Councillor Blair pulls back from the brink
At yesterday’s meeting of the SNP group ‘leading’ the administration of Argyll and Bute Council, Councillor Gordon Blair chose not to resign from the party.In doing so, he pulled the group back from...
View ArticleStruan Lodge on agenda for today’s council meeting
Council Leader, James Robb, does not run in the face of the sort of public meeting only Dunoon can deliver - as others have previously been seen to do. Councillor Robb faced the experience last Friday...
View ArticleMSP v Council Leader now ‘last man standing’ face-off with SNP and Argyll the...
The administration at Argyll and Bute Council is currently caught in a ‘last man standing’ face-off between local MSP, Michael Russell and the Council Leader he did not want, Councillor James...
View ArticleStruan Lodge closure proposal and costs confusion – have we not seen this...
So much about the mechanistic philosophy of the proposal to close Struan Lodge is familiar. So is the costing defended by a series of different stories, often contradictory:It was gross costing.No...
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The Campbeltown Visit in photographs
Deputy First Minister, Nicola Sturgeon, as reported earlier, flew in to Campbeltown on Monday 15th April, to cut the ribbon on the New Quay.While she as there she announced the imminent arrival of a...
View ArticleRussell now calling for second Council Leader’s head
Earlier today, local SNP MSP, Michael Russell paid a visit to Argyll and Bute Council’s HQ at Kilmory in Lochgilphead for a show down with Councillor James Robb, Leader – the second Leader in under a...
View ArticleSNP Councillor resigns from council group and from the party
In the light of the situation within the SNP group at Argyll and Bute Council that we have just described, a very able new SNP councillor for Oban, South and the Isles, Fred Hall, has tonight resigned...
View ArticleVote of confidence for Thursday council meeting
Following last night’s revelations here [below], Cowal Councillor Gordon Blair is said to be acting as the agent of local MSP, Michael Russell who, if this shambles had anything remotely strategic...
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Bonfire of insanities at Argyll and Bute Council: but where now?
By the end of Thurday’s meeting of Argyll and Bute Council, we had seen an orchestrated internal conflict in the SNP administration group come to a head following sudden, contradictory and politically...
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 ArticleArgyll and Bute Council: the horsetrading begins
There is a meeting being arranged for tomorrow between a curious collection of councillors:The SNP’s Sandy Taylor is rumoured to be the likely next party leader if Roddy McCuish decides to step down in...
View ArticleSNP departures from administration – was money a factor?
We have been sent – anonymously – extracts from two emails from Council Leader James Robb, prefaced by an explanatory paragraph, which relates to the first extract.They make interesting reading,...
View ArticleJames Robb, as the cordite clears
In the midst of the debris of the ill-fated first SNP led administration at Argyll and Bute Council, James Robb, the most recent of its two internally downed leaders, is still standing.He has tried to...
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...
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Minutes of today’s meeting of ‘Concerned Councillors’ Group
At Kilmory today, a group of ‘concerned councillors’ met under the chairmanship of Councllor Duncan MacIntyre of the Alliance of Independent Councillors.We have been told – as yet unconfirmed - that...
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 ArticleFirst Minister’s call for ‘grown up politics’ countered by order – from the top
On Radio Clyde News at 11.00am yesterday morning, 8th June, First Minister Alex Salmond said that ‘grown up politics is about working with opponents’.Correct as this is, it indicates that the First...
View ArticleWhite smoke rises from Councillor Duncan MacIntyre’s chimney as two-man...
Just when you thought there were no tricks left to play, politics, as it is done in Argyll and Bute, has spewed up two stunning twists.The first twistOban – and beyond – has been transfixed by the...
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...
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