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"I'm sincerely grateful to Dr Fawcett for agreeing to visit Plantation during her campaign to win a seat on Highland Council in May, especially as the results of last years by-election strongly suggest that she is all-but-certain to take one of the four seats contested by only five candidates, anyway - so she's unlikely to need to campaign very hard. To her great credit it took her barely four hours to agree to visit Plantation - this very week, indeed: mid-morning Friday [22nd April], eight days after our big three-skip spring-clean here, which was a great success. All credit to the revived community associaton [the 'PCA'] about that, by the way."
Mr Drayton also took the opportunity to mock and deride two other Ward 21 candidates, Mr Angus MacDonald and Dr Kate Willis for "flip-flopping" on pledges to visit 'The Planny', as Plantation is affectionately known by its residents. "Mr MacDonald's excuse was frankly laughable - but at least he provided one: I got crickets from the likes of Willis." Dr Willis's reason for cancelling last Friday's scheduled visit to Plantation at a day's notice remains unexplained and emails from this journalist have been ignored despite earlier emails being answered promptly. Mr MacDonald, a novelist as well as an entrepreneur, initially justfied his change of mind by explaining that Mr Drayton's habit of occasionally using very strong sexual swear-words to underline his remarks "appals" him, something Mr Drayton was quick to ridicule as almost bizarrely disproportionate: "let's get this straight, shall we? An in all likelihood lab-grown virus slaughters millions, [Mark] Zuckerberg censors the fact for months, but instead Angus is 'appalled' by the language I use to denounce him? Really?"
Noting that Dr Fawcett's visit happens to co-incide with 2022's 'Earth Day', Mr Drayton drew a sharp contrast between the "crazy views" of the "dogmatic" Dr Willis and the "receptive" tone adopted by Dr Fawcett, who "apparently 'can’t wait to meet folk and answer their questions, hear their stories and try to help if I can'," he said. "It's interesting, too, that Dr Fawcett thinks that 'every day frankly should be Earth Day,' something Dr Willis surely also believes but, hey kids, look who's just talking the talk and who's walking the walk (or will be on Friday)?" Mr Drayton has previously described Dr Willis as "dense" and Mr MacDonald as "hopelessly naive - totally out of his depth, frankly. He shows not the least understanding of what he's going up against. The Nessiemafiosi are just going to run rings round him. I don't know Mr [Thomas] MacLennan from Adam, actually - he was before my time - but he's got to be a far, far better bet: look at the stress his flyer puts on local spending, local decision making, accountability, on his being 'experienced and determined.' Those are the words of a guy with scars on his back. I really hope I hear from him soon: on the face of it he sounds like my kind of guy, but he's got one hell of a mountain to climb electorally, unfortunately."
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