steadfastly honest. The challenge for him will be to hang on to that in the face of anything – and that is bound at some point to bring its difficulties.
We have all seen politicians who have become little more than holograms after selling off any semblance of integrity. It is hard – now – to imagine the straightforward Roddy McCuish committing or permitting any departure in that direction.
We will be as much on watch with this administration as with any other. And, as we have said, the presence of the Argyll First group is both reassurance and canary.
It is not the number of bodies in the coalition that matters, it is the substance of those bodies.
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Crazy; Hope you’ve got your tin hat on for when the surfers and trolls start throwing their toys out of their cots!!
Voters in Dunoon have a clear choice now, conflict or Coalition for Progress.
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No fair!!
There goes my hope of a SUPER School based in H’burgh which can accomodate 199000 children from sunday evening to friday afternoon.
Mortons? are you reading this??
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Hooray for the coalition and the honest-as-the-day-is-long postie McCuish. Looking round the virtual room containing them all I see so many people I trust. I can’t remember when we last had a council ruling group I could say that about! Now I am going to burn their ears off about protecting our amazing heritage and celebrating our astounding culture. Who will they get to lead that particular charge?
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Go for it, Catherine. Burn all the ears. This issue needs a lightening strike – to be the best.
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you will not be alone Catherine… there was plenty of support for what we have in the landscape around us this weekend by the Scottish Place Names Society conference.
Some of us may only be small voices but together we have the most vital message to shout about.
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18 months of effort and personal loss just became worthwhile. My kids have a better future and I look forward to them enjoying it.
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I am thrilled and delighted for Argyll and Bute. Roddy will prove an excellent leader and has an excellent team around him.
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To quote Private Fraser,”We’re doomed”.
I predict that turnout in Cowal will be very low. The exercise will be largely pointless.
It certainly raises the question of whether in the case of the death of a candidate the whole council election should be postponed and not just the ward.
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Councillor Donald Kelly , the Von Papen of Argyll and Bute Council ?
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Historically inacurate. Surely you mean a reverse von papan. ie.Facilitating the removal of a dictator to be replaced by democracy.
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Try doing a Von Papen Wikipedia search and read the first paragraph .
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Okay, I read that just in case memory had abandoned me and I deem you to be either offensive or plain uninformed.
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Me too, before reply
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The election on Thursday is far from meaningless. The composition of the Cowal and Bute Area committee will be determined by it.
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Will Councillor Isobel Strong be in charge of education ?
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Do I detect some soor grapes there Islay?
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LOL! I’ve no idea who’ll be in charge of education but I’ll warrant if it’s Isobel Strong some council officials could be feeling very sorry for themselves!
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I spy kintyre1 in a new guise.
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OK, wishlist time! Who do we want in the leadership roles?
I think George Freeman should definitely get some kind of leaders post back for all that he lost and gave up.
We need able people to deal with the Officers who unexplicably think they are in charge – hahaha – to be a fly on the Kilmory walls this morning!
Answers on a postcard
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Friday evening I was feeling a bit deflated with the results. Come Monday and I am euphoric. Same results but a different outcome. I am so glad that Cllr Elaine Robertson has joined the Coalition (the good one that is!). She is held in great respect in North Argyll but her membership of the Alliance was straining relationships. Early signs that Roddy is going to make an excellent leader of the Council.
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What a breath of fresh air we now have to get the good guys back in Cowal on Thursday and really give Dick Welsh the message closed door nepotism in our council is finished
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Great news. Hope they put James Robb in charge of the Helensburgh and Lomond Area Committee.
Small point: Rosneath’s Robert McIntyre is not new to local politics. He represented Rosneath and Clynder on a previous local authority.
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Helensburgh District in 1968
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Good morning folks how about some predictions.
Dick Walsh will pull out of the election on Thursday as he would rather do the garden now.
Duncan MacIntyre will retire and buy a boat to tour the west coast looking for potential pontoon sites.
By election in the North and with the backing of Lowry and JayC, Donald Melville will sail in with the help of his new kayak.
Or will Easdale go for Independence and elect Duncan as El Presidentee? Who said life in Argyll was quiet, all we need now is Trump moving to Tiree to build a new golf course and Murdock to buy the Oban Times and we have the lot.
Power to the People.
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Awww thanks for thinking of me but alas I’m in the wrong ward for my vote to count. Power to the people, well 93% of them anyway! Have a nice day.
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I would not be so hasty. Mr Walsh has, in the past, shown himself to be a very shrewd operator. And it is not unheard of for people who did think they would go with one grouping to then change their minds.
So while this McCuish coalition looks *probable*, I would wait until after the Dunoon count before cracking open the bubbly.
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For Mairi.
Do you think that Dick Walsh will go in with Roddy’s coalition if he’s elected surely not?
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would like to think that my drunken lecture on Friday swung oor Bobbie round but I don’t care as long as the Dick Walsh ring of power is broken!!
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For Neil MacIntyre and Mairi, there are some members of the Alliance who are “person non grata” and who would not be welcomed into the new coalition. Prior to Friday there were six. That has now reduced to four. It does not take a genious to work out who they are.
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Hi DB, your “drunken lecture” and the advice from other community contacts on Friday and Saturday would have helped. I did spend some time on the phone late on Saturday night and standing on Peaton Hill on Sunday morning explaining the various options to Robert. I have no doubt that along with me, he has taken the best decision as far as his constituents are concerned. After all, it is our communities and our constituents who are the most important people.
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Well, well – it looks like a new administration in Kilmory. The best of luck to them – given the challenges the area faces – they’ll certainly need it.
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I hope the new coalition brings the new approach that Kilmory needs and the correct persons are given the jobs that will turn round Argyll and Bute and help people who elected this new grouping
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Real progress at last for honest decent people.
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O/T – slightly
Have a look at Gerry Hassan’s (intelligent) comment on the Glasgow result at http://www.gerryhassan.com/blog/the-story-the-media-should-have-told-you-about-glasgow/
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