tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17278382.post5481560771129227294..comments2023-10-16T08:37:22.742+00:00Comments on An incredulous eye on the isles: Voluntary sector facing cutsElectricCrofterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09495260997875836669noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17278382.post-77104164762310866172008-03-10T13:59:00.000+00:002008-03-10T13:59:00.000+00:00johan - speaking as a Christian, yes they should d...johan - speaking as a Christian, yes they should do even more for the secular charities, however this does not mitigate the fact that they should not HAVE to do so!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17278382.post-36020520322499277402008-03-10T11:13:00.000+00:002008-03-10T11:13:00.000+00:00Those at the dizzy heights with big fat salaries, ...Those at the dizzy heights with big fat salaries, big fat pensions and options of early retirement will make sure that they protect their own corners whilst everything else that is necessary grinds to a halt around them. They will then blame the SNP government for forcing these cuts onto them.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17278382.post-37719461087983170752008-03-10T10:00:00.000+00:002008-03-10T10:00:00.000+00:00Whatever those in the rarefied heights at the Comh...Whatever those in the rarefied heights at the Comhairle do in the end, we can be sure that they will exercise the same incompetence with which they've handled the w******* fiasco.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17278382.post-24753118992095857412008-03-09T23:15:00.000+00:002008-03-09T23:15:00.000+00:00Anon 6.31- wasn't that precisely what the Chief Ex...Anon 6.31- wasn't that precisely what the Chief Executives "on and on and ongoing neverending useless review" was supposed to do, all those years ago?<BR/>So where are we now- front line staff and those at the lower end of the pay scales being shafted, while senior staff and their spouses\colleagues\and the favoured few cavort about on endless sprees to the mainland,at our expense.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17278382.post-31697635763382896802008-03-09T23:05:00.000+00:002008-03-09T23:05:00.000+00:00Rumour has it that Cooncillors baulked from a rece...Rumour has it that Cooncillors baulked from a recent proposal to savage Social Work Department and divvy it up between Education and Sustainable Communities ( now theres a laugh!)<BR/>Pity help us if the wasters in Suss Comm ever get their greedy hands on the care of the elderly.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17278382.post-16502106859534385172008-03-09T20:52:00.000+00:002008-03-09T20:52:00.000+00:00Can I make a suggestion? There are many millions o...Can I make a suggestion? There are many millions of pounds lying around in the bank accounts of a number of Lewis organisations...<BR/><BR/>The churches in particular on Lewis have significant amounts of wealth. Search on Lewis on the <A HREF="http://www.oscr.org.uk/CharityIndexResultsNew.aspx" REL="nofollow">database of Scottish charities</A>.<BR/><BR/>If they opened up and invested more in voluntary sector, community and local small business developments, this would help tremendously. It would also give the churches some credibility as organisations that help their communities, rather than (their current image) just dictate to locals what they should do.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17278382.post-87595483602963352202008-03-09T19:01:00.000+00:002008-03-09T19:01:00.000+00:006.31pmHere, here!6.31pm<BR/><BR/>Here, here!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17278382.post-60035934957842131732008-03-09T18:31:00.000+00:002008-03-09T18:31:00.000+00:00Bad news for the voluntary sector, and the first ...Bad news for the voluntary sector, and the first casualty is likely to be the excellent 'Choose life' project run by VAL. This is an innovative project that has featured in the national press, yet the clowns at the Comhairle have chosen to sacrifice this to save their own skins. What a pity that the dead wood, dead beat costly senior officers are not being cleared out first. Time for some serious scrutiny of what these cnes officers actually deliver.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com