Aileen Colleran’s Blog

Nationalism – is it just me that struggles with questions of identity ? Maybe the most telling aspect is what I describe myself as when out of the country – Scottish without hesitation. It’s always easier for me to identify as Scottish when not in Scotland – a phenomenon most ex-pats experience.
Yes, but … technically, [...]

Opened up the Evening Times to find…
Tesco will boost area
AT long last, someone who does want Tesco in Partick (SMJ, Letters, April 20).Hopefully the good people of Partick will do the right thing on May 3 and NOT re-elect Aileen Colleran to the council. To my mind, she’s apparently not interested in reducing unemployment [...]

I feel really sorry for the posties just now as they must be lugging around bags of political material and postal votes. Does anyone actually read the leaflets that come through the door ? I always wonder about that, especially as I’m slogging around Partick streets with my team trying to get my leaflet delivered [...]

 ..Except that paradise doesnt exactly describe the former scrapyard site in Beith Street at Partick – but that’s no reason to accept a massive Tesco megastore. What a dismal and limited vision for a site on the bank of the River Kelvin , a new church of consumerism, a temple of temptation, with aisles [...]

Unlike MSP’s , we are councillors right up until the stroke of midnight on May 2nd , so we are involved in official duties even though we’re up for election. The civic duty side of being a councillor is something I was familiar with from my family background – there’s evidence to support a [...]

I thought of you when they closed down the school
And the hospital too
Did they think that you were better?
They were wrong
You had so many friends
They all left you in the end
‘Cause they couldn’t take the patter
And I’ll see you baby when the clans rise again
Women and men united by a struggle
Going down
You’ve got to walk [...]

Alice Cooper – what a great theme tune for the insanity of an election campaign. Are politicans and political activists living in a parallel universe ? Today was a beautiful sunny day with normal people going about their lives on a Saturday , whilst up and down the length of the country some dedicated people [...]