SNP Argyll meltdown: the band plays on
[Updated below 22.15] It appears that Councillor Isobel Strong, who is recovering from major surgery, did not sign to join Argyll and Bute for Change, the latest of the two new umbrella groups formed...
View ArticleArgyll and Bute Council: now and next
SNP Councillor Roddy McCuish from Oban is Council Leader.The following councillors continue today, 29th May, to hold Lead and Depute Lead responsibilities, under constitutional arrangements which...
View ArticleCuriously similar situation with SNP group in Aberdeenshire Council
Argyll and Bute has been witnessing, since the local authority elections of May 2012, the SNP hierarchy much exercised to get its local group of councillors, the largest in the council, out of power...
View ArticleRobust meeting of SNP Group sees growing resistance to ‘Edinburgh’ influence
A meeting of the SNP Group of Councillors in Inveraray last night is being described as ‘robust’.The key issue is that the SNP’s NEC has flatly ordered the group not to collaborate in any way with...
View ArticleCouncil Meeting: resounding endorsement of Council Leader as inclusive way...
[Updated below 22.30] The full meeting of Argyll Bute Council this morning, 27th June, spent 90 minutes debating the relative merits of a motion from the Argyll and Bute for Change group and an...
View ArticleCouncil latest: MORE SNP sabotage from within
The SNP group is supposed to be being led by novice councillor Sandy Taylor – who seems to have mislaid his GPS.Taylor, a rookie helmsman, with the experienced sail trimmer, councillor John Semple and...
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LochWatch Loch Awe: legacy of the lost
Today, at Cruachan Power Station Visitor Centre on Loch Awe, the LochWatch committee unveiled the patrol boat which will be launched for next season on this huge, beautiful and dangerously moody...
View ArticleWas there choreography between CEO and Audit Scotland on Castle Toward
Why did Audit Scotland dig itself into such a hole in declining to investigate the Castle Toward affair as thoroughly as Argyll and Bute Council had itself asked them to do?Why did the council want to...
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