BEWARE OF LOCAL COUNCILLORS

It’s that time of the year when local councillors start posting leaflets containing pictures of themselves smiling eerily while holding party placards and claiming that they’ve just had a ‘great response’ on the doorstep!

Well not at my house they didn’t! The chap who surreptitiously crept up my path to deliver his ‘Vote for Labour’ glossy pamphlet, shot off on his electric scooter so fast, that he was a virtual blur!

Mind you, no other party has even managed to do that!

So much for listening to residents who would like to ask about specific local issues and how since the last election, what impact had they made on the same issues that they again say they are ‘putting at the forefront’ of everything they do!

If our councillors are so damn good at doing their jobs, aka - looking after us, giving us better services, reducing our taxes and generally making life and the environment of Tameside better for all, - something they would have us believe - why then is it necessary to regularly change things?

I’m beginning to believe that the entire political class is comprised of people who are part of a strange power-worshipping cult, obsessed with populism, believing in its own infallibility, tending towards totalitarianism and quite detached from reality!