Comment posted Tarbet and Luss en fete as Olympic Flame brushes Argyll by Burns Ma Boy.
I think that Graeme should have been at Tarbet where some idiots who were waving saltires let Scotland down by the signs they were making to tourists in coaches from south of the border. Is it any wonder that we are called anti English and ashamed to be Scottish.
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Duncan, “skills”. Don’t make me laugh. Some folk appear to have missed the point that the remaining SNP councillors will be in power in the new administration. SNP, including Mike Russell, and p*** ups in breweries springs to mind. - White smoke rises from Councillor Duncan MacIntyre’s chimney as two-man College of Cardinals settle a deal
Duncan, “wise”. Don’t make me laugh. He certainly does not have leadership qualities and at his age, he is past it. The opposition will make mince meat out of him. - White smoke rises from Councillor Duncan MacIntyre’s chimney as two-man College of Cardinals settle a deal
kgv, you obviously know what Duncan MacIntyre is like. - White smoke rises from Councillor Duncan MacIntyre’s chimney as two-man College of Cardinals settle a deal
Phill, you obviously have never seen Duncan MacIntyre in action at a Council meeting. He is certainly looking very old and is not even the best of a bad bunch in the new Argyll and Bute for Change Group. Only Dick Walsh has the quality in that group to lead the Council. I am told that Duncan cannot get to a meeting on time. If you really want to know what he is like, I have been told that you should ask one of the female councillors how he treats them. - Robust meeting of SNP Group sees growing resistance to ‘Edinburgh’ influence
Who can explain the crazy thinking of the SNP bosses in Edinburgh who say that the Argyll & Bute SNP councillors cannot work with the Conservative or Lib Dem councillors who are part of the new Argyll, Lomond and the Islands group in the Council, yet they allow Gordon Blair from Dunoon and Robert MacIntyre and Isobel Strong from Bute to work with the Argyll and Bute for Change Group that also has Conservative membership?Donald Kelly, who was elected as a Conservative councillor and who is still a member of the Conservative Party is a member of the Argyll and Bute For Change Group. Even as a member of the Argyll First group, he was still listed as a Conservative councillor.
Why has the SNP bosses in Edinburgh got one rule for those SNP councillors from Bute and Cowal and a different rule for SNP councillors from all other parts of Argyll & Bute? Could it be that the three Bute and Cowal SNP councillors who are working with the Argyll and Bute for Change conservative councillor are from Michael Russell’s neck of the woods in Bute and Cowal and he can tell them what to do? Russell is obviously happy for his local SNP councillors who he controls to work with Tories but not for others to do that.
It has been suggested that Michael Russell was not consulted by the NEC in Edinburgh before they took the decision that SNP councillors could not work with those Conservative, Lib Dem and Independent councillors in the new Argyll, Lomond and the Islands Group. TOSH. They must think that folk from Argyll and Bute came up the Clyde in a banana boat. At least we now know what the SNP in Edinburgh think of the folk in Argyll and Bute.
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Just like the Diamond Jubilee , bringing people together in happiness and unity ……
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Spot on, during the Jubilee the Republicans joined hand in hand with in happiness & unity. Don’t know where you were in this country (Scotland) but here in Dunoon you were very lucky or unlucky depending on your viewpoint if you clocked a small red white and blue streamer fluttering from someone’s door handle or the odd elipse of bunting. Apologies if you are posting this from England or Northern Ireland as they appear to favour this abhorent circus and obviously brought people together in happiness and unity.
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‘Abhorrent’? surely, whatever the rights and wrongs of the olympic bandwagon, this smells of intolerance.
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Intolerence? Not at all, simply a point of view shared, I’m sure, by many many more in Scotland. The Olympic flame, yes probably bring sections of communities together, sport tends to do this. When the comparison to the Golden Jubilee was made by Islay for ever I am sure I was not alone in noticing the lack of enthusiasm north of the border, wonder why?
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A little typo in the heading I think. Tarbet, one “R”.
(You got it correct in the main body of the text).
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I have a long professional history of being seduced by the apparent confidence of titles and not proofing them.
Many thanks for this prompt – and the location for the visit of the flame this morning is now correct.
Lynda
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Having been at Luss this morning and taking a few soundings among the locals {like myself},We compared the crowd to-day to a day at Luss Games. The committee members of Luss Games have estimated the crowd at 3000. They were four and five deep all the way from the hotel to the pier with the first of them arriving at 8 am
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Fabulous.
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I should have said The committee members past and present who were near to us estimated the crowd at 3000
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The only blot on the event was the racial abuse of a local for holding a saltire by a bombastic guest from south of the Border who currently lives in Helensburgh
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We understand that the organisation itself was selling both Saltires and Union Flags to bystanders (£2 a pop) at Luss. (A post-Hampden revision, perhaps?)
At Tarbet the guy with the bag of merchandise, seemed only to have Union Flags and whistles to sell.
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Very well done Myles. You ran like a born athlete and what terrific support from Mid Argyll with the choir, pipes and band. Stephen
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I think that Graeme should have been at Tarbet where some idiots who were waving saltires let Scotland down by the signs they were making to tourists in coaches from south of the border. Is it any wonder that we are called anti English and ashamed to be Scottish.
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Regrettably we do have a mindless anti-English element who give the rest of us here in Scotland a bad name. Thankfully they are well and trully in the minority and hopefully will remain so. It’s all very well having a bit of sporting rivalry and friendly banter however, when it descends into nasty insults or verbal abuse simply because of your country of birth then this is very disappointing. This said, waving the National flag of your country be it England, Scotland, Wales or N.Ireland I don’t think should ever be deemed inapropriate or merit disdain.
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You are quite right to condemn the behaviour of these small minded bigots, and I join you in that. I’m neither anti English nor ashamed to be Scottish and the actions of people like this won’t make me so.
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If we don’t expose racial abuse now then the Independence referendum could become very nasty
It’s important that all examples are exposed whether it’s by young beds or middle class or aged ones
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