Thursday, 12 June 2025

The Labour Party when you email them to tell them you're leaving over their Gaza policy...

 Dear Anthony,


Thank you for RSVPing to 💭🌹Thursday Be a Councillor: Croydon (Online)🌹💭! Thousands of people across the country are getting involved, and we appreciate you joining us.

I mean, become a Councillor?  With the Council now bankrupt so many times that "Commissioners have been sent in" from Whitehall ... Is it worth voting in local elections at all? Labour holed the Titanic that was Croydon Council's finances in a series of ill advised investments that are adequately chronicelled elsewhere and since then the Tory Mayor has been little more than a one man band playing as the ship sinks. The only solution for the Council is never-forthcoming debt forgiveness and for Councils to be banned from the kind of dodgy PPP Brick by Brick deals that allow ruthless “businessmen” to fill their boots with public cash whilst the details of the deals are hidden from public scrutiny… No there’s never been debt forgiveness before, but then there were proper guardrails before the previous Tory governments removed them in what amounted to a Spiv’s Charter. And not one penny of the effectively half inched money has ever been returned. Where did the Fairfield Halls grand piano go? Surely you don’t need to be Poirot to solve that one? No local administration is ever going to be able to pay back what Croydon Council owes … It’s stuck in a doom loop and is effectively run from Whitehall ...a Constitutional crisis as a democratically elected Mayor is put on pause by the very party that bankrupted the Council in the first place. Once central government starts switching off democratic institutions for an “emergency” it’ll be easier and easier for them to find an excuse whenever they fancy… The Council’s been in one kind of special measure or another for so long now I don’t know how anyone has the enthusiasm to either stand or vote for the emasculated Councillors or Mayor anymore. Yet still they email me like nothing’s gone on.

“Would I like to be a Councillor?”. 

They must be truly desperate for people to pilot the ghost ship…. 

We are in banana republic territory…


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