‘More like Just a Minute than University Challenge’ was how chair Carol Nimmo proposed Wednesday’s hustings for the City Centre ward should proceed. She presumably wanted candidates to avoid hesitation, repetition, or deviation and warned any who weren't succinct that they faced being dinged by the merciless Spurtle Bell.
The Cockburn Association, Edinburgh’s oldest heritage watchdog, has launched a Manifesto for the City in advance of next month’s Local Government Elections. You can read it in full HERE.
The 4-page document stresses a need to rebuild trust between citizens and elected representatives.
It calls for:
Edinburgh Council has published the final list of candidates standing in the Local Government Elections on 5 May.
For Spurtleshire, they are as follows.
Scottish Green Party - BANDEL, Jule
Scottish Conservative and Unionist - HERRING, Stuart
Scottish Family Party: Pro-Family, Pro-Marriage, Pro-Life - HOLDEN, Phil
Scottish Libertarian Party - LAIRD, Tam
Independent - MCNAMARA, Stephen
Scottish Conservative and Unionist - MITCHELL, Max
Spurtle’s hustings for the Edinburgh Northern & Leith constituency took place last night, with numbers attending the Zoom event never dropping below 72 (including 6 organisers) and probably exceeding that on shared devices.