Angus

And by trying to, by resisting creating sort of a new layer of of local councillors, they've ended up with this potentially very stupid scenario where you can end up having regional councils of hundreds or local councils of one or two people, and neither of those things are healthy for our local democracy.

So what would your ideal kind of model be then? Let's say we are moving to a model where, you know, there's maybe Dundee City has a couple of community authorities, Perth is a community authority, parts of Angus, you know, you could obviously dial down into...

or for Montrose or some of these areas where we have community authorities do you want to see more representation at like a hyper local level versus then the regional bodies being a little bit smaller than the you know say for example you know in that Tayside example that you know there could be 40-50 at Tayside but it's the actual local areas you know the community authorities that have the bulk of the councillors is that something closer to you what you think the model should be?

So I've set out and this is very much sort of what a nerd has done out of interest what would potentially look like if we had something a bit more like Excuse me, something a bit more like how they do it in Denmark called my new municipalism project.

And perhaps that process of getting at least one of the other parties to back this might push them in a more sensible direction.

Yeah, I mean, one thing that some councillors and some observers have raised concerns over as well regarding that potential erosion of local democracy is that you...

If you have a Grampian board or a Tayside board, for example, is that, you know, right now, if you're in Angus, if you're in Aberdeenshire, you know, these are big, vast areas and there's plenty of rural areas that feel ignored.

But there is a risk that you move all the decision making to Aberdeen, to Dundee and that areas around these cities get forgotten about.

So I would rank this region as number one, history, number two, culture, and number three, nature.

Okay, region number six is Dundee and Angus.

So Angus is actually the region and Dundee is the major city in the region.

And it's actually very, very far south of the region along the coast.

So this region is between Fife and Aberdeenshire.

And there's the RRS Discovery, which is a museum ship.

And of course, this region isn't just Dundee.

There's also the countryside of Angus, which is really diverse as far as scenery goes.

And his team are playing some very effective football also.

But on Forfar as well, Jim Weir's team, they're a bit like Montrose, the fellow Angus outfit, where they'll have these streaks of great form and then they'll just kind of fall off a cliff.

And I don't think they'll be in any immediate danger this season.

But I don't see them contending for the playoffs, which is a bit of a shame because of the amount of players that Don Flemming have gave them through loan deals in the past.

They both, they, they, they all-- there was two groups of people I know.

Lads from Eagle that went to Holland, and lads from Forfarshire that went to, uh, Malahide.

Mm-hmm.

They both, they, they both had good experiences.

Yeah

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Forfarshire to Aberdeenshire back to his boyhood club.

Quite interesting to see, uh, to see moves like that.

I've got a quiz question for you.

Actually, I had a few days holiday in Carnoustie, the Angus coast.

Ouch.

Yeah, don't go in the sea.