The two Coalition parties, who have ordered the cuts to be endured by the last people to have had any hand in causing the economic crisis.
Labour and the Independent Group (successor of the old Derwentide Independents), who have devised and implemented, or at the very least failed to prevent, the particular cuts in Lanchester and Burnhope, to exactly the sort of service without which there can be no economic recovery.
Whether or not you are, as I am, medically unable to drive, do not vote for any of them. But do vote. Make alternative arrangements to ensure that you have someone to vote for.
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How about someone directly affected by these cuts, a longstanding Lanchester parish councillor and former 8-year governor of two Lanchester schools, with a large potential dynastic vote in Burnhope?
ReplyDeleteThis is a worldwide problem. We have the same "good cop, bad cop" routine in the US where to the extent the Democrats and Republicans compete, its in how much they can shaft the public. But on some congressional votes, the whips in both parties will allow some Congressmen and the odd Senator to dissent, as long as there is enough "bipartisan" support.
ReplyDeleteMy way of dealing with this is to make a practice of voting for fringe parties, unless there appears to be a very good reason otherwise, but the important question is why there is so much collusion among the mainstream political actors.
As it happens I'm medically unable to drive too.
ReplyDeleteBecause you will never be well enough to do it even if you could get the votes, is making the lives of Lanchester's county councillors a misery going to be your life's work? Are you going to get yourself a trophy or a plaque every time one of them stands down or loses his seat in the next 20, 30, 40, 50 years?
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