Argyll & Bute Council sees third consecutive unanimous acceptance of its...
Yes, Argyll and Bute Council’s unanimously approved budget has frozen Council Tax for the second year running. But we knew it would. Not to do so would have been financial madness, throwing away the...
View ArticleWhy has Alan Reid not signed the Early Day Motion against privatisation of...
Argyll’s representative at Westminster, Alan Reid MP, has spoken widely across Argyll about the need to save the Post Office from the part-privatisation the UK Government proposes – and about saving...
View ArticleMcGrigor tables Parliamentary Motion on Mid Argyll Swimming Pool
(Updated) Jamie McGrigor, Highlands & Islands MSP this morning (11th November) tabled the following Parliamentary Motion on the Mid Argyll Swimming Pool in Lochgilphead. Apart from the subject...
View ArticleGARL and Glasgow North East
There are indeed political lessons to be learned from the recent result of the Glasgow North East by-election for the constituency’s Westminster seat. These lessons are to be digested by politicians,...
View ArticleMore support at Holyrood for Mid Argyll Pool
Update 17th November: The SNP’s Highlands Islands MSP, Dave Thompson, who had already signed Jamie McGrigor’s Pariamentary Motion, in adding his support to the motion, has issued a statement saying:...
View ArticleMcGrigor follows up on North Argyll business signage row
Jamie McGrigor is the political equivalent of a truffle hound. He has an unerring nose for issues that really matter to people – and he’s in there, tirelessly digging them out, giving them the oxygen...
View ArticleScottish Parliament passes Home Owner and Debtor Protection Bill
The issue of home repossessions is complex and vexed. In the last week week there was a bit of a media storm when the UK Housing Minister, John Healey, told Victoria Derbyshire on Radio Five Live that...
View ArticleArgyll First: new political group within Argyll and Bute Council
A very interesting cross-party political grouping has just been formed within Argyll and Bute Council – the Argyll First group. Its name says what it is about and what the priorities of its members are...
View ArticleThird member of Argyll First poliltical group named
The third member of Argyll First, the newly formed cross-party political group within Argyll and Bute Council has now formalised his relationship with the group and abandoned his anonymity. He joins...
View ArticleCouncillors question value of COSLA membership
A spectrum of elected members, from across parties and groups, have submitted a motion for tomorrow’s full meeting of Argyll and Bute Council Council.Provost William Petrie will be absent for the...
View ArticleMike Mackenzie MSP starts with cross party support for Fair Trade motion
In an interesting early indication of his stance at Holyrood, new Highlands and Islands MSP, the SNP’s Mike Mackenzie has given his support to a motion from Labour MSP and former minister, Sarah...
View ArticleMid Argyll Chamber of Commerce meeting on A83
Over 20 businesses attended this meeting yesterday morning (2nd March 2012), from tourism businesses, to haulage, to transport.Alan Reid MP, Mike Mackenzie MSP and half a dozen councillors were there,...
View ArticleArgyll and Bute MP has not signed Commons Early Day Motion to protect rural...
For a Highlands and Islands politician who has made much over the years of his support for rural post offices, Argyll and Bute’s MP, Liberal Democrat Alan Reid is oddly missing as a signatory to a...
View ArticleMcGrigor repeats call for farmers and crofters to contribute to consultation...
Highlands & Islands Conservative MSP, Jamie McGrigor, has repeated his call for farmers and crofters in his region to take part in the Scottish Government’s current consultations on new Common...
View ArticleMajority of Justice Committee members do not support ditching corroborative...
In a reassuring move resisting damaging populist change to the security of the Scottish judicial system, a majority of the members of the Scottish Parliament’s Justice Committee do not support the...
View ArticleMcMillan adds marine tourism perspective to need for success of Clyde 2020...
Stuart McMillan MSP SNP and Convenor of the Scottish Parliament Cross Party Group on Recreational Boating and Marine Tourism has added his support to bringing the Clyde up to Good Environmental Status...
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