29 April - It’s Labour all the way for me
There was a time when saying that would be the stuff of nightmares for me but the
circumstances are somewhat exceptional. Please allow me to explain…
The lady who sent me this email (below) is not wrong is she? With both main parties
in Westminster more or less equally useless and both led by liars
a choice of only Conservative or Labour is restrictive to say the least.
It’s
the same here in Belvedere. If I voted on national issues I might hold my nose
and vote Conservative but I am not yet so very mad that I would do that; vote on
national issues that is. This is a local election and in this ward - yours might be
different - there is no argument about where my X must go.
On the one hand we have three experienced candidates who do their best for the area
and on the other three Conservatives who think it is appropriate to be backed by a man who
chased me around town in his van until apprehended by the police.
Without Sally and Daniel, Kulvinder Singh’s company would not have been convicted
following the H&SE’s prosecution for the
dangerous demolition of Ye Olde Leather Bottle.
The Conservative Council did nothing and
we now have a good idea why.
Labour shoved
a new leaflet through my letter box early this morning and as
usual I have read it end to end in nit picking mode. I could argue that a Labour
Mayor who canned
the Thames crossing is not “improving public transport links” but probably the
biggest mistake is to caption their main photo as Esther, Daniel and Sally when it
is quite obviously Sally, Daniel and Esther. (Yes, that is supposed to be a wind up.)
There is a new East
Wickham Lib Dem leaflet too. I am never quite sure of the wisdom of a
single candidate pointing out that you have three votes. (Two in some wards.)
Wouldn’t it be better to suggest that voters only use one vote? Someone is bound
to know the answer to that better than I do.