| Topic: | Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Is momentum supposed to be Labour? | |
| Posted by: | Phil Andrews | |
| Date/Time: | 27/04/17 08:29:00 |
| All true. And the word from the doorsteps is that when asked Ruth has not exactly strained every nerve to disassociate herself from this dreadful decision. Somebody once famously said at a council meeting that what we might call dishonesty others might casually dismiss as politics. Nevertheless, one wonders just how much she has hitherto been aware of the strength of feeling on this issue. Certainly reading some of the guff on here from certain of the councillors involved there would seem to be a serious case of group denial. If the solace they seek in their own alternative facts has rubbed off on their MP she could maybe be forgiven for believing that opinion is more evenly divided than it actually is in the real world. At the very least this provides residents with some opportunity to extract some real, public commitment from their MP at a time when she really has no choice but to care what they think. Ruth, with her majority of 465 and the tide of national opinion apparently gravitating against her, needs to consider just how badly she wants another five years in the job in which she has found herself. No ambiguous statements, no politician-speak - a firm commitment to support her constituents in their struggle against a remote, power-obsessed and dictatorial local authority with a sense of its own invulnerability and entitlement is what is required, and she doesn't have long to give it. Her opportunity, her choice. |