Posted by: allabouteve on: October 31, 2007
An end to the right to buy ! That’ll be the headline following Nicola Sturgeons announcement on housing policy except that it’s not quite as clear cut as that – a consultation process , followed by legislation … to restrict the right to buy for NEW social rented housing. So existing properties can still be [...]
Posted by: allabouteve on: October 27, 2007
Saturday surgeries are already proving to be busier than evening weekday ones, and have quite a variety of issues to tackle as a result – including the three people who stopped me in the street on my way to the Burgh Hall. Maybe I should just wander up and down Dumbarton Road with a notebook [...]
Posted by: allabouteve on: October 25, 2007
No-one likes to pay taxes, that’s a given. I also don’t enjoy paying my factor’s bill, but then I don’t have to clean my stairs or cut the grass in my backcourt. Somewhere along the line (I blame Thatcher and the Tory years - a wee cliche that has the resounding ring of truth, there is no such [...]
Posted by: allabouteve on: October 25, 2007
A sure sign of a blogger being on holiday or having computer malfunction is when the updates cease.. I had high hopes of being able to maintain a seamless service from the internet terminals on board the cruise ship where I was having my first holiday since the elections, but at £10 for five minutes I swiftly [...]
Posted by: allabouteve on: October 15, 2007
Not that I want to intrude on private grief, but isn’t is bizarre that the leader of a party resigns and suddenly all the talking heads are on the news channels.. except for the man himself ? Surely if Ming Campbell wanted to dispell any speculation that he’d had a call from the men in [...]
Posted by: allabouteve on: October 15, 2007
As the third goal went in on Saturday, the texts from various SNP supporting friends started to clog up the in-box of my mobile – pointing out (again) that the national football team haven’t lost under an SNP “government”. Whilst this is all very pleasant and delightful for them, may I respectfully point out the [...]
Posted by: allabouteve on: October 12, 2007
Sometimes I think people imagine councillors are incredibly powerful and all you need to do is lift the phone and demand “make it so” – oh, I wish.. After 8 years experience I’ve realised it doesn’t quite work that way. In the early days after my first election (before emails and members liaison officers) I [...]
Posted by: allabouteve on: October 9, 2007
Or not , as the case may be.. So, no election this autumn (or next year) and bloggers and journalists up and down the land are going to have a lot of fun over the next few days and weeks on the subject of the race that never was. The most disappointed people I know [...]
Posted by: allabouteve on: October 9, 2007
Nothwithstanding all the election speculation, life goes on with a busy week of community and council meetings. Some weeks you end up being out almost every night at a meeting and for me it always seems to be the first week of the month. Introduced myself to Jordanhill community council, had a good discussion about [...]
Posted by: allabouteve on: October 4, 2007
Not that I believe in inverse snobbery, but there’s something deeply unpalatable about David Cameron’s air of ineffable smugness and conscious belief in his own superiority and fitness to rule us mere mortals. His would be tour de force conference speech – look at me, I can speak without autocue, ie; waffle on for far [...]
