Markinch Cries "Let What Train Take the Strain?"

One of Liberal Democrat candidate Harry Wills' campaigns in the Glenrothes by election has been about the unfair fares that the people of Fife face on the train. They pay greater fares that the people of Perth pay to get to Edinburgh for example.

However, the people of Markinch now face greater unfairness as their 9:04 train into Edinburgh looks set to disappear off the winter timetable. This would leave a 98 minute gap between trains at 8.31am and 10.09am a busy commuting time of the morning. With a greater number of people working flexible hours the removal of a 9:04 service may well disadvantage parents who drop their children to school before catching the 9:04 catching a later or earlier train may not be convenient to everyone.

If the removal of this service is made it looks set to see an increase of road usage to make up for its loss. Not a great move to the environment and climate change.

Gunpowder, Treason or Plot

Well my post yesterday about plot, some would say Tory treason to the Union has certainly lit the touchpaper on a gunpowder keg prior to events on the 6th of November in Glenrothes.

The fact that a normally confident Scottish Tory Boy starts of the comments thread in the vain hope that it was rumour rather than truth. Then the CyberNats got going with a whole range of deflection and distraction tactics and quite plan stupid comments:

"Voting for Harry Wills will not get him elected "

Of course that depends just how many people do vote for Harry Wills and is a ridiculous statement for anyone to make as only voting for somebody could get them elected.

Of course someone was so clearly flustered that despite our candidate being named in the piece they mixed him up with the Tory, not once but twice before later saying that if the Tories were becoming the Scottish Conservative and Nationalist party they were being pragmatic and proactive but failed to mentioned two faced, a farce and not standing for what they believe in.

One even said the Lib Dems should distance themselves from Labour, while at the same time happily sidling up to the Tories (what double standards), which we clearly have been with our recent tax proposals, our interventions and warning months ago of impending financial issues and a clarity in how to handle it. Then decided to turn his attention to voting records of which only one candidate has one. As for the parties the Tories side with Labour a lot of the time in Westminster and the SNP most of the time in Holyrood, clearly unsure which way they'll turn of for that matter how a Nat would turn at Westminster, if elected.

However, Jess the Dog did come up with one interesting statement that needs investigating further:

"Seems to me that the only beneficiary of such a pact would be the Conservatives,
who could claim to be participants in a Machiavellian ploy rather than simply
no-hopers in Glenrothes."

Well what of the benefits for the newly rebranded Scottish Conservative and Nationalist Party what would they gain from such whispering in Westminster between Angus Robertson and David Mundell. Especially as they didn't deem it necessary for this plot to take place in the vaults of the Palace. Jeff went so far as to say it was naivety of me with almost 20 more years of political activism than him to think that with 4 weeks to go and such revelations that this was now anything other than a 2 horse race. Sorry Jeff but I have seen elections turn on less, with less time available than this in that time, far from naivety I call that knowledge of what can be achieved.

It is all just a matter of a few things. What is at the heart of such an agreement between 'such strange bedfellowes'? What lies beneath this unlikely pact? Plus getting that message out to the people who matter namely the voters who decide the fate of the Glenrothes seat in the Houses of Parliament.

Therein lies a mystery, or does it....

It may well be that like some sort of Martin Bell-like figure Harry Wills comes through as a candidate with his own clear (party) platform not shrouded in murk and intrigue of politicking and plot.

Nat-Tory Pact for Glenrothes

Vote Nat turn Blue.

Andrew Reeves has heard gossip* from the Palace of Westminster that for the Glenrothes by election there are really only three parties in it, Labour, the Lib Dem and the Scottish Conservative and Nationalist Party.

What? You haven't heard of the last one?

Well apparently in the Halls of Westminster, where the winner on November 6th will eventually take up his** seat, Angus Robertson MP and David Mundell MP, leaders of the SNP and Scottish Tory groups of MPs, were overheard plotting how they will work together to ensure an Labour defeat in the Glenrothes By-Election.

So the people of the Glenrothes, Star, Newcastle, Cardenden, Glenrothes, Leslie, Leven, Wemyss, Markinch, Methil, Thornton, Buckhaven, Kennoway or Auchterderran and all the other parts of the Glenrothes constituency had better beware how they vote. A Nat vote will be as good a giving themselves a Tory and surely like all Scots the people in Glenrothes will remember just what that meant in the 80s and 90s under Thatcher and Major.

Therefore the people of Glenrothes who have been telling me that they cannae vote Labour and would nae vote Tory are left with only one alternative if they really don't want to do either, they really have to vote for Harry Wills as the only alternative to the disasters that they have faced since 1979.

*And knowing Andrew he wouldn't have blogged this without verifying his source.

**Yes sadly none of the serious contenders is female.