It is now common talk that the conjoined twins, the Bell Boys will not be standing in Talbot Ward for the Conservatives. Hoorah!! But that says nothing for their successors whether Lieber, Cuntservative or Lib Demented.
Blackpool is ripe for Independent minded, fearless representation with councillors who can resonate with the ordinary, exhausted and over imposed Sandgrown’uns. Not only has their voice been silenced by PC and the over abused bigotry label, but it has been confined to meaningless whimpers by political organisations all too eager to promote their evil and proven corrupt philosophies. Had anyone just watched the debacle of Barnsley this week, all wishes for honest and straight-forward speaking were have been rendered aghast at the dogma of again one party politics practised by an electorate ignorant of the centuries of fight from the Thomas Paine through the Free Enterprise generations of Thatcher and Milton Friedman.
What few grasp is that life and circumstances are fluid. The dogma of 20th Century socialism has failed on a universal level with whole nations screaming for the supposed Utopia of American commercialism. Look behind the charade of American TV and films and you will see corruption equal to anything seen in the Old Soviet Nations. Everywhere the disparity between rich and poor is becoming wider and more visible. Petty corruption, perceived or otherwise, is rife and illustrated with the local angst over monies to councillors for legitimate(sic) political expenditure. What is the more heinous, the thousands of pounds siphoned through Ron Bell and Ian Fowler’s legitimate business interests, or the excessive travel expenses for Simon Blackburn or the money he shifted from his ward to that of another ward where his Common Law Wife will be standing as a candidate?
To use an old fashioned Lancashire metaphor, shit stinks. What also stands true I that I seems that no sooner has an honest and well meaning person been elected as a voice-piece for you and me, they suddenly loose the capacity to think and act for themselves. What hypocrisy dictates that the Blackpool South MP can sit amongst, work amongst the most corrupt set of individuals outside of the Banking Industry and NOT be aware that such malfeasance is taking place? Yet his silence was/is legendary. What made a God worshipping choir boy and prized local hero as a former serving man, sufficiently wealthy to have the £20k needed to front his political ambitions, think that he had the credentials to remove the much hated incumbent Labour MP? Almost 19.000 people voted for him and a forensic examination of his supporters may reveal that they knew nothing of the individual and, like the Hartlepool hosts, voted for a symbol; or perhaps there is a desire just to rid themselves of this troublesome incumbent?
This ought to be asked in the coming council elections of each and every person standing. A long look at local blogs clearly indicates that this will never happen. The stench of hypocrisy that emanates from Town Hall will only change in odour from Pig Shit to Dog Shit unless the electorate turns out in force and vote according to evidence and not dogma. No chance. The incapacity for fluid thought is all too evident when Man becomes politician.
