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 Search for political candidate to “defend our day of rest”

 

 Exciting show at the Celtic Festival    

 

 Mission impossible

 

 Festival turnout is not locals’ fault   

 

 Don’t blame the locals for festival problems

 

 Small village mentality    

 

 A new beginning    

 

 Religious Fundamentalism and Politics     

  

 We definitely won't be fooled again  

 

 Won’t get fooled again

 

 Wrong to criticise Continuing representative

 

 Breath of hot air    

 

 Not the end of Sunday    

 

 Lessons have to be learnt from Sunday sailings debate

 

 Not about specific days

 

 Cal Mac have sensibly listened   

   

  We are, today, all losers   

 

  Council refused to consult on Sunday ferries  

 

  Dispute over Sabbath  

 

 Macneil misses the point       

  

 Stop scraping the bottom   

 

 The islands are bleeding our young  

 

 Politicians that put people rather than party first

 

 Folk who have forgotten how to blush  

 

 Everyone has a right to their opinion  

 

 Already lost the war    

 

 Sell Sunday   

    

 Call for legal pressure group for Sunday public services     

 

 Ferry row steered off course by Sabbath day debate

 

 A man with a fork in a world full of soup  

 

 Sunday ferry will divide families   

         

 Poor broadband speeds

 

 Shifting sands of ecclesiastical tradition     

                
 Is Spinningdale salvage worth it ?  

 

 Authenticity of the figures        

 

 Christian island keeps families separate in times of need

 

Broadband Slow Down

 

►  Ferries, statistics and rich against the poor

 

 The Dangers of Home Brew  

 

►  Sadly Mistaken

 

►  Wider agreement over councillors’ criticism

 

►  The people of Stornoway have spoken  

 

►  Free Citizens

 

 Muddle, nonsense, and dodgy American theology  

 

 All rhetoric and no convincing reason to oppose Sunday ferry  

 

 Very much mistaken

 

 Sunday ferries debate is theological   

 

►  God is not bound by time   

 

 Observe in the right spirit

 

 Sporadic broadband       

  

 Councillors scared of losing gravy train

 

 Neither mistaken nor misinformed

 

 Sabbath ferries indeed    

 

 Sunday referendum is a dead duck

 

 Debate over which day is the Sabbath

 

 Unhappiness over broadband provider

 

 Campaign Undead

 

 Thank you friends from the Western Isles     

 

 Why the Christian Sabbath changed to the first day of the week

 

 No foot note for Lewis dispensation

  

 Sunday is not the Sabbath         

        

 Hold referendum on Sunday issue

 

 Sunday is what you make it    

 

 Quest for Sunday golf continues     

 

 Confusion over inter village banter  

 

 No backtracking on boycott claim    

     

 What’s needed is love       

 

 Am I bovvered ?    

 

 Biblical arguments about the Sabbath  

 

 Last time until the next time  

 

 How about a popularity vote ?   

 

 Supposed to be a free country    

 

 Question has been answered     

 

 Oh My Darling..

 

 Take that as a NO then

 

 No spade required  

 

 Pharisees’ stance in Sunday ferry debate     

 

 The campaign that never was?   

 

►  What is the lowest common denominator ?    

     

 Trump solution for Sunday golf       

          

 Majority opinion opposes Sunday golf   

   

 Will not be intimidated      

 

 No logical reason against Sunday golf in Stornoway    

 

 Local Christians shun the battle for the Lord's Day   

    

 No Union Jack on South Beach          

 

 Sabbath sports at International Island Games

 

 Majority of Stornoway Trust voters oppose Sunday golf

 

 Back to the Future

 

 Rant of odysseic proportions

 

►  Referenda for all

 

 Claim that “baying rent-a-mob” marred radio debate      

 

 Assurances over Sunday golf

 

 Sunday Ferries -  It’s Time    

 

 What customer boycott at Bragar shop ?

 

 Our children are voting    

 

 Campaign for 7-Day Sailings is against a referendum ?

 

 Sunday ferries... on and on

 

 A joy to open a Sunday shop

 

 Church traffic is more disruptive than Sunday ferry  

 

 Court Appearances  -  Lewis Free Court             

 

 Clarification wanted on Sunday work at golf course

 

 No right to block the highway

 

 Southern Master from the manse

 

 Humble request to play Sunday golf    

 

 Islanders tired of lectures from southern masters  

 

 No fuss about Sabbath trading at Bernera shop  

 

 What ever happened to choice?    

 

 The people were never asked   

 

 Sabbath ferry would lead to 7-day consumer capitalism  

 

 Council was never elected on Sunday ferries

 

 Council was never elected on Sunday ferries            

                 

 Sunday sailings will not destroy Sabbath tradition   

     

 New Labour responsible for Uist job cuts

 

 Comhairle is accountable to electorate on Sunday ferries  

 

 Sunday ferries and Sunday golf       

  

 Apology to the LDOS    

 

 Not speaking for the LDOS  

   

 Free will     

 

 Economic reality of Sunday sailings    

 

 Your friendly local psychopath

      

 Sunday ferry would give people a choice    

    

 Machiavellianism    

 

“Rage and bluster”   

 

 Howling of the arrogant colonial (Continuing)    

 

 “The howling of the arrogant colonial”

 

 Sunday sport in the Baltic   

  

 Macleod had bit of a rant       

 

 Majority not always right    

 

 Majority want to keep their Lord's Day         

 

 Sunday Ferry: Let the Islanders vote with their feet   

 

 Memories of the “Scottish Amnesia Party”  

 

 Let the Islanders vote with their feet (Continuing)  

 

 Things will change  

 

 “Exaggerated claims” over Euro election   

 

 Baby, we all got pain   

 

 Sunday Ferry: Let the Islanders vote with their feet  

 

 A Sunday ferry makes perfect sense    

 

 Why settle on Lewis if you detest its culture ?    

 

 Macleod criticised for “anti incomer venom”   

 

 Democracy only works some of the time   

 

 Hold church sermons onboard a Sunday ferry    

 

 Council should survey islanders over Sunday ferry  

 

 Sunday ferry debate rolls on      

 

 “Insulting rant” against incomers   

 

  “Daily Mail scourge of the Liberals"     

 

 Sunday ferry supporters do stoop to personal attacks

 

 Lewis is not the Promised Land  

 

 Mocking islanders for bigotry is the mark of a fool   

 

 John Macleod is fighting a losing battle   

 

  Churches should get own house in order

 

  Hold a referendum on Sunday ferries

 

  Caledonian MacBrayne discriminates against no one  

 

  Pro-Sunday sailings lobby is loud but not logical    

 

  Prevention of Sunday ferry is religious discrimination

 

  Is the LDOS afraid of the facts ?  

 

 Pro-Sunday sailings lobby is loud

 

  Since when has logic played a role in any argument where religion is concerned?

 

 Substantial body of opinion for Sunday ferry   

 

 “No proof that majority want Sunday ferry”

 

 Who do the LDOS think they are?      

 

 No personal insults against “extreme religious  fundamentalists” in Sunday ferry row    

 

 Most island voters “like the traditional Lewis Sunday”  

 

 LDOS should “stop dictating how people live their lives”

 

 Council “dictatorship” against Sunday ferry    

 

 Sunday ferry playground argument      

►  Councillors “undemocratic and arrogant”  over Sunday ferry opposition

►  Macsween is urged to test the electorate   

►  Free Church is “opportunistic and predatory” in Kirk’s division        

►  Hypocrisy of council over Sunday ferry     

   Sunday ferry is first step to retaining talent skills      

►   “A price to pay” for Sunday ferry      

►   LDOS should “get off its rock”  over  Sunday ferry     

►  New bus service left passenger stranded  

 Absence of ducks on bus tour

Call for Gaelic newspaper with “real news”

►  Appalled at “politically motivated attacks”     

►  Disappointment at move to shut Bayble secondary

 Council takes “absolutely no notice of public opinion”  

►  The wall that nobody wants       

►  Questions about bus contracts      

 Doubling of the bus provision                                            

 Point bus trip is “excellent value for money”   

 Another fine mess!”  

►  Council’s magical mystery tour

►  Unhappiness over bus service in Point   

►  Council’s response to queries over Point bus service   

►  Adventure on council bus service     

►  Point bus service is “comedy of errors”

 Call to “bombard” Eastern Airways over oil flights

 Eastern Airways treating travellers with “complete contempt”

Importance of answering the question

Golf Club Sunday opening  

Candidate slates critic over Sunday golf claim

Criticism of Trust candidate over Sabbath observance

 

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