Comment posted Is For Argyll for Argyll? by Simon.
I regretted the original poster withdrawing his article as he made some very telling points in a few sentences and in particlaur he wondered why there was no coverage in FA of the Sunday Herald article on Cambeltown and Dunoon being the two most at risk rural town in Scotland.
Perhaps as evidence of this decline only this week and for the second year running one man has been murdered and another stabbed in a related incident.
No mention of this FA either.
Recent comments by Simon
- 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.
powered by SEO Super Comments
how about putting it at the top of the left hand side bar with a For Argyll logo on it that way when a link to one of your articles is put up on the likes of Facebook your logo is one of the options in the thumbnail.. at the moment there is all the campaign logos but no choice to use your own !
Like or Dislike:
0 
0
The whole navigation could do with some rejigging. A lot of it seems too spread out and the forargyll banner doesnt stand out very well among the various multicoloured campaigns/sections.
Like or Dislike:
0 
0
Thanks Struan. These points will be taken into account in the next site revision.
Like or Dislike:
0 
0
I regretted the original poster withdrawing his article as he made some very telling points in a few sentences and in particlaur he wondered why there was no coverage in FA of the Sunday Herald article on Cambeltown and Dunoon being the two most at risk rural town in Scotland.
Perhaps as evidence of this decline only this week and for the second year running one man has been murdered and another stabbed in a related incident.
No mention of this FA either.
Like or Dislike:
0 
0
Simon, I do believe that since there is a small staff at FA, perhaps covering all stories might sometimes be awkward.
However, there is also the facility for you to write up the Dunoon issues yourself and see if they will publish them
Like or Dislike:
0 
0
It would have been nice to have read that post, shame i missed it before the selective censorship of FA imposed itself (though had it been abusive then i would support the actions of FA). Perhaps you would like to summarise the main points. Personally i find FA a bit of a curates egg, excellent coverage in some areas, other areas not so good.
Like or Dislike:
0 
0
‘Selective censorship’ is a quite dishonest ‘spin’.
May I remind you that we had willingly published the message – and later removed it out of courtesy to the reader who had not intended the message to be published. We obviously had no problems with publishing it, although we would have done so anyway, as we always do.
Like or Dislike:
0 
0
Personally, I find it terribly difficult to reply to the article in general rather than to any specific comment. (I think other commentors have remarked on the same problem in the past.) The heading “Leave a Reply” and the button “Post Comment” don’t work intuitively for me (perhaps because I can’t see them both in one vertical screen, but in any case “Leave a Reply” isn’t an action-area at all, so far as I can discern, and “Post Comment” seems to invite me to post a blank comment. FA — plz work on this).
Also, would it be possible to have “Like/Dislike” boxes on the article itself, not just on comments? I would quite like sometimes to “Like” an article, in itself.
Like or Dislike:
0 
0
I was one of those who commented on the original article and was hilarious, charming whilst still cool, calm and collected – unfortunately that post has been deleted and none of you will ever realise how delightful I can be. However do note that you have it on good authority that all that I have said above is true.
I can’t understand why people get frustrated about whether or not a story has a tangible connection to Argyll. ‘For Argyll’ is just a name and can be interpreted in many ways. I don’t recall a collection of malcontent New Yorkers desperately scrabbling for tales of Bugles in the Daily Bugle.
The headline of a story, the vast majority of the time, provides enough information to allow a person to decide whether or not they want to read an article. If that doesn’t then the opening paragraph will do so (in conjunction with the headline).
If you don’t like a story or are not interested in the topic then don’t read it. If you find that the overall collection of stories within the site are no longer addressing what you want them to then move on to a different site that does. Dictating what should and shouldn’t be covered to a website run by people who are unpaid and don’t charge for reading the site seems a little like ‘it’s your ball and you’re not playing with it’
If there is an issue in A&B that you don’t feel has been covered by Newsroom then by all means flag it – it could be they have missed it and may welcome the heads up. However do it with a bit of common decency by the contact us link or e-mail – using it as a reason to criticise them is a bit childish. It could be that they have good reason for not running a story on it and they will probably be prepared to back that up. It could also be because they are a bit bloody busy and they haven’t had a chance to get round to it yet. It could also be because they are still looking into it to get more info.
Of course there is always the option of writing your own article and submitting it.
Personally I welcome For Argyll paying cognisance to stories from within and outwith Argyll – doesn’t mean I read all of them, just means I am selective. I certainly wouldn’t criticise them, or any of their writers for their choice of topic or content of their articles. I also recognise the good it has done in terms of bringing together like minded people, or people with a common cause, from different corners of Scotland, down South and also in far away sunnier places. There is nothing to be gained from being too provincial in our consideration about issues that affect Argyll.
Like or Dislike:
0 
0
Thanks to Simon i read the article that he referred to, i found it quite interesting. I also accept the point from She Bat that not all things can be covered in FA all of the time due to limited resources and if it is covered elsewhere why repeat it. As for reply 6, a little verbose, but it makes a point, what happens in AB is discussed way beyond the region, you may be surprised how many people care about what happens here.
Like or Dislike:
0 
0