Despite its £2.1 billion pre-tax profit, Diageo makes new cost cuts
Diageo recently posted healthy pre-tax profits of £2.1 billion but there have been a serious of curious indications of the apparent state of its finances.Save money – dump the old folksThe first...
View ArticleDoes Ashcroft think Mulvaney can’t take Argyll & Bute?
Yesterday’s Independent (27th February) focused its major splash on the funding donated and managed by the Conservative Party Deputy Chair, Lord Ashcroft and targeted on the marginal seats the Tories...
View ArticleAngus, Ashcroft wonga and the pot and kettle game of politics
Reporting of the current row between the Scottish Conservatives and the SNP – over the accounting procedures covering the latter’s flyer campaign in the Angus constituency – has somehow lost sight of...
View ArticleLiberal candidate for Argyll and Bute confirmed: Whiter than Hay?
The merger of the honourable old Liberal party with the Johnny-come-lately of the UK Social Democrat Party to form the Liberal Democrats in 1988 has left us all prone to quick assumptions in how we...
View ArticleArgyll Bute Council: ‘THE ADMINISTRATION’– the price of communities
At the meeting of Argyll and Bute Council still in progress, the deals done over votes to send the fundamentally flawed school closure proposals to formal public consultation became shamefully...
View ArticleOban Lorn and the Isles area committee remains an opposition hold with a...
The multiple coalition currently providing the ruling administration of Argyll and Bute Council is made up of the Alliance of Independent Councillors, the LibDems and the Conservatives (dubbed the...
View ArticleWill the Tories accept Bruce Marshall’s transfer request?
News of Councillor Bruce Marshall – he who was met by loud groans before every contribution at the public meeting in Dunoon on the town’s ferries provision.That a crowded hall in a close-to-riotous...
View ArticleChat on the Kilmoryvine develops from yesterday
The word on the Kilmoryvine begins to make sense of yesterdays whispers that two members of the rump SNP group – the laughable ‘opposition’, after whipping to support the administration budget – are in...
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