/*\ \*/ /*\ \*/ /*\ \*/ /*\ \*/ /*\ \*/ /*\ \*/ /*\ \*/ /*\ \*/ /*\ \*/ NEWS RELEASE - NEWS RELEASE - NEWS RELEASE /*\ \*/ /*\ \*/ /*\ \*/ /*\ \*/ /*\ \*/ /*\ \*/ /*\ \*/ /*\ \*/ /*\ \*/ NEWS RELEASE Community councillor organises 'hustings-over-email' 13 APRIL 2022 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE At lunchtime on Wednesday 13th April the only member of the Fort William, Inverlochy, and Torlundy Community Council (FITCC) presently to live in Fort William's high-SIMD (Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation) estate, Plantation - Mr Mark Drayton of 6 Morven Place - announced a "high-tech hustings" in advance of May 5th's council elections. Noting somewhat excitedly that he had already received "a few" expressions of interest from constituents both within and outwith Plantation, a beaming Mr Drayton read aloud a (very minimally redacted) email he'd sent that morning to FITCC chair Mr Mark Linfield. > Hi, Mark [Linfield]: it's election time again so you and I might just benefit > from a chat about serving on the community council and political > neutrality etc. I've CC'd [FITCC secretary Patricia Jordan]. > > I am accumulating a list of questions and concerns raised, at my > invitation, from our constituents. Some are directed at specific > candidates but so far none could not be re-phrased so as to address > all five without losing the sense of the original question, and I'm > hopeful that with sufficient linguistic ingenuity that will remain the > case. So I am proposing to at least organise, if not also to conduct > (I'm not sure yet), a sort of emailed-hustings, posting the replies > (or lack thereof) on my SubStack. I will be, just as you would > expect, scrupulously neutral where neutrality is appropriate but, > equally, I will not hesitate to denounce hypocrisy, lack of > intellectual rigour, failure to address the point at issue and, > indeed, whatever other deficiencies the candidate's answers manifest. > > [..] I have BCC'd this to [the candidates], btw - professional courtesy > (whatever Mr MacDonald may think of my adherence to that ethic**). > > [[ **I would submit that every occasion of my infrequent if admittedly > conspicuous deviations from same are chosen with the most exquisite, > almost loving, care - something he will no doubt learn in time ;-) ]] > > With very best regards and let me know if you think a phone call would > be wise or prudent, -Mark D > -- > Mr E M ('Mark') Drayton > Community Councillor (Fort William, Inverlochy & Torlundy) > 6 Morven Pl. PH33 6HY, UK; EddieMDrayton AT GMail DOT com > Or (quicker) text me on +44 (0)7933 760031 (SMS only) > See also https://DraytonMark.SubStack.com/p/latest-news > Mr Drayton explained that, although the questions would be sent via email, replies would be welcomed in textual, audio, or even video form. "I do a bit of tech myself and I know a few people so I'll certainly do my best to upload whatever content I get - so there's no excuse for refusing to be held accountable. After all, if candidates resist being so held at election time, how the hell are they going to behave in office?" Mr Drayton added that his SubStack (at <https://DraytonMark.SubStack.com>) would be the "centre of operations," but also that social network platforms would be "drawn into the circle." Somewhat predictably, Mr Drayton couldn't resist further adding that, ideally, residents should join the <https://NextDoor.co.uk> social-networking platform/app rather than relying on Facebook, say. "I don't trust that censorship-loving [Mark] Zuckerberg bastard any further than I could comfortably excrete him," Mr Drayton has previously explained. As we reported two days ago, Mr Drayton's views regarding Mr Zuckerberg are all-too-well known to readers of his 'Wednesday Headway' SubStack columns, part of his so-called 'Drayton Download': on 8th & 15th September 2021 Mr Drayton re-posted a long article by British-born science journalist Nicholas Wade defending the 'lab-leak' hypothesis of Covid-19's origin; Mr Drayton's brief introduction (at <https://draytonmark.substack.com/p/wed-head-xxv-pt1>) forthrightly condemned Facebook for censoring discussion of the theory. Mr Zuckerberg remained unavailable for comment, possibly because it's still the middle of the bloody night over in Menlo Park. END NOTE FOR EDITORS Further information about this release can be obtained from the following: (for NoseyPARCA DOT WordPress DOT com) Jennifer Seitz (Secretary) that.tiresome.rationalist AT gmail DOT com (as a member of Fort William, Inverlochy, and Torlundy Community Council) Mark Drayton EddieMDrayton AT gmail DOT com (as chair of Fort William, Inverlochy, and Torlundy Community Council) Mark Linfield chair AT fitcc DOT org /*\ \*/ /*\ \*/ /*\ \*/ /*\ \*/ /*\ \*/ /*\ \*/ /*\ \*/ /*\ \*/ /*\ \*/
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