Politics

[Nowack]

2 minutes ago, kent_white said:

He IS going to 'passionately bring honesty' though 😁

Seriously - does nobody proof read these things? 

Only singling him out because he's won. The rest were just as shite. 

Agreed. I am sure plenty have been surprised and relieved about how little they actually matter or influence.

[dave2980]

3 minutes ago, kent_white said:

He IS going to 'passionately bring honesty' though 😁

Seriously - does nobody proof read these things? 

Only singling him out because he's won. The rest were just as shite. 

John Walsh can't have been that bad, given that he was the longest serving council member!

The conservatives are the only ones who seem to do anything or have any visibility in Astley Bridge.

[athywhite1958]

38 minutes ago, kent_white said:

It is a heavily right wing party. Basing this on the fact that they want to....agree

Start mass deportations of irregular migrants..agree, start with stopping further migrants via the small boats, or any other route they may take 

Scrap net zero and increase gas/oil drilling...Net zero by 2030 was far too ambitious, a slower controlled option would have been better and allow some oil/gas drilling

Have tougher sentencing, more police, expanded stop and search... agree, far too many scrotes carrying weapons without a deterrent 

Leave the European Convention on Human Rights and repeal the Human Rights Act...agree

Cut NHS funding by £26 billion and offer tax breaks for private healthcare... nope, nurses and general hospital staff should be paid more, money could be made by cutting the number of managers/executive roles

Cut public spending by nearly £300 billion... no chance of that ever happening, a lot to do with the benefits bill which is unbelievably high and funding illegal migrants

Most Reform voters stop reading after the first point though, sadly. Never even thought of voting Reorm, Independent locally and I'll make my decision when the next GE is

My answers which are MY own opinion

[Ani]

As much as I dislike Reform and their policies. 
 

People have to admit with turn out generally up across the country and lots more people from poorer segments of society getting involved and in some cases being elected it is hard to argue that they do not have a strong mandate to get on and deliver.

Do they have the experience and nous to do this ? We will see. 

[Nowack]

Not much they can deliver on though. What they can do is look at policy and set budgets, both long term and strategic with no immediate gains. What they immediately do is act as a "voice for residents" and act as a conduit between officers and the public. What could get tricky is if they start a public slanging match, like our successive governments seem to like doing with the civil service. 

[kent_white]

1 minute ago, Nowack said:

Not much they can deliver on though. What they can do is look at policy and set budgets, both long term and strategic with no immediate gains. What they immediately do is act as a "voice for residents" and act as a conduit between officers and the public. What could get tricky is if they start a public slanging match, like our successive governments seem to like doing with the civil service. 

They can cause a lot of harm as well. Public Health sit under councils nowadays. 

So this will mean you have a PH team who are in charge of making sure the people of the town are as near to fully vaccinated as possible - sitting under a party who invite vaccine sceptics to their national conference. 

You might as well put a homeopath in charge of running A&E.