The By-Election draws near...

Three days to go and election leaflets two and three have dropped onto the mat.

The first is for Joe Medley, headed "Vote for Joe". The theme is "say NO to council waste" but it seems to be about the City Council, not the Town Council. The front page is devoted to some issue about vandalism that there is some (unexplained) scheme on the cards costing £35k, when local people believe it would cost £5k with fencing. It seems the scheme is based on whims & pet schemes of the Independents but it doesn't elaborate.

There is a brief mention of the Town Council towards the end of the front page, "The problem for the Town Council is that the same people are on the city council as well, so the Town Council cannot speak up effectively on your behalf." I don't quite understand what point he (or the office) is making there. Five of the six City Councillors are indeed on the Town Council but that is out of twenty four Councillors, so I don't see how that stops the Town Council speaking up effectively on people's behalf. There is probably a subliminal message there, it is because they aren't Labour Party Councillors so they can't be right...

The back has more City Council bashing, firstly on budget cuts, then on Asbestosgate. This is a long running saga about some Asbestos garages discovered on a recent clean-up that the MBIs accuse Labour of turning up at next day for a photo opportunity & a press story. The MP also gets a look in, looking at a mattress. That one didn't make it only the shiny election leaflet...


Another leaflet, called Labour Rosette, appears to be a BNP leaflet disguised as something called the Pro Democracy league. It is just as scurrilous as those anti-BNP leaflets from the SWP, taking them on at their own game.