Imagine if the place you were born and lived in all your life ceased to exist, and the shore where you’d played as a kid and worked for 30 years as an adult suddenly lost its name. You’d be pretty indignant, right?
Shaking his head and muttering angrily, Anthony Foley is certainly indignant. “It will never happen,” he says, sitting with his mates in Leith Dockers Club. “They will not get away with it, there will be a big fight.”
Yet doing away with the name of Leith is just what “they” — the soulless bureaucrats of an official body named Boundaries Scotland — are proposing. A plan to reorganise electoral boundaries for the Scottish parliament envisages the end of the Edinburgh Northern & Leith
