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Sian Flynn attended Exeter University and runs a tourist business on the Cornwall coast. She served as a borough councillor in Surrey Heath between 1991 and 1999. She has been a member of West Surrey Health Authority (1993-98), chairman of her local acute hospital trust, and has been a member of her local parole board since 2005. She has also been a member of the board of governors at a local special school.

In other words never worked in the private sector and likes to chat with plants rather than humans

Mr Smith, would you care to expound a little further on what is 'Not Quite Right' about that? Unusually , you have not been very explicit.
Sorry to quibble on this occasion,Peter, but running a tourist business in North Cornwall is, in fact, working 'in the private sector'. You're right until a couple of years ago, of course. That was when Sian decided to mis-use residential Cornish houses for getting money out of tourists instead of providing much needed shelter for full time Cornish residents and then ran her campaign as a Conservative candidate in the 2010 General Election in her plentifully spare time.
Incidentally, AC understands Sian Flynn was invited to encourage Tory MP support for an Early Day Motion in Parliament in support of the beleaguered community at Trevalga - - but declined to do so, having difficulty with the part of the motion that referred to the anti-social and anti-community practice and impact of people who don't live in Cornwall removing residential houses from the available residential housing stock for taking occasional holidays. You can read the story of The Battle For Trevalga here: www.battlefortrevalga.org

Ah,of course, Mr Smith, she is not in fact an MP.
A wishful thinking slip, perhaps, on the part of the Northcliffe Media Monopoly editors?

A little "slow off the mark" there, AccurateChronometer. Never mind, it gave you a chance to go off on your "clockwork rant" about "multiple-home owners", as you call them.

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Would she do better opening a gardening service

You're mistaken Slimslad - AC would never refer to a residential houses decommissioned from residential use for taking holidays by non-residents as a 'home'.
In addition, re-affirming the obvious truth about the shocking anti-social and anti-community mis-use of the residential housing stock of Cornwall & Scilly by an affluent clutch of anti-social non-residents (around 20-30,000) as and when required may be prompt but is hardly, in this day and age, done by 'clockwork'.

AC he claims he is not to be an extremist

If it looks like a ducks, quacks like a duck etc etc

Please, AccurateChronometer. Credit folk with some sense.
How many Cornish-owned holiday rental properties are there?
They are holiday rentals for a reason. They make far more money for their Cornish owners, let to "emmets", than ever could be made renting to fellow Cornish people.

Where do you get your "around 20,000-30,000 anti-social non-residents" ?

Here's a suggestion to perhaps help you better appreciate the truly tragic character of the overall situation, 'Slimslad'.
You might care to research the figures for the following categories:
1.The number of formerly residential houses now owned by non-residents for taking occasional holidays and enjoying 10% Council Tax discount due to those houses not now being lived in as a primary residence.
2.The number of formerly residential houses now owned by non-residents and mis-used for taking occasional holidays but declared as loss making 'businesses' in order to avoid paying Council Tax even at 90%.
3.The number of formerly residential houses removed from the residential housing stock and now being mis-used for tourist rentals by both non-residents and Cornish residents (your breakdown there will be of interest).
4.The number of residential houses removed from residential ownership and now run as year round tenant letting business for landlord profit.
5.The number of converted farm and other buildings designated 'holiday use only'.
6.The number of formerly residential houses standing empty.

Good luck! It will be refreshing to see you offer up some solidly researched data (for a change?).

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Sigh.

All the blame put on "non-residents". What a shock.
Not even subtle xenophobia. The ills of Cornwall blamed on "outsiders".

The problem is to have a fight you need an enemy they tried the English and lost. Now they try second home owners forgetting the phrase "Second home owner" is not unique to England, the vast number of Second home owners are Cornish

The politics of envy

Would you please define what a Second Home Owner actually is?