Provost must go: Dumbo and Rambo statement shows out of control political...
Procedural propriety at Argyll and Bute Council appears simply to have been abandoned.Evidence of this comes from the circumstances in which the Council received the statement we published on Thursday...
View ArticleAll the ‘A’s: The A Team and the announcements at the SNP conference
There were a lot of things that were interesting about the SNP’s annual party conference in Perth over the past few days.The party’s A Team for this last set piece before the September 2014...
View ArticleCouncil meeting: is this what Audit Scotland had in mind?
Instead of being an occasion for girding the loins and cleaning the stable, it felt like the last day of term this morning at Argyll and Bute Council – or a jolly in a windowless bunker with all...
View ArticleLamont looking for an acceptable solution to Labour’s Falkirk crisis
More revelations have emerged about the Unite trade union’s attempt to manipulate the selection of the candidate to represent the Labour party in the Falkirk constituency at the 2015 General...
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Helensburgh group calls for Argyll and Bute Council to take action against...
Helensburgh Community Woodlands Group [HCWG] has spent years fighting against the environmental depredations of a local developer, Osborne Interiors – owned by Margery Osborne and Thomas Paterson.This...
View ArticleDr Mason writes to Controller of Audit on Council CEO’s communications on...
Actual Reality Trustee, Dr Christopher Mason has today written to Fraser McKinlay, Controller of Audit at Audit Scotland, raising issues around Argyll and Bute Council CEO, Sally Loudon’s recent...
View ArticleRumours of serious tensions in new council administration
[This article was due to be published visibly yesterday, 18th December, as shown. It was, however, disrupted by a power cut in the ongoing storms, lost its formatting and although technically...
View ArticleArgyll SNP loses another long time keystone member
The extent of the asset loss to the SNP resulting from the mindless external machinations that destroyed the credibililty of the party in local government in Argyll and Bute continues.The Oban branch...
View ArticleFOI documents on Castle Toward support Actual Reality’s allegations against...
Documents received by For Argyll from Argyll and Bute Council on 23rd December 2013 under Freedom of Information legislation and relating to Castle Toward and Actual Reality Learning and Leadership...
View ArticleYes camaign needs to rein back First Minister as he cuts tether to reason in...
Economists and financial sector specialists have underlined what every downhome body knows – that if you default on due debt, your credit line dies with that abandoned debt.Scotland’s First Minster,...
View ArticleBrown and MacAskill: ministerial snakes and ladders
They say a week in politics is a long time – but one day – yesterday – was time enough for one minister to take a slide down a snake of his own contriving; and for another to stand a couple more rungs...
View ArticleConcerns about operational reliability of CMAL vessels
[Updated below 21.45] There are now widespread concerns about the impact on the CalMac schedules of the vessels they lease from CMAL – the Scottish Government owned asset holding company.For the last...
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Tony Benn – always a credible man
‘Credibility is saying what you mean, meaning what you say and doing it as soon as you get the chance.’This was one of the many wisdoms of the first man, Anthony Wedgwood Benn, to renounce an inherited...
View ArticleNo criminality in the McAlpine story – now let it be
Today’s press, , 27th March, are all over the story that the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body [SPCB] has cleared First Minister, Alex Salmond’s key aide, former journo now MSP, Joan McAlpine, of...
View ArticleSNP choose one of the local party’s wrecker balls as Oban South and the Isles...
You can’t say that the local SNP constituency group are inconsistent. They do keep on digging.They have shown a demonstrably steady will to destroy the party’s credibility in Argyll and Bute –...
View ArticleChilcot must remember that his report on the Iraq war was commissioned in the...
The camp of discredited former Prime Minister, Tony Blair, is continuing to obstruct publication of the report of the Public Inquiry led by Sir John Chilcot into Britain’s involvement in Iraq between...
View ArticleTransport Minister politely puts ill-briefed MSP back in his box – and dances...
As For Argyll reported recently, Labour Highlands and Islands MSP, David Stewart. offered his credibility as hostage in submitting a fleet of parliamentary questions to the Scottish Government which...
View ArticleWhere now for Dunoon’s town centre ferry service?
There is yet further new information to be considered now on this issue.The past week’s release by the Scottish Government, of the results of its one-to-one engagement with six potential operators of...
View ArticleScottish Affairs Committee reports credibility as key issue in opposition to...
The Scottish Affairs Committee of the House of Commons has made clear the overall conclusion to its evidence-taking on the impact of a possible currency union between the United Kingdom and a...
View ArticleThe people and the election: influences the Scottish Affairs Committee ignored
In its recently published report on evidence submitted during its enquiries – The Referendum on Separation for Scotland: no doubt – no currency union – the Scottish Affairs Committee of the House of...
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