Not so shock news about the Rocket Range (updated)
As the Councillors sat at the MOD briefing in Benbecula last week and were told the disastrous news about the plans for the facility, another bombshell was dropped.
According to the MOD, some time previously they had given a personal briefing to Messrs MacNeil and Allan about all the options that were facing the range and the probable course of action that was going to be followed.
This had occurred during a half-day visit to Rangehead where they were shown the facilities and told how the place operated.
So the cries of surprise and shock are nothing more than cover for their inaction.
Given a few weeks notice, where was their attempt to muster the forces of opposition with the Council, development agencies, Government Departments, Ministers, Defence Committee members or even the Scottish Government to ride to the rescue?
Instead, inertia replaced action and 125 jobs are lost as a consequence.
And we are supposed to be impressed with a pointless intervention in the Parliament as a substitute for doing their job.
Updated: I understand that the MOD made their claim in front of Cllrs Angus Campbell, Peter Carlin, Donald John MacSween and SNP Group Leader Donald Manford. The later, in particular, has not to my knowledge disputed either the claim or the existence of the advance breifing.
According to the MOD, some time previously they had given a personal briefing to Messrs MacNeil and Allan about all the options that were facing the range and the probable course of action that was going to be followed.
This had occurred during a half-day visit to Rangehead where they were shown the facilities and told how the place operated.
So the cries of surprise and shock are nothing more than cover for their inaction.
Given a few weeks notice, where was their attempt to muster the forces of opposition with the Council, development agencies, Government Departments, Ministers, Defence Committee members or even the Scottish Government to ride to the rescue?
Instead, inertia replaced action and 125 jobs are lost as a consequence.
And we are supposed to be impressed with a pointless intervention in the Parliament as a substitute for doing their job.
Updated: I understand that the MOD made their claim in front of Cllrs Angus Campbell, Peter Carlin, Donald John MacSween and SNP Group Leader Donald Manford. The later, in particular, has not to my knowledge disputed either the claim or the existence of the advance breifing.
13 comments:
If you check my post "Hitting the wrong target" at 9.55AM. You will see that I was correct and these 2 useless halfwits have yet again let the people of the Western Isles down. They should do the cecent thing and stand down.
Macneil would have been slightly credible if he had asked Gordon Brown in PMQ what could be done for the people in his constituency etc. Instead, he launched a party-political attack; and 15 minutes later invoked SO24 to wail and gnash his teeth over the joblosses. I'm amazed Macneil had to claim for toilet paper on his parliamentary expenses, he's wiped his bum with the people of the Uists.
Name me 10 things the SNP have not done for the people of the Western Isles?
11:06
1. provided a casino
2. provided every citizen with £99999999 cash no questions asked(!)
3. free tobelerones for all(!)
4. cut down the castle grounds and replaced it with an adventure park
5. provided full employment
6. allowed a wind park on the Barvis moor
7. provided some jobs
(and you thought you were just going to get silly answers)
8. provided honest polititians - with no hint of sleaze
9. allowed those who want to to work on a Sunday
10. Most importantly PROVIDED INDEPENDENCE
I think you'll find that the MOD are lying through their teeth.
Anon 12.28 PM. Are you the Barra Bhuoy or the Beach Buoy, that makes you so sure. I certainly no who I would beleive and it would not be Dumb & Dumber.
Is the Barra Bhuoy the MP for the Western Isles or for the Philippines. He seems to be working more for the Filipinos than the locals.
Maybe time for a second update Angus. Seems that the MOD were telling porkies and Labour decided to build on the lies. Ooops. MacSween 0 - 1 SNP
Hello 10.33 do you now feel a bit of a cnut ?
Hello 12.44 do you also feel a bit of a silly cnut ?
When all is said and done we are in the hands of a bunch of treacherous lying twisted criminals known as NuLab or Tory. Speaker vote shows there is no difference between them. The only credible vote was from the guy who spoiled his paper refusing to vote for a bunch of crooks, the biggest of whom won
No doubt the cnut who spoiled his paper must have been the Barra Bhuoy. As he has fecked everything else he has touched.
This blog has recently become no more than an outlet for seething half-wit Labourites. Sad.
8.40
Actually it's an outlet for seethers and ranters of all stripes, who are disgusted with the politicians and their double talk, and who don't really know who's to blame for yet another fiasco that shows they all treat the Western Isles like a dispensable appendix. It's just particularly galling when our own elected representatives, whatever colour they are, go along with that.
The Western Appendix, that's what we are.
Maybe time for a second update Angus. Seems that the MOD were telling porkies and Labour decided to build on the lies. Ooops. MacSween 0 - 1 SNP
5:44 PM
I think you should read 24/06 Heb news e-mail proof. Game, set & match Macsween!!!
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