By Professor John Robertson
From the Dundee Courier, yesterday:
Labour candidate in Angus is councillor for city over 500 miles away.
A councillor from Canterbury in England has been selected as Labour’s candidate for Angus and Perthshire Glens, it can be revealed.
Elizabeth Carr-Ellis is a Labour councillor for St Stephen’s in Canterbury – over 500 miles from Angus in the South East of England.
But the party has given her its backing to standing for election in the newly formed Westminster constituency.
Ms Carr-Ellis describes herself as a “Geordie journalist” who has lived around the UK and abroad.
It is not known whether she intends to live in the constituency during the General Election campaign, or whether she would resign her council role if elected.
Your geography is not good? Here’s a picture:
What is the background to this strangeness?
From the National in March 2024:
SCOTTISH Labour have been branded an “embarrassment” after reports that the party has not even selected a candidate in the six Westminster seats won by the Tories at the last General Election.
The SNP said that Keir Starmer’s party “can’t credibly pretend” to be aiming to oust the Conservatives if they have not even chosen candidates to run against them.
Kind of makes you wonder if even Scottish Labour members fancy Starmer’s ‘change?’
Finally, and not satire though you might think it is, Carr-Ellis is Deputy Chief Sub-Editor Hello! Magazine!
What does that do?
This:
Talking-up Scotland 'Albatraz' 
TBF selecting a candidate from Canterbury for a Scottish seat is somewhat a “Change”…….as Labour have promised would be the case…..given that currently they have not really explained fully how they, as the next UK government, will be implementing “Change”….however I feel in doing this it proves that Labour as a party will never really “Change”……here’s hoping more people in Scotland decide to also not “Change” their votes to Labour in the next GE….
Remember the quote on “Change”….”The more things change the more they stay the same”…..which for Labour , as a quote, is so so very apt.
NMRN
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And there was Dougie Alexander bantering with Michael Shanks about train travel to Scotland.
paraphrase MS – West Coast Avanti are a sxxx service.
DA – I’m lucky,” I can leave MY HOME in London and be in Dunbar in 4 hours” on the great East Coast line!!.
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forgot to sign off DottieB
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Desperation. Lack of candidates.
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Try going from the central belt to the North of Scotland. Takes twice as long. HS2 a waste of £Billions. Instead of improving journey times throughout Britain. Resulting in less flights. All roads lead to London centralisation and congestion.
Thatcher centralised transport around London. Congestion. Not going anywhere. Closed ports around the UK. 26 miles of Tilbury Docks. Canary Wharf bankers who fund the Tory Party.
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Perhaps, given the background, they selected her to show willing, but realise that WM might be unwinnable.
And, of course, being Scottish, “no great loss if she falls”.
Because she isn’t local(!) no face is lost either by her with those who elected her to the Council or the Labradors.
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As Sarwar says time for a change……..snigger
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aye the candidate is a joke, but what about the new constituency, Angus and the Perthshire Glens, Montrose, Brechin and Forfar in with west Perthshire, what a farce, jiggery pokery at it’s GerryMandering finest.
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it’s an absolute joke!
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