http://maciverblog.co.uk/2011/04/09/comhairle-and-cops-in-clever-0845-con/ Scottish journalist and broadcaster Tue, 25 Dec 2012 06:20:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://maciverblog.co.uk/2011/04/09/comhairle-and-cops-in-clever-0845-con/#comment-1867 Sun, 10 Apr 2011 22:19:36 +0000 http://maciverblog.co.uk/?p=3532#comment-1867 If what David Wilson is saying is true, then Norman A Macdonald should stand down. If not, I would expect the electorate in Mr Macdonald’s ward to show him whose boss at the next council elections.

]]> http://maciverblog.co.uk/2011/04/09/comhairle-and-cops-in-clever-0845-con/#comment-1866 Sun, 10 Apr 2011 16:18:50 +0000 http://maciverblog.co.uk/?p=3532#comment-1866 I thought I might see the name Norman A Macdonald somewhere in this sad little story. Is this the same Norman Macdonald who claimed £4,166 “car and van mileage allowance” in 2009-2010 compared with an average £872 by the other councillors PLUS £8,506 other travel expenses compared with £1,761 for the other 30. That’s total travel expenses of £12,672 and you could travel 10 times round the world for that. And I know its the same Norman A Macdonald who voted to close a school in his own ward because, he says, the Comhairle is short of money. Not that I’m accusing him of anything illegal.

]]> http://maciverblog.co.uk/2011/04/09/comhairle-and-cops-in-clever-0845-con/#comment-1865 Sun, 10 Apr 2011 10:39:39 +0000 http://maciverblog.co.uk/?p=3532#comment-1865 No need to be an expert to work out that this is another CNES scam. The firm I worked for darn sarf switched to IP telephony about 10 years ago. A much bigger organisation than the council, we all kept our extension numbers, the firm kept its own main number etc. In fact there was no chnages of number at all to save having letterheads, businesss cards and so forth, having to be re-printed. So…apart from tinkering with the website, will the Comhairle now have to re-do all of it’s information/promotional bumph too?

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