Council Considers Poster Ban

Thursday sees the first proper meeting of the whole Council since the Holyrood elections. One issue that is sure to cause raised eyebrows is the  proposal by Tory Gordon Buchan to ban the practice of political parties erecting posters on lampposts. 

All parties are allowed to put these up on the Saturday before polling (which is always a Thursday in the UK). At midnight squads of posters from each of the parties  scuttle around the city trying to get theirs above everyone elses. Many are unconvinced at the efficacy of it all and  with  party organisations being over stretched  far too often parties find their key activists up a ladder rather than getting round the doors.

The burden falls disproportionately on those of us who are tall for obvious reasons. I declare an interest here.

  Norman Work  - The Cuddly Face of Nationalism

That being said my Vice Convener Norman Work is not the tallest of men. Colin Keir, newly elected MSP for Western Edinburgh, tells the story that Norman  was putting posters up when the ladder Colin was supposed to be holding slipped away from under Norm leaving him wrapped round the lamppost "like a Koala"! Where was Colin? Rolling around on the grass 10 yards away crying with laughter!