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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. - First Minister’s call for ‘grown up politics’ countered by order – from the top
What’s ROTFL, J? - Russell to make parliamentary statement on rural schools today
This is a shamefully mischievous argument designed to support the SNP party political line which the substantial majority of its own councillors – 9 out of 11 – reject; and to do so by fostering the division between Argyll and Bute’s four administrative areas that the drivers of the SNP civil war found it useful to create.
Trying to harden up the blame game on Helensburgh is another way of playing the man and not the argument.
The issue is whether political decisions are made for the good of Argyll and Bute as a whole – or in the traditional pic’n'mix disbursement of favours to particular areas, usually to the ones that shout loudest.
What we are now seeing is the move from the vicious demonising of individuals to the demonising of an entire area.
Helensburgh undoubtedly contributes substantially to Argyll – and if you would like to enter into and sustain a serious and informed debate on economics, let’s hear you.
Picking on Helensburgh with accusations of self-interested isolationism ignores utterly the situation where Dunoon is perfectly prepared to see elderly care throughout the rest of Argyll suffer, provided it can keep open a care home which for some time has had a single digit number of residents.
We have ALL to find the will to move beyond this entrenched self-centredness and act in the interests of the greater good.
With this nasty little comment, we appear to be looking at a political prospectus where the union within Argyll and Bute is every bit as unwelcome to SNP activists as is the union within the UK.
So if we keep on reducing the boundaries of the holy land, where will it stop? St Kilda? Now that really is the exemplar of why ‘ourselves alone’ is ultimately inadequate.
Eventually this frightful schismatism you display stops at the skin of the individual and amounts to nothing more than a self-satisfied, narcissistic campaign against everything beyond that personal border.
The best in life, at all levels, comes from teamwork – and no one imagines that teamwork is feel-good easy – just massively rewarding if you make it work.
It ought also to be noted that your own party hierarchy’s instruction to its locally elected representatives, actively removes the opportunity for the majority of Helensburgh councillors to ‘join in’ – unless, of course, your vision of ‘joining in’ is agreeing to what is promulgated in the SNP’s version of ‘the big house’, with plenty of cap doffing.
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A special thanks to your website for taking an interest in the Gertrude Canning Story. As Gertrude’s nephew who has been researching her life and death I am delighted your newsroom has offered an overview of this young woman’s tragic death. I hope your viewers/readers/bloggers etc found it of interest..
As a family we are looking forward to travelling to Inveraray to pay our respects to our Aunt Gertrude – though the events planned om Saturday 30th June 2012
The interest and support show by the scottish people and in particular the community in Inveraray has been welcomed and very much appreciated to date.
The primary role of my research into Gertrudes death has been driven by a desire to understand better the life and regrettably the circumstances surrounding her tragic death.
As we approach the end of this journey, I can achieve this goal has been reached and will be culminated in the commerations planned for Saturday the 30th June 2012 – 70 years after her death.
I am in the process of documenting in book form Gertrude’s life and subsequent death and all matters associated with it. The commeration itself goes a long way to providing closure to her death.
I would be very keen to hear from anyone, including your website researchers in any matter relating to Gertrude as this may help provide the fullest picture for her story. I would welcome any correspondence / comments / expressions of interest from the website readership and can be contacted at lgcanning@hotmail.com. Any comment/correspondence will be treated in the strictest confidence.
I would also like to extent an open invitation to anyone who is interested in Gertrude’s story to join the Canning Family (and friends) at our event – especially at the War Memorial event in Inveraray Town, commencing approximately 1pm. You support is welcomed
Kindest regards
Liam Canning
Nephew of Gertrude Canning – murdered at Inveraray Argyll in 1942
lgcanning@hotmail.com
14th June 2012
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Back in the early 1970s I was working in an office in Manchester before I first came to Argyll, and can remember one of the associates, on hearing where I was going, reminiscing about his time at Inveraray during WW2, and I can distinctly remember him saying that there had sometimes been trouble, with so many troops there, including several murders. I can’t remember him saying any more than that, and maybe only this murder remains unexplained.
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May I, as my brother Liam did in an earlier post,thank you for the piece on the story (so far)of the tragedy of the killing of my aunt Gertrude,or Gertie.A well constructed and informative piece of journalism. A piece that was well researched and reported.It would be true to say that some poetic license has been taken by others in the past and was rushed to press.I have read all of them and may I say ,they have been “trumped”.As you know,our family and friends will be returning to INVERARAY for our personal tribute to Gertie with the help of some wonderful people and organisations in the town.Needless to say,when the deed is done,we will be having a thank you hooley and a ceilidh.I hope you will be there.
Once again,in appreciation,
Joe Canning
jmecan@hotmail.co.uk
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Could the author of the story – the piece above – please contact me at lgcanning.com so we can talk about this article further
liam Canning – Gertrude’s nephew
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Such a sad event.I think it’s beautiful that her nephews revisited the woods to remember her.
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I am a relative of the Cannings through my now deceased father Robert Duffy, I did meet the Canning family as a small child on a trip to Ireland with my parents, but do not remember much. I remember my mother telling me the story of Gertrude Cannings murder, and I do recall a newspaper clipping of the murder. On reaching adulthood this unsolved murder of Gertrude has often been on my mind.
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Welcome to the long lost clan Pat.I can remember being in Scotland with my mother,Madge as a very young boy.We stayed with Mrs.Duffy.I remember steps up to the front door of the house.I remember i got porridge with salt on it instead of sugar and being told off for not liking it.I was about 6yrs old….I’m 62 now.God bless.
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