An astonishing attack on current and past councillors in a leaflet I received today, particularly regarding Conservative Councillor Carl Nelson who has served this area for some 25 years.
The leaflet says that “the North Kincardine area takes in the country settlements of Blairs, Banchory Devenick, Cookney, Maryculter, Muchalls and Netherley and it is over 30 years since they have had representation by a councillor who knows where these localities are.”
Well, I can’t speak for other councillors, but I certainly know where these places are, and have been to many homes and farms in each locality.
I suppose it’s part and parcel of political knockabout, to have a pop at your opponents.
So what really surprises me is that the attack includes Carl Nelson. Carl is the only one of the current four councillors to have represented this area for nearly that length of time (though the boundaries have varied from time to time). I know without doubt that Carl has been to all of these places over the years. I have seen him at Blairs College, at Cookney War Memorial, in the Corbie Hall at Maryculter, in Lairhillock primary school in Netherley, and in Muchalls … where he lives and goes to church.
And why does this surprise me? Because it comes from the new Conservative candidate.
Jings.