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Comhairle proposed legal U-turn is commonsense          31/10/11

 

Sirs,

I enjoyed reading Dr Wilson's letter, and his preface "Well, well, well ..."

This reminded me of Shakespeare's "All's well, that ends well” and the famous quote:  "All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances ... "

Dr Wilson refers to the local council elections next May, suggesting that our present cohort of councillors must sit up and take note.

In particular, councillors are accused of having had the brass neck and pocketfulls of taxpayers' money (really?) to threaten to take on the Scottish Government to challenge their decision-making re "calling in" of proposed school closures here in the Western Isles. Reading about the Comhairle volte-face sounds to me like common sense has prevailed.

The building of new schools at a cost of £50 million has to date been well received: on time and within budget. Little has been published about the PFI Facilities Management contract signed up to for a cost of £45m (and probably rising over the years). PFI have been criticised nationally as being massively over-priced and poor value for money. I am concerned that there has been a lack of transparency and accountability re this particular aspect of the new schools "deal."

There are likely to be a significant number of "exits" next May. The Comhairle budget-setting process for the next financial year will of course have been decided by then. Prospective candidates please take note. A bed of roses does not await you.

Andrew Walker

3 Kyles Flodda

Isle of Benbecula

 


 

 

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