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Liberal Democrat Tim McKay, who is standing against Alistair Darling in the Edinburgh South West ward, has flown off for a holiday in Australia during the election campaign.

I live in this constituency and I'll definitely not be voting Lib Dem now.

Johnstons

This is typical of Lib Dems. I live in Edinburgh South and the candidate is claiming to be this, that and the next thing, when it is local people that have delivered real change. The only thing I know about him is what I have read in this paper and it would seem he gave up the council (representing people) in 2007 to "run for higher office". I think that sums them up. You are elected to help people, not further your career.

I LOVE EDINBURGH

He is to be roundly commended for this. I don't vote, but I would vote for him if I lived in that constituency. I wish all politicians would eff off to Oz.

reincarnated

This bloke went on holiday before the election was announced. He's probably had it arranged for a while. Now some moaning minnies are bleating about it when there are far more important issues to worry about.

digestive biscuits V

I think even the dogs in the street reckoned the general election would occur on 6 May, 2010, with campaigning in April. If he thought he was a serious contender for the seat, he would have asked his relatives to choose a date between the declaration of the poll and the opening of the new parliament. If he wanted to attend the christening in Australia he should have stood down as the candidate and allowed another Lib Dem to stand.

Huntly loon

A feature on the care of dementia patients at a city hospital sparked a debate about solutions to the problem.

CCTV in every room within every hospital ward, including the staff areas and linked to every patient's call buzzers is the answer, all recorded on hard disk and saved for a month or two at a time. The cost for this type of system to install say ten cameras within an average ward would be around only 5,000. This would enable the evidence required to sack and/or prosecute the people who are only in their job for as easy a life as possible. The bad apples abuse an avenue open to them to vent their frustrations and anger on the patients who are meant to be under their care. The bad people are very cunning when neglecting or abusing the patients and know there is nothing that can be done about it because of the lack of evidence. Sacked and on an abuse register is the only way we can weed them out.

Unimportant

What baffles me is why they go into the care industry if they don't care?

totally indecent

I think giving ward managers more time to check on the standards of care would be a more effective approach than having CCTV cameras, which should only be called upon once something actually went wrong. As it stands, there are a lot of areas in nursing where you are damned if you do and damned if you don't. There is another issue with cameras though, and in the rush to condemn the system people are forgetting that patients have rights. If I was dying I wouldn't want a digital record of my final indignities.

Filled Rolls