Absentees from the public gallery

I posted yesterday about the council meeting and how it was quite well attended by the press for a change.

We also had a few members of the public, including some of the Congleton parking campaign who delivered a very well constructed speech and ex-councillor Ken Edwards who essentially wanted to speak about the next item of the agenda. He's obviously missing being a Councillor.

But the people who were noticeably absent in my view were the Prospective Parliamentary Candidates (PPC's). In Macclesfield now we have PPC's from all parties, and yet none of them were there. I've always understood why standing Parliamentarians weren't there, because they have a job to do in London.

But for those people who want to do the job they should be there - especially if they're going to tell us how they're going to put Macclesfield First. Perhaps this proves what their priorities really are?