{"id":7412,"date":"2019-08-14T08:51:28","date_gmt":"2019-08-14T08:51:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lochnessmonster.co.uk\/blog\/?p=7088"},"modified":"2022-12-28T14:25:10","modified_gmt":"2022-12-28T14:25:10","slug":"calls-for-councilors-to-resign-over-river-ness-mess-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lochnessmonster.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/2019\/08\/14\/calls-for-councilors-to-resign-over-river-ness-mess-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Calls For Councilors to Resign Over River Ness Mess"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>As Highland Council struggles to care for its elderly, half a million pounds has been wasted on a pitiful new concrete mess that resembles a section of the old Berlin Wall planned to be sited alongside the beautiful River Ness.<\/p><div id=\"lochn-3918860908\" class=\"lochn-content lochn-entity-placement\"><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3003812232025940\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3003812232025940\" \ndata-ad-slot=\"\" \ndata-ad-format=\"auto\"><\/ins>\n<script> \n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); \n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lochnessmonster.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/river-ness-art.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7514\" width=\"284\" height=\"188\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lochnessmonster.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/river-ness-art.jpg 576w, https:\/\/lochnessmonster.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/river-ness-art-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 284px) 85vw, 284px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Highland Council art &#8211; not built yet and \u00a3500,000 already spent<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Some members of the public have called on the provost and other councilors to resign as they have been key actors in the secretive cabal of Highland councilors determined to push through their vanity project in the face of public outrage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One told this blog, <em>&#8220;the days of &#8216;if they don&#8217;t have bread let them eat cake&#8217; are long over and we have old people freezing and dying and a broken care system but the figurehead of Highland Council seems to think she in Marie-Antoinette&#8221;.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Highland Council had to be FORCED by law to reveal the scale of its profligacy as the local  campaign group, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/opennesshighland\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"OpenNess (opens in a new tab)\">OpenNess<\/a>, which is pledged to fight the provost&#8217;s nightmarish mess had to use <strong>The Freedom Of Information Act<\/strong> to obtain the figures relating to the secretive and vast wastage of public money.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You can read more about this awful tale of arrogance and indifference to the lives of Highlanders in the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.inverness-courier.co.uk\/news\/inverness-riverside-art-project-has-already-cost-taxpayers-500-000-181593\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" Inverness Courier. (opens in a new tab)\"> Inverness Courier.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Highland Council struggles to care for its elderly, half a million pounds has been wasted on a pitiful new concrete mess that resembles a section of the old Berlin Wall planned to be sited alongside the beautiful River Ness. Some members of the public have called on the provost and other councilors to resign &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lochnessmonster.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/2019\/08\/14\/calls-for-councilors-to-resign-over-river-ness-mess-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Calls For Councilors to Resign Over River Ness Mess&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[202,233,275,325,332,333,386,387],"class_list":["post-7412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-inverness","tag-loch-ness-monster","tag-nessie","tag-river-ness","tag-scotland","tag-scottish","tag-tourism","tag-tourist"],"aioseo_notices":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lochnessmonster.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lochnessmonster.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lochnessmonster.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lochnessmonster.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lochnessmonster.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7412"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lochnessmonster.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7412\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7568,"href":"https:\/\/lochnessmonster.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7412\/revisions\/7568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lochnessmonster.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lochnessmonster.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lochnessmonster.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}