Scottish Ministers try to calm the natives in ritual spanking of Argyll Ferries
Amidst continuing and vocal concerns amongst users of the new passenger ferry service between Gourock and Dunoon, Scottish Ministers yesterday (30 November 2011) met with the Chair and Chief Executive...
View ArticleGourock-Dunoon ferry: the authoritative position
Last week Cabinet Secretary Alex Neil chaired a meeting with interested parties on the Argyll Ferries passenger service between Gourock and Dunoon.An unconfirmed and unofficial account of this meeting...
View ArticleOfficial: David MacBrayne Group’s CEO ‘has not resigned’?
Towards the end of last week For Argyll made several attempts to talk to Archie Robertson, Group Chief Executive for David MacBrayne Limited, or DML.DML is the parent company for subsidiaries CalMac...
View ArticleLabour calls for answers from Government on CalMac and future of Clyde and...
Scottish Labour has called for an urgent ministerial statement this week on recent developments within ‘Caledonian MacBrayne’ and its associated companies.This follows three matters which the Labour...
View ArticleScottish Government reshuffle: the media, the strategy, the challenges, the...
The first thing to be noted about yesterday’s modest reshuffle of his ministerial team by Scotland’s First Minister, Alex Salmond, is the sheer selective parochialism of its reporting by BBC...
View ArticleRussell hissy-fit over Stow College director rumbles on
(Updated) On Saturday 10th November The Herald captured Argyll and Bute’s MSP, Education Secretary, Michael Russell, in a fit of the screaming ab dabs, reporting that he was imperiously demanding – in...
View ArticleRussell back in the bathtub, now trying to sink Keith Brown’s boat
In his desperate struggle to recover and defend a reputation now driven to a low discount by an unable and controversial performance at Education and in the necessary decorum and fair treatment of...
View ArticleScottish Labour MSP challenges Transport Scotland and Argyll and Bute’s MSP...
In a challenge not only to Transport Scotland but to Argyll and Bute’s MSP, Scottish Labour’s Richard Baker, MSP for North East Scotland, has written to the Scottish Public Services Ombudsman asking...
View ArticleFor Argyll’s FOI shows Transport Minister misled Scottish Parliament on...
For Argyll can show, on documented evidence, that Transport Minister, Keith Brown, misled the Scottish Parliament in answers he gave on 5th September 2012 to questions on the award of the Northern...
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Deputy First Minister plays a welcome straight bat over Gourock Dunoon ferry...
Dunoon and the Gourock Dunoon Ferry Action Group are in something of an upset since the Chair of the group, Susanna Rice, received a letter from Deputy First Minister, Nicola Sturgeon.When Ms Sturgeon...
View ArticleUists get involved in the issue of the Campbeltown to Ardrossan ferry
An unlikely participant has emerged in the imbroglio around Argyll and Bute MSP, Michael Russell’s unfortunate suggestion that the marketing slogan for the new CalMac ferry from Campbeltown to...
View ArticleIndy: which masters of the sooniverse?
We have a United Kingdom with:an operational principle of government that is neither designed for nor fit for what it needs to do in today’s world;Northern Ireland currently in retrogressive mode;Wales...
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