Nothing about anything that's actually going on in Braintree district, except a few photographs of new local amenities under the heading 'Work completed so far'. One of the amenities is Braintree swimming pool, which, as you'll see, is still very much under construction rather than 'completed'. Nice work, guys.
The critique of Labour, focusing entirely on national rather than local issues, has to be read to be believed. I'm reprinting it below, with annotation:
"Since Labour came to power this Government has increased taxes [to pay for public service investment which the Tory leadership says they will maintain], controlled immigration seems to be a thing of the past [actually this government has introduced even more draconian immigration laws than the last Tory government], our countryside has been bulldozed over, the roads move towards gridlock [anyone apart from me sense a contradiction in acting building in the countryside whilst simultaneously saying we need more roads?] and our Police have their hands tied with red tape [oh for the good old days of the seventies when the cops were free to beat up homosexuals and ethnic minorities with impunity]. The march towards a federal Europe carries on regardless of what people think. [The first vaguely true thing they've said - but are the Tories planning to pull us out of Europe? No.] ... It's time for Tony Blair to go in the national interest." [amen to that... but what's it got to do with the local elections?]
I'm posting this garbage back to Tory campaign HQ with some choice comments attached to tell them exactly what I think of it. Still, at least they've bothered to send something through. I've had sweet F.A. from Labour. Or the Lib Dems. We haven't even had a bleedin' poll card.
Local elections give me some difficulty as the Green Party doesn't normally have enough money to put up candidates for the district council so we are left with the standard three parties. I normally vote Labour, if only to try to keep the Tories out of the council. It's a bit hopeless here though. This is an affluent part of Essex, and anyone could stand on the Conservative ticket and get elected - for example Peter Sutcliffe, or indeed Jeremy Bamber, the guy who is doing time for killing his family in Tolleshunt D'Arcy, just down the road from us. In (very) idle moments, I sometimes wonder if Battlestar Galactica actor Jamie Bamber, who plays Lee Adama, is distantly related to Jeremy? He is English, although he has an American accent in the series. Which is weird, because James Callis, who plays Baltar, is allowed to have an English accent. But then why would anyone in the "12 tribes of Kobol" speak English anyway? I guess that just shows the extent of American influence.
The fact that 'a long time ago in a galaxy far far away' English just happened to be spoken is a key issue for Star Wars as well, although not for Star Trek - although I'm always amazed the number of civilisations the Enterprise encounters who speak perfect English. Then again, a 45 minute episode of unintelligible alien languages wouldn't be very entertaining. But they could always subtitle or dub it. Sorry, this has gone way off the point... 'arse in a letterbox 16:9 ratio', anyone?
2 comments:
So you're one of the silly buggers that keeps voting Labour !
I knew that sooner or later I'd stumble across one of you...where's the other one!
I think he's based in Islington. You would recommend voting for the Tories then, sir?
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