Fall out from the voting at yesterday’s council meeting
Today, 15th February, has been punctuated by a series of angry responses from Cowal that two of its administration councillors, Michael Breslin and Gordon Blair, both SNP representatives, registered a...
View ArticleCouncil minutes of Struan Lodge motion at 21 March meeting raise the most...
[Updated below 15.00 5th April] The minutes of the meeting of Argyll and Bute Council;s meeting on 21st March were finally published this morning, 4th April.The ‘Struan Lodge motion’Item 1 on the...
View ArticleThe first battle at Thursday’s council meeting – and predictions
The first – and possibly the decisive battle – at Thursday’s meeting of Argyll and Bute Council will be on an apparently minor procedural point: who will take the chair for the session.The Provost is...
View ArticleEmail from SNP Constituency Association Convenor to SNP councillors
This email has just been sent by Robert Allan, Convenor of the SNP’s Argyll and Bute Constituency Association to all SNP councillors in the current coalition administration at Argyll and Bute...
View ArticleThree administration members vote against agreed budgetary position on Struan...
[Updated below 11.30 26th April] Argyll and Bute Council has reopened the Struan Lodge issue at its meeting today, in an emergency motion tabled by Councillor Michael Breslin and seconded by Councillor...
View ArticleBehind the lines: SNP Constituency Association Convenor resigns, Russell...
What is happening behind the lines in the embattled SNP group at Argyll and Bute Council seems to be akin to the regeneration in nature that follows a bush fire.The SNP’s Constituency Association...
View ArticleSNP meeting on Monday may be testing time for mega-coalition proposal
The agreement made between former Council Leader, Dick Walsh and the SNPs ‘negotiating team’ of former local party group leader, Robert E MacIntyre from Bute and novice councillors Louise Glen-Lee and...
View ArticleSNP tightens party grip on local councillors in further chaos
A range of credible sources have it that:SNP party group leader, Councillor Roddy McCuish intends to stand down as party group leader today and will resign from the SNP. This would be a typically...
View ArticleNew SNP group leader unable to keep the sheep in the pen
Now on its third leader in a year, the SNP group of councillors’ latest incumbent with the velcro-backed stripe on his sleeve, rookie Councillor Sandy Taylor, has just seen two sheep leave the...
View ArticleSNP 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 ArticleInvitation only meeting for Argyll and Bute for – not much Change
Sadly, Council Leader McCuish’s will and ability to grasp the need to reassure the Argyll electorate by adopting a collegiate approach to local government responsibilities, is not yet widely...
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Discretionary hearing on Ardfern housing application: insights and revelations
Today , 17th June, saw the hearing in Craignish Village Hall, of the application by the General Trustees of the Church of Scotland for a development project on its land at The Glebe, west of Craignish...
View ArticleThe ‘killer’ motion for next week’s council meeting
On the agenda for next week’s council meeting on 27th June is the following motion:31. NOTICE OF MOTION UNDER STANDING ORDER 13That the Council confirms the Argyll and Bute for Change group as the new...
View ArticleEver Increasing Circles indeed – and a comedy turn for Monday
For Argyll has recently published an article on Ever Increasing Circles – an approach to improving council performance, emerging from the Argyll and Bute for Change group.From its philosophical nature,...
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 ArticleArgyll and Bute Council: where are we now?
The SNP proposal which was accepted on Thursday 27th June in preference to proposals in the motion from Argyll and Bute for Change, creates a position where:the council has no legal impediment to...
View ArticleInteresting up to date political composition of Argyll and Bute Council
Executive Director, Douglas Hendry, has prepared an up to date list of the political composition of Argyll and Bute Council.It shows the following picture:ARGYLL AND BUTE FOR CHANGE ALLIANCE (16)whose...
View ArticleWe’ve had the prenup, now meet the matchmaker
The draft agreement to frame the proposed council coalition between the Argyll and Bute for Change Alliance and the SNP Group is to go to a vote at the SNP Group meeting tomorrow, Monday 23rd...
View ArticleMajor SNP defections and a powerful new consensus in the council
Former Council Leader Roddy McCuish and Councillor Mary Jean Devon from Mull have left the SNP.They will sit as independent councillors with the Argyll Lomond and the Isles Group – which will now be...
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Revelations galore at Cowal pro-union launch
The Better Together pro-union campaign had its launch event for Cowal last night, 7th October, at Dunoon Grammar School – with a platform party sandwiched by the school’s output.David Barton, at one...
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