Can cafe culture beat Tesco in Broughton?

Just for the record, I did write a letter to Edinburgh’s Head of Planning to register my concern over Tesco’s plans to open a new store at 8 Picardy Place.  As it happens I wrote it the same day I went to see the Edinburgh premiere of the Age of Stupid.  Make of that what you will.

By the time I posted the letter I didn’t have much hope that it would make any difference.   But I had discovered the power of Twitter.   Greener Leith supportively tweeted my Facebook rage against the mighty Tesco and suddenly  there was a flow of traffic to my blog that I am not at all used to.  Some left comments, a few made  very good points but to  my amazement there was  a depressing number in favour of the superstore colonising our neighbourhood. Or, almost as bad, couldn’t care one way or the other.

I have a new pessimism about the ways and wisdom of humanity since seeing the Age of Stupid and discovering that 60% of the population do not believe climate change is a man-made problem. With the chance of man-made solutions.

But maybe all is not yet lost.  Every time I look at the ‘dashboard’ of my blog I see two stories battling it out for top place.  So far Cafe Culture Thrives in Broughton is still well ahead of  Stop Tesco Destroying Broughton.  What would you make of that?

[See also Crumbs of Comfort]