Tory Revival Postponed

Because of bloody nosed ness I missed out on last week's Berwickshire which was subsequently used by the wife for fire lighting. So I did not hear the news of the (last) week until just now-that our sitting Councillor Big Jim Conundrum Fullarton is, after all, on the Tory list for May's local elections. So he seems to have abandoned the idea of taking is Ten Grand golden farewell and relaxing amongst the seed potatoes. A pity. I voted for him at the last election-the alternative-SNP was not a compelling option. To say he has served us well is not an accurate description and I had rather hoped he might gracefully fade away and get some one intelligent, coherent and with no personal axe to grind in the development field (no pun intended) One of his fellow councillors described him as more of a representative of the Scottish Farmers Union than of his constituency and his position as Depute Chair of the Berwickshire Area Committee Planning Sub-committee worried some of us given the record of some local farmers seeking to diversify from corn to concrete., or from Barley to Building. So Huttonian's advice is-if you are thinking of voting for him. Think.

Mind you with the transferable vote electoral system in a multi seat constituency it is difficult enough to understand how vote-never mind for whom. At least that seemed to be the message from Big Jim himself when he tried to explain it recently; it seemed to boil down to: if you don't want someone to get one of the three Eastern Berwickshire seats you voted for that person and that vote would then taken away and given to the candidate of your choice. Gibberish? Probably. But if enough people believe it Big Jim may well

Top the poll.


Be careful  ¶ 10:49 AM