Comment posted Kit, Caboodle, and a hard-fought match in Campbeltown by David Graham.
Congratulation to Alex and Robin for their efforts in pulling this exhibition together.
Congrats to the many others who have contributed.
Alex is a legend in Campbeltown Football history not withstanding the many other local organisations Alex is quietly involved with.
Alex,your picture tells a story of where your future community contribution may lie.
Hopefully a word or two with George will assist you along the way.
Look forward to seeing the exhibition towards the end of August……You are an honourable man.
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Congratulations and Best Wishes to Alex McKinven and the exhibition .
How ridiculous to see a Bute Councillor wearing the Provost’s chain of the Royal Burgh of Campbeltown .
Surely it is time we saw devolution in local government , where CAMPBELTOWN people controlled affairs in the town ?
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I will pass on the political aspects of Islay for Ever’s comment, but comment myself on matters of fact.
Fifty years ago, Scottish local government looked very different to now. Alongside the Counties and Cities, there were many Burghs that had been independent since their foundation. In Argyll, this included places likes Campbeltown, Rothesay and Inveraray, each of which had its Provost and thus a chain of office.
The politics of a changing world determined that boundaries and responsibilities should be redrawn, first in 1972 and then again in 1996. Many of the new Councils re-established the idea of a Provost as civic head, but generally acquired a new chain of office for them to wear and consigned the old ones to bank vaults or museums.
Argyll & Bute, however, took a different approach. Overtly recognising the identity of the old Burghs, the old chains remain in active use with the Provost using whichever is appropriate to the area they are visiting. Thus, for an engagement at Campbeltown Museum it is the Campbeltown chain, whilst when she visits us at Auchindrain it will be the Inveraray chain she wears. And so on. This has always seemed to me to be singularly appropriate, and a very nice way of acknowledging historic local identities in the modern world.
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What upsets iof is, of course, that the “Bute Councillor” is the SNP Provost of Argyll & Bute Council.
When representing the Council on official duties she will normally wear as did her predecessor , as a courtesy, and as explained by Bob Clark above , the local burgh Chain of Office; a pragmatic, economical and practical aknowledgement of past history.
We can safely be assured from past utterances that iof is a strong opponent of Scottish devolution and yet appears to advocate yet another tier of local government!
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I’m not the least bit concerned with the Bute Councillor’s political colours ,but I do want to see powers devolved to Campbeltown and that will not result in “yet another tier of local government”.
The unnecessary tier of government I want rid of is the one which sits at Holyrood.
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Ife: maybe you’re too young to remember the previous ‘tier of government’ in Edinburgh – the Scottish Office, presided over by a jack-of-all-trades minister who – while always (I assume) a Scot – had too much of the aura of a colonial ruler.
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Congratulation to Alex and Robin for their efforts in pulling this exhibition together.
Congrats to the many others who have contributed.
Alex is a legend in Campbeltown Football history not withstanding the many other local organisations Alex is quietly involved with.
Alex,your picture tells a story of where your future community contribution may lie.
Hopefully a word or two with George will assist you along the way.
Look forward to seeing the exhibition towards the end of August……You are an honourable man.
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Providing Provost Isobel Strong is not claiming an extra Provost’s allowance for wearing the Campbeltown Burgh Provost’s chain then I see no problem.
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There is no problem.
As for superfluous layers of government may I suggest that we take the Westminster by-pass?
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Thanks to everyone who contributed artefacts and helped set up the exhibition, and to the staff of the Burnet Building who gave up their free time to make the display available to the general public on a couple of Saturday dates. The page is about football, and the important part it played in the lives of our townsfolk. There are many other avenues available for making political expression, a very important part of our democratic process, as you will appreciate, this was never intended to be one of them.
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