THE DECEPTION, ILLUSION & DELUSION OF LOCAL POLITICS
Part 1
The Deception
Whenever you look at the main three parties leaflets that are issued prior to ‘local’ elections, you could be forgiven for thinking it was instead a national election to choose a government. With Labour bringing out NHS pay for nurses, education and skills and beating the drum of equality for all.
Meanwhile the Tories flounce about on the coat-tails of the vaccine roll-out, freedom from COVID and levelling up regions.
Finally LibDems, still wallowing in self-pity about Brexit, and situation in Northern Ireland, as they board their 12 seat battle bus for a grand, local election campaign tour.
- Local Councils don’t pay nurses wages it is a ‘NATIONAL’ issue
- Education and skills is a NATIONAL agenda item
- Equality legislation is passed in the Palace of Westminster and not the Civic Centre.
- Boris has done a great job with rollout of the vaccine, but there are some serious questions about cronyism still to be answered and again that is NATIONAL not local.
- They have also gone from no vaccine passport system in a million years, to introducing it within three months, on the back of that little APP that appearted on your mobile phone without you noticing.
- As for levelling up the regions, national election pledge. Well that went into the black hole of silence the day after Boris got the keys to number 10.
- Finally to our LibDem friends. Brexit is done, dusted, over, time to move on and respect democracy, you lost, your leader was ousted from Parliament, despite her declaring herself the PM in waiting. You don’t listen and you never will!
So all in all they shout about NATIONAL agenda items and never a mention of OLDHAM or the state the place is in after 32 years of worrying about how many MP’s they have and who forms the next government. This is local and this is about your life, your communities and your surroundings.
Take a look at the Labour leaflet and ask yourself some simple questions as you look at the SIX hexagonal dreams offered before you . . . What have they got to do with Oldham and the state the place is in? How do those dreams they offer, jell with the reality they provide.
Greenest Borough in Manchester – Whopping great Incinerator coming down the pipe for Royton South
Ending inequality – Exactly what proportion of the wider electorate are living in all those lovely new houses they have built already, and who will be living in the ones earmarked to border the ‘new’ linear park area in Saint Mary’s
Promote health and wellbeing – That’s really scrapping the barrel, considering what this nation has been through over the past year. It also prompts the question … HOW?
Once again you are being offered complete garbage and being told to feel grateful as you swallow it. Garbage that fails to address any of the issues that people actually want solving, rectifying, or changing in order to make life a little more bearable and maintain pride, safety and amenities within the communities that for ALL of Oldham.
