The current Home Secretary is proposing to proscribe human rights pressure group, Palestine Action, and declare them terrorists. There will be a vote in Parliament today, Monday 30 June 2025, to that effect. This means that all those associated with
Please take note of Scottish Borders Council and Police Scotland’s warnings to Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk residents to stay at home and indoors tomorrow, Friday 24 January 2025, and please do not try to go out, especially not to drive.
A quick update that I’ve slowly been doing the groundwork for two of my election manifesto pledges, as I promised when campaigning in June: creating a Borders hedgerow economy and improving professional classical music careers in the Borders. On the
I am heartbroken by the scenes of Israel’s systematic sadistic terror rampages throughout Palestine – Gaza, the West Bank, Jerusalem – and Israel’s targeting Palestinians exiled in Lebanon, Syria, Jordan and Egypt and in Europe and USA. Basically, anywhere that
Still delighted and overwhelmed with gratitude to have received 329 votes as a completely new politician in the Scottish Borders. And, as promised, I haven’t sat on my laurels, but have carried on to start setting up the local pilot
Thank you each and every one of the 329 electors in Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk who voted for me, and put their faith in my positive agenda for our region. I am horrendously competitive, so I had two goals at
So fantastic belting about checking in on polling stations, how the staff are getting on, what turn out is, and having yet more glorious conversations with electors in car parks, well outside each curtilage! 🅿️ And chatting to the tourists.
Both really excited for tomorrow and sad that the campaigning is all over bar the shouting. I have loved driving around the constituency so much, loved every single conversation, kept whacking on the hazzards at the side of the road
I’m Ellie Merton, the independent candidate for Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk at this general election tomorrow. My manifesto is centred on a positive set of proposals of creative industries support, piloting ground-breaking restoring nature and biodiversity projects on land and
Thanks to East Berwickshire Churches Together, we enjoyed a fascinating and feisty final hustings with all eight of us candidates in Eyemouth this evening. It was the first and last time all eight of us were in the same debating