Topic: | Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:LTNs gone - but a more fundamental issue..... | |
Posted by: | Simon Hayes | |
Date/Time: | 06/10/21 22:18:00 |
A good proportion of the electorate are stupid because they don’t examine the reason why they vote a particular way. In 2018 there were a lot of anti-Tory votes because of Brexit. Bell played on this with his EU flag flying at the town hall, etc. Lots of Poles and other European nationals in Ealing who will have fallen for that trick. As I said before, there wasn’t much about policy plans in Labour literature in 2018. Northfields candidates boasted about ‘saving’ Northfields library after the collapse of Carillion, then promptly put in motion the change to a community managed model with consequent loss of jobs, opening hours and books. Minimal savings, despite the claims, and not a secure long term future. Then they supported the hiking up of CPZ permit charges, another plan hidden deep in the manifesto with zero detail supporting it. Nasty shock for a lot of residents, and hitting the worse off hardest. What of Gurnell leisure centre? Closed still, despite rejection of ridiculous redevelopment plans by the planning committee months ago, while thousands of regular users clamour for it to be reopened. ‘Examining options’ says Mason. Yeah, options for his developer chums no doubt. Warren Farm. Ealing Town Hall. Southall Waterside. Manor Road. Hastings Road. Acton recycling centre. There’s an almost inexhaustible list of dubious ideas hatched and approved by a small cabal of local Labour politicians, supposedly to benefit the people of Ealing. Yet when those people of Ealing question, then oppose, those plans they are lied to or ignored. Some of us have been watching this unfold over the years. Questioning and challenging. The blind Labour loyalists cling to their beliefs but the rhetoric on which they rely is wearing perilously thin. And they know it. The LTNs have been a watershed moment for large swathes if Ealing. Too many people have had a political awakening now and won’t put up with the lies and spin any longer. |