Residency rant

Published 9 Jun 2010 09:30

Great play was being made by the two Labour correspondants, McLeod and Spencer, in the letters page of May 26, about our new MP, Gemma Doyle, being a local resident.

It was my understanding that while Ms Doyle's family was resident in Dumbarton she herself was working in London prior to being chosen for High Office, so I fail to see how she could be a local resident of West Dunbartonshire - but then perhaps she commuted each day.

Perhaps her Labour supporters, who place so much importance in our Parliamentary elected representatives living in the constituency, will now be calling for the resignation of Des McNulty MSP.

Des was not resident in the Clydebank and Milngavie constituency when he stood for election as a member of the Scottish Parliament in 1999 and he has never made any attempt to move here during the 11 years he has been our MSP. Come to think of it, he never made any attempt to move to Clydebank during the six years he was the Strathclyde Regional councillor for Clydebank North.

I would not like to be in Des McNulty's shoes when his erstwhile friends William McLeod and Alison Spencer get started on him, better start looking at the property pages Des before next year's Holyrood elections.

Ronald McDonald, Whitecrook

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