Election 3rd May 2007

[deirdreh]

Deirdre,i`m with you i`m voteing Solidarity

Best of luck

Hi Abbey Craig,

Thanks for your support. It is much appreciated. Maybe if I am knocking on your door you can let me know who you are!

Cheers

[John S]

Just don't tell anyone who told you first ... it will be our wee secret!

Cheers, Mary

Perhaps you should have told Cathy J somthin' . Seems to be a bit in the dark on Newsnight

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cq4OsKUyTco

Chair of Labours Election Campaign - indeed

[general jack o'niell]

i'm sure of my first vote but after that? god help us and coming from an athiest thats saying something, or should i not have said that? would that exclude me from standing for public office in the future? that and a refusal to swear allegience

do cooncillors have to do that? still its nice to see the second and third best political brains of my generation standing for office, oops sorry forgot about the obvious one i'll place him fourth.

now all i need is a party that doesn't have a party line, or is that an independant?

john and mary have inspired me and i wish the the best of luck(you know i'm voting for one of you) i'm goingto be more proactive and less reactive in the future, all i need is a new identity and a fake passport, oh and a good smile for the courier.

[petewick]

Where did it say in the Courier that they were standing as Tories?

Donnie Kelly may be a Tory Councillor now, but it didn't say he and Jim were standing as Tories at the election.

Donnie Kelly stood as a conservative on his first election.

petewick

[Mole in a Hole]

Where did it say in the Courier that they were standing as Tories?

Pages 4 & 15

[general jack o'niell]

wheres my postal vote?, we now have a lovely poster of alex and nicola in the daughter window, thats what i like, get them young, she's beaten me in my allegience by three years, i see in the days paper theres a 15yr old cooncillor up in aberdeenshire (inverurie) i better start teaching her in time for the next elections, the boy in inverurie is only a community cooncillor, so judging by my daughters opinions about some of ours i reckon she'll be a shoo in!!!

[John S]

A picture paints a thousand words.

[petewick]

Hope you were'nt tinkring with that sign JS!

PETEWICK

[John S]

Not I, doesn’t look as if it's been tampered with - Although I hear that the council have removed a good number of Liberal posters in Oban for breach of electoral rules!!

[petewick]

Not I, doesn’t look as if it's been tampered with - Although I hear that the council have removed a good number of Liberal posters in Oban for breach of electoral rules!!

What rules were breached, John?

petewick

[John S]

No posters on Trunk Roads, which is apparently a rule.

[Beachcomber]

No posters on Trunk Roads, which is apparently a rule.

Does that mean A-roads? If so then perhaps they'll be removing the clutch of George Lyon ones at the junction of the A83 and the B8001, and those of the SNP and LibDems along the A83 betwixt there and Tarbert I saw this evening?

[LO]

Does that mean A-roads? If so then perhaps they'll be removing the clutch of George Lyon ones at the junction of the A83 and the B8001, and those of the SNP and LibDems along the A83 betwixt there and Tarbert I saw this evening?

Garry - the A83 is only classed as a trunk road as far as Kennacraig. Anywhere south of this point will not be affected by this rule.
The difference in classification means that the Scottish Executive are responsible for the A83 as far as Kennacraig, meaning repairs to that point are met by Central Government and repairs beyond are met by Argyll and Bute Council from the Council Tax.

Of course the A83 was trunked all the way to Campbeltown until RAF Machrihanish closed...........

Maybe we should be asking our wannabe politicians whether or not they are prepared to re-trunk the road from Kennacraig to Campbeltown?

[Beachcomber]

Lets George Lyon off the hook then but what about the others?

Good point about the trunking though. Presumably the earlier designation was because of heavy transport sevicing the base. Was there the same degree of logging traffic then?

[Ship called Dignity]

Conservatives only seem to be have 7 candidates across the council area within which 36 councillors will be elected

http://www.argyll-conservatives.org/candidates.php

Could be that the site is still to be updated. I see Donald's taking credit for campaigning for the ferry service although.

John, are you saying Donald did not campaign for the ferry service then? I have seen umteen letters from Donald to various parties especially over the last 12 months. Many more letters than either of the other two councillors could be bothered to send....so yes Donald did campaign.

PS - When is anyone coming to my door