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Tuesday, May 01, 2007
 
Helping with Enquiries

Huttonian hopes it won't be held against him for helping the Tories. A posse of two called this morning at the Old Manse to ask if I could assist them on Polling Day in Hutton. They are fearful that their free standing poster for placing out side Hutton Village Hall, the Polling station, might be nicked if it is not put away safely once Polls are closed. I explained that I thought it would be safe in crime free Hutton but to be on the safe said I would put it in an outhouse and they could collect it at their leisure. The place in question would be unlocked as usual: for two reasons:
(a) Crime free Hutton and (b) Ain't no lock. When asked if this would be safe I referred the Honorary Gentleman to the answer I had given a few moments before.

I wonder why they asked me and not dwellings nearer the Polling Station. Am I an obvious Tory?* Or is it because we have a big house.?

Will any other party ask for storage facilities? 40 hours to go until Polls open.

Hurry

(* This is rhetorical question: Blogg-ed)
 
Comments:
ebThe nice Mr Lamont himself came to our door. The first parliamentary candidate to do so these hustings. He told me that he had knocked on 500 doors. We have no knocker so nothing daunted he rang the bell.Apparently soft Liberals are deserting to SNP and the harder ones to the Tories. He reckons that Mr Robson may be in for a surprise.
 
Having heard (by chance) Mr Lamont this morning on BBC Radio Scotland (live from Kelso) saying he wanted to give SBC more control over how it spends the budget filled me with more than a little apprehension given their inability to fix holes in the road, name streets and put legally enforceable speed limit signs up outside schools.

I can't say the other candidates fill me with any excitement either though. I shall still be attending the polling station though.
 
As soon as a candidate says the sitting MSP/MP will be in for a surprise you know he won't.

SBC in its present set up has been a disaster. Problems of education, road repairs is a misnomer, and the wretched railway! John Lamont should concentrate on his brief, not interfere in local issues.
 
Mind you some one needs to. I don't mind who fills a pothole in as long as it gets done. WE need a Margaret McThatcher in these parts not a bunch of desk bound buttock flat-enners
 
Sadly I don't think any changes made to the elected members will quickly cure the systemic cronyism and outright amateurism evident within the unelected desk jockeys in St. Boswell's.

As I said before - the level of ineptitude displayed at all times I've contacted SBC for anything far surpasses anything I've experienced anywhere else in public service. Sadly it's not a positive comparison.

I see small schools closed all over the region, council procurement policies that appear to favour the cheapest over the best value (note to those doing the procurement: there is a big difference between "cheap" and "inexpensive", examination of the entries in a good dictionary should help you out in understanding that - along with common sense, if available), community pitted against community in a kind of parochial civil war for funds - if community A gets, communities B, C & D automatically lose out as a result, The local plan is published and ignored in many communities. I see a speed limit sign in one direction for a school (great) but in the other nothing - so traffic going one way is subject to a 20mph limit, the other way 30. Half-arsed at best.

I have a recycling collection service that takes about half of my recycling - if I want to go to a municipal refuse tip, it's substantially closer to go to either of two in a neighbouring authority. I hear another has opened in Duns, but I'm yet to see any evidence of where in Duns it is - Duns isn't a large place, but large enough to lose a recycling centre in.

Tomorrow I'll be going to the polling station - which is "Rodger Hall, Coldstream" (assuming it's a building and not a person) - I defy anyone unfamiliar with the area to find it armed with that address information alone. Rodger Hall is the building that houses the Library for the uninitiated - there is not a single sign of any description on the building alluding to that fact. No signs pointing towards it either - again half-arsed. Need I mention the owner and operator of the edifice in question is none other than our beloved Scottish Borders Council?
 
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