Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened. Sir Winston Churchill

Message sent to Business Perthshire...............

Sadly so many of your comments are true Businesses closing down streets dirty people don't smile How they won the award last year???   I had my business ruined by the council I don't live in Perth any more Why am I still  proud to say I belong to Perth  I did my bit for The Black Watch   I find this site when I am looking through Visit Scotland and what it does. What has gone wrong with the place.????

Some e mails from well wishers

I would just like to say how delighted I was to read your refreshing take on Perthshire and its local councils. My family and I have, for many years disagreed with Council decisions. Take for example the cycle lane! Has anyone ever actually seen anyone cycling in it?? I think not! We certainly dont see the councillors getting out of as you say their "gas guzzling" motors to cycle down them to promote them! Another example being the amount of taxpayers money spent on the new concert hall. It beggars belief that we have a perfectly good City Hall to service those needs. It is reported that it will be working on a loss for the first 9 years of trading! Hmm wonder who will be paying for that!!! And all this so they can build some flashy new shoppers area at the City Hall, which lets face it will Perth people ever appreciate!! And to build big open air cafes! Is this Perth, Australia we are in?? No! Anyway I am so happy that their is finally someone who has had the nerve to stand up and say something and I fully back you all. My dad has always been very free on his speech regarding councillors and it is good there is other supporters of this. All hail you and keep up the good work. And as for Perth people being unwelcoming I couldnt agree more. If their noses were any further in the air they would be hitting the ceiling!.Regards One very happy reader.

P.S If you ever need any help researching anything give me a shout. I would be more than happy to help

Thanks for your reply. I would be happy for my comments to be added to your page. I am quite happy for my name to be added and will continue to visit your site regularlly. Funny how nobody seems to be taking ownership for the small businesses, many of which probably line the big cheeses pockets in some corrupt way!  They will unfortunately not discuss it with you because the arguements they have will probably not stand up against your very truthful statments and suspicions. My dad has been a resident in Perth for a large part of his life and has had nothing but bother from the council. They currently live in a 3 bed 2 bathroom bungalow in the Western Edge of the town and are being charged much higher council tax than their next door neighbours who live in a 4 bed 3 bathroom bungalow. This has been going on now for almost 16 years and I find it appaling that they can get away with that sort of behaviour despite many phonecalls from my parents! It is no way to do business and I am sure my parents aren't the only ones. No wonder they have lots of fundings for their flowers!!! As we have always said the PA was wrongly named, correct letters, wrong name. It should stand for Perth Arseholes!! Anyway it is great to finally have a website set up to discuss these thoughts. Keep up the good work. Claire

Your site is just great and so sadly true what you write! I had enough of Perthshite and his people .....and moved to Edinburgh. Keep up the good work Marco

Hi, more than welcome to use it! Is such a shame that wonderful area is ruined by a such a bunch of people I am still often around Crieff...my mother lives there...but will move shortly...may be our road will cross somewhere... All the best

Great news, keep strong! The ones who speak the truth have the hardest ride in this world of lies, but in the end they land on top of the pile, and the liars sit below chewing on a wasp. Put that on the site as an encouraging email!. Martin

Hi Peeps, Thanks for a proper insight to Perthshire, long may your website thrive. PCC are blinkered nothing negative on their site obviously they don't live in Perth!! Anyway Dorwards an Arse

Andrew Fairlie Gleneagles

With reference to Mr Fairlies comments in the PA this week, yes I'm sure that there are indeed some very good restaurants in Perthshire in the mid market and high end range. Unfortunately, the majority of Perthshire residents don't earn the sort of income that would enable them to frequent these establishments. Gleneagles is for the rich and famous but for the rest of us there's the 'real Perthshire'.

Gleneagles or the real Perthshire - they may as well be on different planets!

You are once again completely missing the point we are trying to make here and that is - why are so many businesses going under or struggling in this area?

Encouraging new businesses and talented people to the area will create better job opportunities, bring more money into the area and local hotels and restaurants will thrive. Tourism for most hotels is seasonal, new businesses would help fill local hotels and restaurants all year round.

Please do try and work it out!

Article in the Perthshire Advertiser Friday 7th Oct.

Mr Andrew Arbuckle MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife admits that he got it wrong with regard to the G8 in thinking that it would give tourism a boost. Figures for Perthshire now show that visitor numbers have been down this year.

Wonderful quote from Mr Arbuckle: 'full marks go to the tourist industry for promoting and elegantly illustrating the plusses of Perthshire to those whose first introduction to the area often comes from a website'

Oh dear....