I see from today's Greenock Telegraph that Stuart McMillan MSP is trying to take credit for the imminent Government U-turn over funding for Riverside Inverclyde, when only last week he was making excuses for the savage cut in RI's budget by laying the blame at the door of the current and previous Westminster Governments.
Our Stuart has clearly been tipped off by his Ministerial colleagues and told to get in first. There is must be an election in the offing?
The truth of course is that the Government has been forced into a change of heart by the fact that they entered into an agreement with local government to ring fence £12.5m for the four URCs and they now have to honour this. This will mean that an additional £5.7m will be allocated across the four URCs. Hopefully RI will receive a fair share of this funding.
Perhaps the bold Stuart can now turn his attention to the funding crisis at James Watt College. Surely a man with his influence can persuade his SNP colleagues to give the college some more money?
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
You seem to be talking a lot about the SNP, election in the offing??? Nothing positive to say about Labour? Iraq war, trident, recession...
ReplyDeleteAre you one of those Cyber Nats I keep hearing about?
ReplyDeleteNotice you never picked up on the substance of the previous comment Mr. McCabe.
ReplyDeleteI will once I know who I am speaking to Mr Elliott.
ReplyDeleteBefore the three Stoogies Mssrs McMillan, Finnie and McNeill all claim "credit" for the Scottish Government allocating extra funding to Riverside Inverclyde announced yesterday, as I will not be voting for any of them come May, any chance that you could be persuaded to stand as MSP, at least we could be confident in voting for someone that actually would work for the people, not their own ego like the three aforementioned.
ReplyDeleteIn response to the cyber nats and councillor Osborne who has chosen to EXPOSE the scandal of expenses on his blog(but only Labour)I would like to toss in a little SNP twist.
ReplyDeleteI agree all irregularities should be investigated.
So lets just have a small snipet of the SNP.
Scottish Islamic foundation in Glasgow was awarded £400,000 by the SNP in the hope that the leaders skills in the world of identity politics would win them the favour of Scotland's Muslim voters.
For this reason, he was selected as an SNP candidate at the last election.
This huge financial award from the SNP to an organisation run by an SNP candidate led many to accuse the head of the party, Alex Salmond, of using public money for SNP organisations. £128,000 had to be returned because of irregularities.It is also particularly interesting that the Muslim Sufi community who had a labour councillor helping them had a request for £30,000 to fund a Sufi festival in Glasgow refused.
I am not excusing wrong doing but SNP councillors and MSPs should leally get of the moral high ground,as there are more little snipets like the one mentioned above.
Colin
I agree with both comments above,why dont you stand as an MSP, and the story above I have never heard .Why is that as it is scandalous
ReplyDeleteThank you in your confidence in me but I will be supporting Labour's two excellent candidates - Duncan McNeil in Inverclyde and Stuart Clark in Renfrew North and West (which includes Kilmacolm and Quarrier's Village).
ReplyDeleteIf the opportunity arose one day I would like to represent Inverclyde in the Scottish Parliament.
Hello Stephen
ReplyDeleteTo stand for the Parliament you would need to work on your personal skills. The attack dog personality wont go down well through there matey.
Thanks for the helpful advice.
ReplyDeleteCan you recommend any good courses?