There are few who could give the impression of supporting democracy
in their articles, when their conclusion promotes the exact opposite. But the
'Bard of Tameside' does this with incredible skill and consistency, usually by
launching into political histrionics that has no bearing on the current topic.
He’s
become Tweedledee and Tweedledum rolled into one!
Like all bureaucrats, ‘job for
life’ councillors and many who work, or have held managerial positions within the
public sector, nobody has to worry too much about real world things like
competition, or keeping customers. One only needs to read about our council’s
latest ‘money wasting, ill thought out policy on parking in Ashton’ to realise
that they’re quite content suckling on the public teat.
Proponents of big government never quite understand that real growth occurs with freedom and trust, and that economies shrink with paranoia and control. The paradox for them is that growth requires that control be relaxed and sometimes relinquished. Of course, many politicos are unwilling to do that, and what we end up with is an economy of nominal growth and real shrinkage based on policies that fuel an ever growing potential for volatility that occasionally; (as in our current position on Brexit) breaks into utter chaos.
Hence we have Labour’s ‘democratic’
economic theory: If it moves tax it, if it keeps moving regulate it, if it
stops moving subsidize it. And
the Conservatives who supposedly stand for free open markets, low taxation, a
strong work ethic, freedom of expression and the right to make our own laws!
Now I'd like to ask Cllr Taylor, to explain without prevarication, what our Labour
controlled council actually stands for.
Regrettably, there doesn't seem to be any organisation within Tameside willing to hold the council and its councillors to account. Those which have the power to do so seem to sing from the council's hymn sheet.
ReplyDeleteNot that the local Conservatives, if and when their presence is felt, do much in a local capacity. For example, their recent local election communication contained a leaflet bashing Corbyn, as if that had much to do with local issues.
Following their Brexit betrayal, both main parties deserve a pasting in the May elections and I hope they get one.
Two articles worth a read are as follows:
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/why-hague-is-so-wrong-about-the-pm/
https://hat4uk.wordpress.com/2019/04/10/opinion-time-for-a-coalition-of-disenfranchised-vulnerable-britannia/
I'd like to know how this prominent Tameside councillor can have the nickname wag. He uses this on his Facebook page and drives his vehicle with the registration wag on it.What kind of of example to the kids is this or what kind of image does this portray of Tameside.Id love to know what the Shadow minister of education thinks of this.Really it's a example of a man who's been a councillor for far to long.This clown was writing to the reporter criticizing the brexit fiasco when he can't even organise the parking on Standard Street.
ReplyDeletePS I meant Stamford Street,in all honesty my grammar is better than councillor Taylor's.
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