The Official SaveLochLomond/Stop Flamingo Land

Campaign to stop Flamingo Land. Our Land Our Loch!

[The Official SaveLochLomond/Stop Flamingo Land @SaveLoch]

For those following our campaign please share and or donate to help bring justice to our board member fighting to #SaveLochLomond #NoFlamingoLand #LochLomond #FlaminGo #OurLandOurLoch
#Scotland #BonnieBanks #FreeSpeech

[KamperVan 🚐 Kady 🐾🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🌸✊#HoldTheLine @navynotnuclear]

Please share folks … Sid Perrie dedicated local advocate and fighting to hold public authorities accountable for silencing his questions about the management of the Flamingo Land planning application. #SaveLochLomond #LochLomond #FlamingoLand https://t.co/qOqYupTHrd

[Grouse Beater @Grouse_Beater]

AINT THAT THE TRUTH

[Rory Geoghegan @rorygeo]

“Man who threw his girlfriend from the fourth floor of a tower block has been jailed for five years.”

Five years for throwing an 18-year-old woman from the fourth floor of a tower block - causing a collapsed lung and fractures to her pelvis, spine and ribs.

Joke of a sentence!

[The Official SaveLochLomond/Stop Flamingo Land @SaveLoch]

@Ross_Greer https://t.co/06ANMqmU3d

[The Official SaveLochLomond/Stop Flamingo Land @SaveLoch]

@heraldscotland https://t.co/06ANMqmU3d

[Nick Oz Oztrazine @oztrazine]

@SaveLoch @LochSave A new banner rework for the new fight...... again. Sigh. #savelochlomond

[AFFtheClyde @AFFtheClyde]

Lochgoilhead Community Council - Clyde Coastal Community Councils - Marine Planning & Fish Farming meeting. Monday 19 January 7-9pm at Lochgolihead Village Hall and via Zoom (meeting ID: 982 7712 2175 - Passcode: 914252).

[The Official SaveLochLomond/Stop Flamingo Land @SaveLoch]

@kiwiasfi B12, Vit D, nice steaks, sunshine and exercise.

[Christophe Dorigné-Thomson @thomsonchris]

This is a major post coming from India accurately describing Scotland being an English colony against the opinion of collaborators with the English colonial regime. Scotland's languages were suppressed by the English colonial regime with terrible crimes just like in every English colony. Yes Scotland is a colony of England. Scotland is a colony, illegally annexed by England. Liberation Scotland and Professor Robert Black, leading Scots law Professor who also dealt with the Lockerbie trials, have proved it already and are at the UN for decolonisation. A historic conference was organised on 18 September at the UN in Geneva during the 60th UN Human Rights Council. The UN independent expert former Greek foreign minister George Katrougalos concluded the event. Scotland's territorial alienation is real. Yes Scotland is an English colony. @LiberationScot @SSalyers2 @PAlanMcMahon @SymbolStones

[Grouse Beater @Grouse_Beater]

Elspeth King (1949 - 2025)

Elspeth King, who has died aged 76, changed the course of Scottish museum practice by insisting that everyday lives of working people deserved the same care and attention as fine art or art relics.

As curator of the People’s Palace museum in Glasgow from 1974 to 1990, she reshaped a fading municipal institution into a living record of the city’s social history, showing that museums could speak in the voices of the communities they served.

When King arrived at the People’s Palace, the museum’s purpose had drifted. Founded in 1898 as a museum for the citizens of Glasgow’s East End, it had by the 1970s become a place of dusty cases and dwindling visitors.

King brought new energy and a conviction that the city’s own people – its shipbuilders, factory workers, musicians and market traders – should be at the centre of its story.

Over 16 years, she curated 40 exhibitions, many developed directly with local groups. Scotland 'Sober and Free' (1979), marking the 150th anniversary of the temperance movement, drew record audiences; another, in collaboration with her colleague and partner Michael Donnelly, assistant curator at the museum and an expert in Scottish stained glass of the 19th and early 20th centuries, celebrated Glasgow’s stained-glass tradition.

The 1981 show advanced research into the city’s pivotal role in stained-glass manufacture and, through Donnelly’s lead, helped to rescue and preserve threatened works, as well as creating a significant permanent collection at the museum.

King’s most controversial early success involved the comedian Billy Connolly’s “banana boots”, designed by the pop artist Edmund Smith, and which she included in one of her first exhibitions. Visitors and critics protested that Connolly’s rough language and reputation had no place in a museum; King argued that the boots captured Glasgow’s irreverent spirit. They went on to become part of the Palace’s permanent collection, and one of its best known exhibits.

She made her cat, Smudge, the museum’s official “rodent catcher” in 1979, and a member of the GMB – a small act that summed up her blend of wit and social conscience.

King was also unafraid to take a political stance. In the late 70s she led opposition to a motorway project that threatened to demolish the People’s Palace. To strengthen the museum’s case, she enlisted the then little known artist Alasdair Gray to document the life of the city. His resulting 'Continuous Glasgow Show' (1978), a sequence of more than 30 illustrative paintings, gave the museum fresh life and arguably saved it from closure. The friendship between King and Gray endured until his death in 2019.

The People’s Palace won European Museum of the Year in 1981 and British Museum of the Year in 1983. Though her outspoken defence of community-based culture often brought her into conflict with Glasgow city council she never lost the respect of her peers.

In 1990 she left the museum, having been passed over for promotion as keeper of Glasgow’s social history, a position that would have run across several museums, including the People’s Palace.

She became director of the Dunfermline Heritage Trust, where she oversaw the restoration of Abbot House, transforming it into a heritage centre rooted in local history.

Born in Lochore, Fife, into a working-class community, King developed an early appreciation for uncovering overlooked histories. The daughter of a miner, William King, and his wife, Christina (nee Cowie), she attended Beath high school in Cowdenbeath before studying medieval history at the University of St Andrews, gaining a post-graduate degree in museum studies at Leicester University.

In 2005, she was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Stirling in recognition of her contributions to Scottish museums and the promotion of Scottish history and culture.

[The Official SaveLochLomond/Stop Flamingo Land @SaveLoch]

@CSMFHT Antonius Pius.

[The Official SaveLochLomond/Stop Flamingo Land @SaveLoch]

@Nick_Kempe Since when was questioning authority & its decisions a punishable offence for those elected by the public to represent them? It appears that both @lomondtrossachs and @GlasgowCC had something they did not want reaching public ears therefore they needed to silence Perrie & Higgins

[tenaciousV @tenaciousV56]

Navy’s legal threats in bid to keep nuclear pollution secret exposed https://t.co/pLeavLILNG

[James Campbell @J4m35c4mpb3ll]

Stunning! 🤩

[The Official SaveLochLomond/Stop Flamingo Land @SaveLoch]

@Grouse_Beater @kmckenna63 @heraldscotland @ramblersscot @MairiMcAllan @JohnSwinney @MairiGougeon @jackiebmsp @mickbrick54 @Scotpol1314 @WingsScotland @DailyMail @dailyrecord @LennoxHerald @helensburghadv @LochsidePress Thank you ❤️

[The Official SaveLochLomond/Stop Flamingo Land @SaveLoch]

@kmckenna63 @heraldscotland @ramblersscot @MairiMcAllan @JohnSwinney @MairiGougeon @jackiebmsp @mickbrick54 @Scotpol1314 @Grouse_Beater @WingsScotland @DailyMail @dailyrecord @LennoxHerald @helensburghadv @LochsidePress #LochLomond #Scotland

[The Official SaveLochLomond/Stop Flamingo Land @SaveLoch]

One man and his dog to Save Loch Lomond! Please read the blog from Parkswatch on the attempts by Loch Lomond & The Trossachs National Park Authority to silence the concerns of the locally elected Balloch board member Sid Perrie.

Available here -

https://t.co/HCKZo94GL7

[The Official SaveLochLomond/Stop Flamingo Land @SaveLoch]

Sid Perrie fights on to bring truth and transparency to the board @lomondtrossachs

https://t.co/s4KJ0Ti9h9

[The Official SaveLochLomond/Stop Flamingo Land @SaveLoch]

Today’s article in the @heraldscotland Glsgw Labour Cllr Fiona Higgins draws many parallels with Sid Perrie’s ongoing battle with @lomondtrossachs and the standards commission… a further, shocking representation of the assault on free speech and democracy in Scotland.

[The Official SaveLochLomond/Stop Flamingo Land @SaveLoch]

One man and his dog fight to Save Loch Lomond

https://t.co/XgUaLAjInF

[The Official SaveLochLomond/Stop Flamingo Land @SaveLoch]

One man and his dog to Save Loch Lomond! Please read the blog from Parkswatch on the attempts by Loch Lomond & The Trossachs National Park Authority to silence the concerns of the locally elected Balloch board member Sid Perrie.

Available here -

https://t.co/HCKZo94GL7