Haste Ye to the Hustings.Its getting on for election time*-Scottish Parliament and local councils. Trees are being torn down in the Amazon and
Peebleshire to produce the electioneering 'literature' with which we are now being bombarded. Today's offering is 'Border News' a puff for the Lib
Dems, the sitting
MSP for
Roxburgh and
Berwickshire,
Euan Robson, is of that ilk and our local, local councillor Big Jim Conundrum, is not-being a true blue Tory. But under the new preference vote system and bigger constituencies for the Scottish Borders Council 'East
Berwickshire' will return three councillors, one of whom, presumably will be an ex-
officio member of the Hutton and Paxton
Community Council. Robson has done us well but in many ways the
SBC councillor is more important to us for local interests-especially the vexed issue of planning. Here Big Jim Conundrum-Poisoned-Chalice Esq has been a disaster and it must surely be in the local interest to keep him out of 'office'. So no 'x' for him please. So forget the Tories.
I know nothing about the Lib Dem candidate for EB. He is called David Raw. I suppose he is worth a vote as a link to the excellent Robson but let us suspend judgement and hope he is not a farmer/landowner for all the reasons so tediously familiar to
bloggees. I have not seen the
SNP list-the local parliamentary candidate is from this part of the
Merse and I have been told she may be standing as the local councillor as well. If so lets keep her out as well. The
SNP are irrelevant to this part of Scotland (13% of the vote last time around) and if there is a
possibility she might be the ex-
officio H&
PCC person-then that is an extra danger. Local farmers, their families and local issues don't mix well-the conflict of interest is just too great for comfort. Think back to the days of the lairds wife-think '
Knowe's Close' and think again. But if Mrs O is just destined for greatness in the
rarefied atmosphere of
Embra, good luck to her. She has a drive and enthusiasm conceivably productive at the national level. But around here? No thank you ma'am. Another x spared. More good candidates please and who else will stand up for a Crematorium in the Borders? Apart from the Lib
Dems that is.
More pontifications to follow.
If I am spared
* May ,actually. Blog-ed.
