Please to be Upstanding

That great local organ the Berwickshire is getting into the spirit of the hustings via its letter columns-usually the first resort of the verbosely incontinent;

SIR, - So the truth is out.The most vociferous supporter of wind farms, Councillor John Elliot of Duns, has shares in a company that provides parts for wind turbines, the Spectris Group. (Berwickshire News, Thursday, March 1).Wind turbines he says are like “moving sculptures”. But then he would say that wouldn’t he.It is also rumoured that he is considering whether to stand down at the next elections. As an honourable man I cannot see that he really has much choice.Perhaps more to the point is the sour taste that such events leave in the minds of the electorate at large.Can there be any wonder that so many people are often so deeply concerned about the nature of decisions made in their name and which can affect their lives so profoundly.

Proper Bo!

And this is exactly what bothers many of us about local government in Eastern Berwickshire. The temptation for too many sticky fingers in too many pies and too little public accountability. Now lets see some letters about local councillors with positions of responsibility on powerful planning committees dreaming of concreting broad acres and encouraging fellow landowners to do the same. so as to establish useful precedents for their own ambitions. There used to be an idea that local councillors sought office to protect and further the interests of the communities they represented. Public service. In two words.

Do you know any of them?

We should be told

And we can vote them in again.

(Even if they are Tories, or even, istaaf Allah*, SNP)

*Lets keep Islamic phraseology out of this-blog-ed.

Labels: Hustings, Planning

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