Election 3rd May 2007

[The Hitman]

Did John Semple not get paid by the Dalriada Business Group to create a report?

Say around the region of £5000.00?

[Jock Strap]

Did John Semple not get paid by the Dalriada Business Group to create a report?

Say around the region of £5000.00?

And if he did, your point is? Did you get your wages last week?

[Sweltered]

I remember a guy in Inverness doing feasibilty study on the fishing in Moray a few years ago, he charged 20,000. Sold yerself short John ! (if this is true)

[John S]

It's worse than that Sweltered. 5K worse than that.

Well Hitman, wrong again, where are you getting this nonsense? The Daily Record. Perhaps you should ask your source to post under his (or her) own name then we can let the fox see the rabbit.

5K would have hardly scratched the work done for DBAG. I would reckon that the combined effort of the main players would have come to easy a 5 figure sum. That effort was freely given and all in the interests of this community.

[LO]

It's worse than that Sweltered. 5K worse than that.

Well Hitman, wrong again, where are you getting this nonsense? The Daily Record. Perhaps you should ask your source to post under his (or her) own name then we can let the fox see the rabbit.

5K would have hardly scratched the work done for DBAG. I would reckon that the combined effort of the main players would have come to easy a 5 figure sum. That effort was freely given and all in the interests of this community.

Dear oh dear, Hitman, for someone who aspires to be an assassin you appear to have a very poor aim and an even poorer grasp of reality.

I can confirm that what John S says is true and if you don't trust my word, you can ask some of our members such as Murdo MacLeod, Donnie McKerral, Robert Millar, Tom Pedersen, Bob Chicken, Peter Stogdale etc., not to mention John's employers at the time, CAKE Trust, who freely offered much of his working time (and office facilities) in addition to his own because they thought it was worth doing.

One thing that cracks me up about this board is the number of people that are prepared to have an opinion on everything but when it comes to the crunch they don't actually do anything constructive. Whether or not our efforts were ultimately in vain remains to be seen, but at least we stood up to be counted and tried our best to do something positive for the community. Nobody did it for fame or acclaim but it certainly seems like the thin end of the wedge when individuals hiding behind the cloak of anonymity think that they can crawl out of the woodwork and rubbish us at every opportunity.

One final thing Hitman. Whoever is feeding you the garbage you have spouted about DBAG and John S has made a complete fool of you.
If I was you I wouldn't stand for it. If you're going to live up to your name, you'll have to sort them out.
Oh, wait I forgot! You don't do "action" do you?

Les Oman
Chair
Dalriada Business Action Group

[bud]

hey hitman you don't half spout some pish on here between your go at the football and now good honest people standing up for the community

didn't take me long to work out who you are so lets just say I hope it doesn't run in the family

[The Hitman]

hey hitman you don't half spout some pish on here between your go at the football and now good honest people standing up for the community

didn't take me long to work out who you are so lets just say I hope it doesn't run in the family

I am only an inquisituve fellow, glad that I am being told the truth now!

And I am afraid it does run in the family, caught my daughter on the stairs this morning imitating that irritating Lynx Advert! You know the one I mean?

[Trapper]

RE: The ferry,

An aquaintance of mine who used to work for harrisons (clyde) shipping company, was telling me the other day that he was havily involved in preparing harrisons tender for the campbeltown ballycastle ferry a few years ago. I asked for more info and he explained that they had put in a tender which involved them building a brand spanking new boat, which would be designed so that if the route was successful (as they predicted) and increased capacity was needed, they could add an extra section to the boat to increase car lane capacity. The sticking point, unfortunately, was that harrisons wanted an extra 200,000 a year on top of the subsidy for the first 5 years to help towards the cost of the boat. I can nerstand why the politicians decided they couldn't increase the subsidy but it's interesting to note that a company with a great deal of experience and history in shipping thought this route could, in the long term, be a profitable venture.
If we could turn back time and the route had been awarded to cal mac, as was intended, the boat would still be running today and in the summer it would be hoaching with folk!

[Glory Blazer]

Oh I see the old ferry saga has been trotted out again!! Ho hum

I for one do not see the point in worrying over the ferry, I would rather we turned the building into a Harbour Restaurant, Bowling Alley or something, Campbeltown has survived for years before the ferry and will survive without a ferry. Maybe try and hit on the yachting side of things. Promote a yachting route round the coast with a high quality marina in the town. Ofcourse Scottish Water would have to extract the digit re sewage!

Would be good if it did even run for just the sprin/summer each year but I for one am not too bothered either way.

[Kilchoan]

Oh I see the old ferry saga has been trotted out again!! Ho hum

Okay, but it seemed to me this whole discussion was about baiting John S. Maybe the debate could broaden to include some other obvious problems.

I followed a Swedish flatbed up the road recently. Initially I thought he was slow because he was stupid/texting someone/eating his lunch. 40 minutes later I figured out he was just gobsmacked and bewildered by the nick of the road. Despite a landscape that makes ours look easy they expect a much higher standard even in remote areas. The scandanavians have long since left salt and the snowplough behind. Major roads are heated in the winter so they never get iced up ........... so why can't they even get to grips with drainage here?

And what will John S do about that?

[Glory Blazer]

Has a hustings been held yet? Anyone know?

[Kilchoan]

Has a hustings been held yet? Anyone know?

I heard there was one on 31st but don't know anything else about it. Doesn't Nancie Smith usually organise one?

[general jack o'niell]

you had them up john, i'll knock them down, you unlike your doubters do have a reputation to preserve, they only seek notoriaty.

and if your ever looking for a speech writer and are not too fussed about getting re-elected then you have my number, better one good punch than years of ineffectual slaps


i'm copyrighting all this just so you know!!!!!