Hi everyone, Final photo – I know – at least the torture is over. Thanks for all your donations. We topped £4000. You can still donate I if you haven’t already – go to the link below – click on my profile. In any case, it has been very worthwhile – apart from the money raised we have raised awareness which is at least as important. Thanks again, William Wilkie, Optician. https://moteam.co/the-good-coffee-cartel?mc=1
When the SNP’s Scrooge Council leader Jonathan McColl decided that they couldn’t afford to give Renton a Christmas tree last year while he and his colleagues were squandering a £5 million overspend on a heating scheme for Clydebank and throwing good money after bad at misguided grass cutting schemes and other madness, Craigandro football club stepped into the breech. The village club and contractor CPR did the necessary again this week and made a great job of putting this year’s tree up. Cllr McColl may have a beard but that’s the only thing he shares with Santa Claus. Bill Heaney
This Strategy and Action Plan is an exciting opportunity for West Dunbartonshire’s communities and citizens, the Council and Community Planning partners to work together in a new way to transform West Dunbartonshire’s neighbourhoods – by empowering communities.
The payback figure was released following a Freedom of Information request. Glasgow Lord Provost Eva Bolander resigns after expenses row
Lord provost claimed 23 pairs of shoes on expenses. An agreement with the council means she will not have to publish an itemised list of what the repayments are for. When details of her expense claims first emerged, Ms Bolander committed to repay some of the money. She eventually resigned in October, saying that while her spending was “within the rules”, she “apologised unreservedly”.
The Scottish National Party (SNP) and campaigners agree with ONR and are calling on the MoD to release the reports, which have previously revealed “regulatory risks” 86 times at Clyde nuclear bases and elsewhere over ten years. The MoD insists, however, that its nuclear programme is “fully accountable”.
I was taken to task over my last post for not being sufficiently critical of the SNP. The reader pointed to specific policy shortcomings in investment and taxation, health and education—all of which, he added, are given a free pass because of the ‘indolence of journalists and incompetence of opposition parties’. It’s hard to argue with that. The SNP’s record over twelve years in government does not lack poor-decision making, missed opportunities, wasted spending and poverty of vision. It would be extraordinary if it did. Running a country in the 21st century is a massively complicated business. The absence of forensic holding-to-account is also a problem, one that in part reflects the nature of enquiry in this high speed, digital, fake news age. Criticism is essential, and it carries most weight when offered by someone occupying, as my reader did, ‘a broadly supportive position’.
