Comment posted New Council Leader’s unambiguous clarification on Dinnergate by Barmore 2.
A donation from the senior officers of the Council would be far more appropriate!
Recent comments by Barmore 2
- Mount Stuart commission Turner Prizewinner piece for summer 2013
Slightly OT but well worth a readhttp://www.scottishreview.net/IanJack87b.shtml
“Rothesay could never be taken seriously as the Madeira of the North, despite its cabbage palms. The Sandwich of the North, the Caledonian Southwold, the Clyde’s Whitstable: these are more realisable propositions. It’s lovelier than any of them. What it needs is the loving care and attention – and of course the money – of visitors from an imaginative middle class.”
- Home Secretary’s whole life sentences for police killers pressures Scottish Government to respond
“…and not batting it about to score runs in the usual cricket game of the Holyrood chamber.”The First Minister doesn’t throw the ball in the first place.
- Council latest: meaning well is not enough
An experiment is an orderly procedure carried out with the goal of verifying, falsifying, or establishing the validity of a hypothesis.Surely what A&B needs at the moment is this process & I would certainly back Dougie Philand in his efforts in this area.
“There is much to commend in this notion but we have seen nothing to suggest that it is particularly advanced in its thinking and it has certainly not been tested in robust open discussion.”
Just because you have not been privy to these discussions does NOT mean that they haven’t happened.
- 2013 Inveraray Bluebell Festival gets going
“This is a particularly poignant year for the Argylls, the Argyll and Sugtherland Highlanders, as thar proud regiment, now down to battalion strength, has been chosen for disbanding as part of the controversial cuts in defence spending and the consequent reroganisation of our armed forces.”We’ll have them back after 2014….
(24 degrees) in Puerto Pollensa at the moment
- Runaway rail track maintenance unit at Glasow Queen Street injures staff member
The vehicle now arriving at Platform 5……….
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After this remarkable fiasco will Councillor Roddy McCuish do the decent thing and make a substantial donation to Martha’s charity on behalf of A&B Council as well as issuing an unconditional apology to this poor young student.
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A donation from the senior officers of the Council would be far more appropriate!
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Its nice that the council are really concentrating on the important problems in Argyll.Never mind SPYGATE and Chord lets just a have a big meeting about School dinners.
Anyone got any news about officers retiring and being employed again with the council as consultants just a wee story I got today.Will check up to see if Rhodie has any crack about it.
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Yet another near wholly embarassing (yet neither much entertaining or particularly humorous) carry on from out of this astonishingly backward local authority. This incident being ingloriously graced with master classes in fumbling incompetence in the interpretation of facts, inappropriate knee-jerk reactions, & then by embarrassing U-turns accompanied by cliche-ridden, rushed out howls of self-justification from the centre, ‘it wisnae me’ etc etc etc (when justly spotted). All comprehensively demonstrating systemic institutional self-regard, woeful symptoms of myopic arrogance, poor organisational coordination, good old-fashioned pomposity, poor service values in general – & the now customary Stalinist methods that have so often disgraced & discredited this thorough shambles of a local authority.
You really couldn’t invent the catalogue of crass stupidities & self-inflicted wounds that, not infrequently, emanate from the offices of this local council. Barely fit for purpose as an organisation, is the continuing impression that’s created…certainly an impression that’s now well evidenced.
‘Happy to hear that this recent incident of sheer disregard & institutional disdain for the aspirations & views of members of the local constituency (i.e. the actual people of the area) has come to detailed national attention via “The Guardian” newspaper’s website. ‘Delighted also to learn that the story has gone viral across the internet. Welcome to the 21st Century, Argyll & Bute Council – it’s perhaps time to wake up to modern ways of doing things now. Could try very much harder – probably would be a good idea to, not least so as to try to avoid becoming a UK-wide laughing stock, in addition to being increasingly deplored across the real world of 21st century Argyll & Bute.
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Will the person or persons responsible for placing the gagging order on this young lady please put his or her hands up, and then resign from AB. This is a disgraceful episode in what was supposed to be a new open council, shades of the old Mc Intyre regime. We need a full enquiry into this matter, and a review of all funding for childrens meals at school. Someone is making money , and children are not getting value for money.
Lets clear this up and soon before there is a massive public backlash, and heads will roll.
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Time for the person or persons reponsible for making a wrong decision to learn from it. I think calling for resignations is as knee jerk a reaction as the decision to pervent Martha from doing her good work. These times of Tory/Lib Dem imposed austerity are hard enough without individuals giving up salaries simply for making what was in my opinion a bad call.
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I know it’s non-PC and in very bad taste, but I can’t get out of my head the image of the perpetrator of the ban trussed up in a large cooking pot suspended over a brisk fire somewhere in the jungle with a lot of very happy kids dancing around it. Sorry.
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How many mistakes do our well-paid council employees have to make before they are asked to resign. There is a well known say “three strikes and you are out”. Clelland Sneddon and Sally Loudon have certainly made more than three glaring mistakes and it is time for them to be given their P45′s with NO payoff.
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Are you all saying that none of the elected members were involved in this fiasco?
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Lowry: it seems so.
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