Rab C Nesbitt lives!

Apr 27 2008 Elaine C. Smith

But This Cooncillor Really Is Beyond A Joke

NICE to see that the real Rab C. Nesbitt exists in the form of cooncillor Peter Boyes.

Apparently, when Midlothian was debating whether to support the Scottish Independence Convention or not, he was a bit cheeky about myself as elected chairperson.

According to Rab C. Boyes (as the other councillors have dubbed him) I have no right to be involved in anything other than acting.

I didn't realise becoming an actor meant giving up my right to be an active citizen in my own country.

Does that mean doctors and lawyers must also stick to doing one job and not become involved in their local politics?

I wonder what Mr Boyes does as his day job before taking the public shilling as a councillor. Was he born qualified in local cooncilling?

He said: "Alex Salmond's proposals look like an episode of Chewin' The Fat without the jokes and now we're being presented with a request for a Scottish conversation by Mary Doll.

"Elaine C. Smith should stick to acting instead of interfering with the Scotland Act."

God, I'm falling about laughing. He's hilarious. Billy Connolly better watch out.

Stick to cooncilling Mr Boyes instead of trying to be a comedian... Or is that one and the same?

I AM all for looking at alternative ways to find new energy sources and wind and water power are great alternatives.

I actually like the look of wind turbines...there's something quite beautiful about them.

But I understand the thousands of objections to a plan for thousands of them to be placed in an area of great beauty on the isle of Lewis.

Gone are the days when a massive industrial plant can just be plonked down without any consultation and that has to be a good thing. I don't think the Government in Scotland had any choice but to reject this given the objections on so many grounds.

We need new ways of finding energy but developments must be planned hand-in-hand with local people and should be based on sound advice which takes into account all of the evidence and the feelings of the community.

WELL, the public will at least have a bit of respect for the shareholders of RBS for giving some of their massive profits back to help the bank with its sums.

It's only right, isn't it? Why should the rest of us have to bail them out of their mismanagement?

Privatising the huge profits they make then nationalising the debt - as has happened with Northern Rock - is just not good enough.