Professing to help

You may remember the SNP's nutty professor, Chris Harvie MSP, getting into a bit of bother over comments suggesting that Lockerbie, in the south of Scotland, was a "dump" and "Tescotown" in reference to that particular town requiring some form of regeneration.

One of the first (of the many) to criticise the Harvie for his comments was South of Scotland Tory MSP Derek Brownlee, calling it an "appalling insult."

You may also remember that the Tories pushed town regeneration as part of their support for the SNP budget this year.

Interesting then, that the result of a wee survey that the Scottish Tories conducted, asking people to nominate towns across Scotland for regeneration has been announced.

The town with the most nominations for regeneration?

You've guessed it - Lockerbie.

Maybe Harvie had a point after all. Perhaps he might have phrased it better...

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Harvie's havers... part II

What links Lockerbie and Carlisle with Blue Peter and Adolf Hitler?

Yes, you've guessed it...

Professor Chris Harvie MSP.
No, not a professor of foot in mouth studies, as one might think, but of history, apparently.

I wonder if there are those in the Scottish Parliament that think of Prof Harvie as a historical relic, from a time far preceding our own. He certainly dresses like it on occasion.

I also wonder if there have been moves to suggest to the "good" professor that he may wish to cut short his parliamentary career to write another book.

For information, his replacement as an MSP - should he decide to call it a day - would be a lawyer called Roderick Campbell, a previous SNP candidate in Fife North East (2007), North East Fife (2005) and Roxburgh & Berwickshire (2003).

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