- A labour candidate pointing out that Thatcher and Major spent 18 years squeezing the highways capital investment budgets of local authorities, a blinkered and ultimately costly folly finally reversed, if only in part, by the post-1997 Labour government, or...
- A lib-dem concerned that the average Island First road improvement budget before Pughtin got his hands on the Council was £6m to £7m a year, which had been slashed to a paltry £130,000 by last year, and although this may have been through incompetence rather than design, that sadly makes no difference to the resultant garage bills and accident toll.
Imagine my surprise when said acquaintance faxed the mystery candidate's leaflet to me, and it turned out to be from a Mr Tuson, Tory hopeful for east Ryde! Was it not made clear to Mr Tuson when he was recruited that the past four glorious years, incorporating the Bullen roller-coaster and the High Park switch-back, are all the work of the very party he aspires to represent? Surely it would be only fair, if a mistake has been made, to allow Mr Tuson to switch to another party before it's to late?
He bills himself as a local man, which is a little puzzling given that his other issue apart from rubbishy roads is the success of Community Wardens in rolling back the endless tide of doggy-poo. It may not be apparent when driving through the ward, but there is more crap on the footpaths of Appley and Elmfield today than there was in Andy "Shape up or ship out" Sutton's last manifesto. Perhaps Mr Tuson means that he is local to the Island (which is more than can be said for most of the Council's soi-disant "Top Team"). Perhaps he lives nearby, somewhere like Seaview for example.
My friend is looking forward to a chat!
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