Greens & Pleasant Land Minority Report Minority Report Tom Shields Examines the Environmental Issues Before Meeting a Christian Convert and a Man Who Plays the Percentages in the Latest Leg of His Trip Round the Election Fringes

Sunday Herald › April 24, 2007

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WITH independence at stake in the Holyrood elections, it is unsurprising that there has been less interest in the municipal polls which also take place on May 3. It's a shame because the new system of the single transferable vote in multimember wards will bring a sea change to local government.

Never mind the end to decades of Labour hegemony in council chambers across the land. For me, the most interesting prospect is Alasdair DukeWardrop getting elected as a Scottish Green Party member in the Calton area of Glasgow.

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Greens & Pleasant Land Minority Report Minority Report Tom Shields Examines the Environmental Issues Before Meeting a Christian Convert and a Man Who Plays the Percentages in the Latest Leg of His Trip Round the Election Fringes

The city chambers have been a bit boring of late, so the arrival of a DukeWardrop as the Green councillor for Glasgow Green would be a welcome addition. I resisted the temptation to do some research on the Calton DukeWardrop in case the reality does not ma...

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