The Kintyre Forum

Sadly, we all too often expect politicians to dissemble and spin like a top, but the recent Lib Dem election leaflet takes the biscuit. Desperate to deflect the opprobrium heaped upon Councillor Hay & her Liberal colleagues by parents outraged by the threat to shut local primary schools, the Libs are attempting to blame SNP councillors.
Argyll News tells it straight here:
http://forargyll.com/2011/02/half-truth ... candidate/

The behaviour of the Lib Dems is beyond the pale. They voted to close 25 rural schools and jumped into bed with the Independent group to gain power only to vote against the proposals a few weeks later. For someone like Alison Hay who is a former leader of Argyll and Bute Council to behave like this is unbelievable. I did think she was a woman of principle but she is showing her true colours and picking up quite an enhancement in salary at the same time. Unlike the SNP who gave up their enhanced posts to stand up for their communities.

Alison Hay's community in Minard must feel quite betrayed by her as they are fighting to keep their school open. What a shame we don't have an election this year but the electorate have long memories and this particular betrayal will not be forgotten.

there was no vote to close 25 schools but a vote to go to consultation

I agree with much of what Nancie says. I suppose where I am coming from is that there was universal agreement that the proposals were flawed and misleading (to put it very kindly) and that the Liberals agreed this and yet endorsed the proposals by taking the proposals to the next stage, knowing that they would be most likely be rejected by the Education Minister when the process reached that stage. As you know there was very bad feeling about Cllr Rory Colville who lead the Southend community to understand, at a public meeting, that he could not support the proposals....and then he did.

The vote that was taken was to go to consultation to close.

It must rub salt in the wound, Deirdre, to see Alison Hay standing in front of the Southend School sign

Has Cllr Hay actually been inside Southend primary?
Or was the photo of her outside the school a sneaked shot taken at midnight?

I am not aware that Cllr Hay has been down to Southend Primary for years, if at all. There was a planned visit that was cancelled before Xmas.

Could be the whole thing was Photoshopped. Surely not .....