Election

Reflections on the evening 

Charlie Ellis

Summarising two hours of debate i

Speakers and arrangements finalised for Spurtle's Edinburgh North Eastern & Leith hustings

A PARTIAL ACCOUNT

‘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.

Ward 5 - Inverleith

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.