Poisonous Pen Letters….

I am sure all political parties in the uk believe this to be true? But I am not sure I've seen anything Labour have done recently to merit voting for them  Southwark's Labour Run Authority ..despite being a Labour supporter for over 50 years...

Happy Spring!

I anticipate that after the tone of this week’s local election and with a looming financial crisis, a snap General Election is on the cards this Autumn and if this happens, Southwark Labour Party needs to get its act together! 

Let me explain…  Three hours before the polling stations closed, a Labour rep not known to us came to our door. Her visit was to check if we had already or were still going to cast our votes and by implication, that we would be casting our ballot for the Labour candidates. This is not surprising, for as a family, the Labour Party records has us down as left-leaning, European loving and pro-social assimilation. 

Explaining why our visitor seemed surprised to learn that we were wavering in our supporting for the local Labour candidates because of their distribution of what we considered disappointing material. We cannot understand why the political party we support could post this slur through our door, twice! Especially as our door has a very prominent sign – No Junk Mail…

It was clear that the agent was not sure how to react to my feelings that the circulation of this pamphlet anonymously incurred the stigma of cowardice…

There was a long silence, perhaps because people will rarely be so full and frank, because of a natural desire to belong or to fit in, to please others and confirm that we are  go-along-guys, or perhaps due to feeling of needing to be loyal and tow the party line… 

My sense of natural justice was offended by the flouting of the law of good manners!!!

“See how completely men and women deceive themselves! Every one regards those sins, which he does not himself commit as heinous, and those he does commit as trivial” according to Francesco Guicciardini (b. 1483–d. 1540) a Florentine patrician and papal administrator who penned many works on the history and the government of his native city and documented the era of the Italian Wars in his monumental Storia d'Italia.

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Local Elections May 2022: A Motley Collection of Strays…

 

Dulwich: Labour is still strong but the Liberal Democrats are making gains…

On Wednesday, the day before the local elections, to get my 10,000 steps I walked from West Norwood to Peckham Rye canvassing a range of views on the next days election.  The general consensus of the people interested in sharing their expectations of the outcome of the election did not expect a Tory collapse but felt the Tories are slipping, especially with homeowners….

 

Still, Labour supporters, were not holding their breath for this or the next election 

“ Its all still up in the air” nobody seeming confident that the current occupants of Downing streets would be evicted. “The keys are not in the post Sir Keir!!!  

Also on my walk, asking people their views of the current incumbents, most –like me- scratched their heads wondering what ever happened to our local Member for Parliament. The only politician anyone could recall who was doing a good job was called Tessa? 

The traditional Labour supporters complained, in different ways, sometimes directly, sometimes in code. But the news are not the best for the current office holders in this South London area who seem to be storing up trouble while they tell each other “Darling-you-were-wonderful”…

I understand that 95% of all professional political productivity consists of inter-office politics, spent writing missives and memorandums, essentially promoting their own careers amongst themselves, which is not going to be enough… 

Recommended action to the current incumbents of all parties:

         -   Start listening to your constituents… 

         -   Do some work on behalf of the voters…

        -    At a minimum please reply to constituents' mail…

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