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Mev Brown does it againA few weeks ago I considered the future of NHSFirst, the party led by Mev Brown. Brown was the Tory candidate in Edinburgh East in the 2005 Westminster Election, an Independent in the Livingston By-Election a few months later, the UKIP candidate in Edinburgh Council's Murrayfield By-Election a few months after that, and the NHSFirst candidate in the Moray By-Election following that. Now it transpires that in Central Scotland, NHSFirst will stand on a joint ticket with Scottish Voice, the Party Political equivalent of Seinfeld (the show about nothing).
Meanwhile, while we're on the subject, Julie McAnulty revealed on my other blog, Scotland Decides, that she won't be standing on the Central Scotland Regional List after all: she'll be concentrating on the Constituency Vote in Coatbridge & Chryston. Also, the BBC report that retiring surgeon David Smith will be standing as an Independent health campaigner in Glasgow Cathcart. Oh, and I haven't heard what, if anything, Jean Turner thinks of NHSFirst.
Now, think about this: the independent health campaigners include Jean Turner, a former GP, Julie McAnulty, who I'm pretty sure is in effect a carer for her parents, and David Smith, a retiring surgeon. The NHSFirst candidate include a serial candidate and outgoing Labour member of Glasgow City Council Gaille McCann, and they now have backing from a former Tory donor. In short, NHSFirst is attracting political types, while those who have a link to health and/or the NHS stay as independents. What does that tell you?
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