Argyll and Bute Independent Councillors congratulate all MSPs elected to...
The Argyll & Bute Independent Councillors Group (not the Alliance of Independent Councillors, which leads the current and controversial ruling coalition at the council -but a new group led by...
View ArticleArgyll & Bute Independent Councillors Group want to know who knew what on...
Speaking on the news that Argyll and Bute Council appears to have been conducting covert surveillance on groups and individuals who disagree with the Council, Councillor George Freeman, Leader of...
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Spygate – the return of The Herald: Smith says it was like ‘a holiday account...
(Updated 17th February) Today’s edition of The Herald (11th February) sees reporter Stephen Naysmith with a follow-up story of his revelation yesterday that Argyll and Bute Council’s Communications...
View ArticleInvitation to opposition group leaders to evaluate Argyll and Bute budget
(Updated below 17th February) For Argyll has invited the leaders of each of the opposition groups of councillors and Councillor James Robb, the sole non-aligned councillor, to evaluate the budget for...
View Article2012-2015 budget: Argyll and Bute Independent Councillors evaluation
Along with other opposition group leaders, I met with Councillor Dick Walsh and Councillor Ellen Morton on the Monday before the Council budget meeting to discuss their budget proposals. When they...
View ArticleOpposition evaluations of three year council budget
With the May local authority elections on the near horizon, this was always going to be a goodie-bag budget as the troubled administration of Argyll and Bute Council uses the tools it controls in the...
View ArticleArgyll and Bute Council: Where are we now?
Let’s start with the certainties. There are some.There are now three groups of councillors at Kilmory, only one of which, the SNP group – the smallest, with a cohort of 8 – is party-based.The other two...
View ArticleSNP Group Leader wanted to take them straight into opposition
It transpires that Derek Mackay, Minister for Local Government in the SNP Scottish Government advised that the SNP group of councillors – elected to lead in the political management of Argyll and Bute...
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