tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10213884.post1612962837133246698..comments2024-02-17T21:46:12.329+00:00Comments on A Gurn from Nurn: A Links litter incidentGraisghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07238279516517079956noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10213884.post-17054323846603501752012-05-23T22:00:39.648+00:002012-05-23T22:00:39.648+00:00Yes if the 3 co-opted members had bothered to stan...Yes if the 3 co-opted members had bothered to stand a ballot would have needed to have taken place. Actually the 3 co-opted members of River have more votes than the rest of the members. 5 people put themselves forward and there was a secret ballot among the councillors that were returned unopposed to chose 3 of them.Graisghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07238279516517079956noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10213884.post-83904761851147031332012-05-23T21:38:48.286+00:002012-05-23T21:38:48.286+00:00>> I actually stood for River but didn't...>> I actually stood for River but didn't take it up as I didn't want to be any sort of rep for the community without being elected<br /><br />That was very decent of you, but has it not perpetuated the torpor? You could have hung-around for one session and put your heart and soul into it (just as many volunteers are in community association roles which don't even allow for an Alechttp://efrafandays.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10213884.post-23793817357608528472012-05-23T21:10:55.625+00:002012-05-23T21:10:55.625+00:00This time round West and Suburban were contested a...This time round West and Suburban were contested and River had one below the line for a contest. I actually stood for River but didn't take it up as I didn't want to be any sort of rep for the community without being elected. Some of those that were elected to River CC however had the Kudos of having previously been chosen by the voters. <br />Here there is a lot of interest in CCs given Graisghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07238279516517079956noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10213884.post-27696862699494233012012-05-23T19:52:22.936+00:002012-05-23T19:52:22.936+00:00It wasn't a criticism of the office of CCer......It wasn't a criticism of the office of CCer... more a query about nomenclature. <br /><br />Do I take it that the CCs in Nurn are hotly contested? Thurso's was one of many in which all got in uncontested, and has even fewer after a brace of resignations and one death.<br /><br />Bower CC almost had to be <a href="http://www.johnogroat-journal.co.uk/News/Alechttp://efrafandays.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10213884.post-31467089602125940082012-05-23T17:10:29.896+00:002012-05-23T17:10:29.896+00:00Bullying and ignorant? - that's too deep an in...Bullying and ignorant? - that's too deep an interpretation I'd say. I would say vociferous and determined to cross-examine Sgt Hansen on litter and the incident he related. OTT? It depends what hits the spot for you, maybe you should be there next time.Graisghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07238279516517079956noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10213884.post-67481688819860312492012-05-23T16:32:06.592+00:002012-05-23T16:32:06.592+00:00So here we have a complaint about what is in effec...So here we have a complaint about what is in effect young people showing disrespect for their community by allegedly dropping litter, and yet we have a community councillor who seems to find it perfectly OK to show by the same token very little or no respect towards a community Police officer. In days of old she could have given him a clip around the ear and sent him on his way. I for one would I wasn't there eithernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10213884.post-83716324100474197902012-05-23T16:06:05.432+00:002012-05-23T16:06:05.432+00:00Graham Kerr is elected by voters in the West CC ar...Graham Kerr is elected by voters in the West CC area Alec. Some of our Community Councillors in Nairn (love them or loath them) put in a tremendous amount of work into community campaigns and projects. Some of them I would suggest do more than some paid Highland Councillors have done in the past. I personally think them worthy of being sddressed as councillor and a lot of them enjoy the same Graisghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07238279516517079956noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10213884.post-29714072164581115732012-05-23T15:57:39.126+00:002012-05-23T15:57:39.126+00:00Also, given that Kerr is a community councillor, I...Also, given that Kerr is a community councillor, I would have thought CC or CCer was a more appropriate abbreviation; as opposed to Cllr which, to my mind, suggests a local councillor.<br /><br /><br />~alecAlechttp://efrafandays.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10213884.post-46084393576476301552012-05-23T11:11:42.921+00:002012-05-23T11:11:42.921+00:00From my own observations, there's a temptation...From my own observations, there's a temptation in such situations to adopt a tone with the Po-Po which the speaker never would get away with on the street.<br /><br />Misplaced anger, sort of thing. You think blogs are bad?<br /><br /><br />~alecAlechttp://efrafandays.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10213884.post-89724730503277175752012-05-22T19:42:52.737+00:002012-05-22T19:42:52.737+00:00It seems to me that in recent times some West Comm...It seems to me that in recent times some West Community Councillors want to increasingly move their area towards a full Police State. The call for roads to be blocked off to the general public, and now Cllr Graham Kerr having the temeraty to harass a Police officer for not showing as far as I can see greater interest in a litter problem which by all accounts was dealt with by the Police. Maybe west isn't bestnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10213884.post-9949860761316611932012-05-22T15:11:11.463+00:002012-05-22T15:11:11.463+00:00This is why I enjoy reading the Gurn, most other s...This is why I enjoy reading the Gurn, most other sites would have been off on a rabid rant about the 'feral' youth. Nicely written and well reasoned.<br /><br />None of this is new either, it's the same thing I did 10 years ago sitting down at the links. I can't imagine much has changed in Nairn since I left and there was very little for us to do back then.<br /><br />The AuldSkaternoreply@blogger.com