Yes, the Tories think that we should vote for Parkin's missus, and suggest "10 good reasons" why we should. Let's look at these reasons before we decide whether they're good or not.
1. Council Tax frozen again. Maybe it was, this was subsidised by central government and although there has been no increase, there will be later and no doubt they will blame this on the Labour government as usual. They forget to mention that although we are paying the same as 3 years ago, we now don't have any civic buildings or locally run services, because they sold them all and gave the money to Worthing.
2. New Civic Hub to be opened. When exactly? A decent council would have ensured that this was more than a couple of bad drawings before closing down the other 3 civic offices. The claim that building this will somehow save £3m over the next 5 years, again how exactly?
3. Maintaining vital public services. By conspiring to sell of our local hospital and moving all public services to Worthing, or further afield.
4. Supporting new academies. Yes by allowing the church to profit from education, and as for Kings Manor now being an "outstanding academy", I can't see any improvement in the amount of litter or pavement parking created on Stoney Lane since they built their new building and now that they have moved over to this side of the field I can now clearly hear them shouting "you f*cking c*nt" at each other whilst in the school. So much improvement from Kings Manor, I went there, and it was a shithole, looks to me like little has changed.
5. Boosting employment. By opposing any comercial development on port land that might upset the beach residents. I suppose that there are more cafe jobs than there ever were in Shoreham, because, apart from charity shops, there is little else left.
6. Europe You decide. Yes, Camoron has decided to announce a referendum that might be held if he gets in at the next general election, more ifs and buts from the Tories.
7. Other parties talk. Yes and they listen too, unlike the local Tories. Again it's all about working to a price rather than a standard and in this section they seem to want to have a pop at the Tory that deserted them for UKIP, they claim that they dumped him due to his "poor attendance record at council meetings", a standard case of who dumped who and the gossip that follows. I did have a look at the council minutes and the UKIP candidate did actually attend more meetings that at least 3 other Tory councillors, so I guess that it was him that did the dumping and this leaflet is just the usual Tory lies.
Let's turn this thing over....
at 8 we have, Looking after your money. Yes, but they didn't have to take it all home with them in order to look after it for us, last year Parkin awarded himself a 66.6% (appropriate number there)increase in his allowance. They then go on about the usual Tory line of blaming the previous Labour government for overspending, but forget to mention that all local issues were controlled by them during this period, so when it comes to any local overspending it's the Tories who are solely responsible for any overspending.
9. Positive change for Adur. Yes I agree, Adur does need a change, it has been ruled by these idiots for long enough, the idea that Shoreham has anything in common with Sand Banks is laughable, I love Shoreham but let's face it, it ain't a millionaires playground is it. They say that we have a new village green and playground as well, I'm not sure where this is to be honest, I can't think of any new playgrounds that have appeared in the last 10 years and as we are not a village I don't see that we need a green, we already have open spaces, and it doesn't matter one jot what they are called.
10. A local candidate. Bullshit, out of all the candidates, she is the one that lives farthest away from the ward, out of the other 3, two of them live within the ward, and the other is just outside the border but has actually been seen in and around the area quite often. I've never seen Parkin around here, apparently she was here the other week for an hour or so, and even if she does get elected that will be it for the next 4 years, just like our other local councillor who lives even farther away than she does.
Nice that she is pictured outside Southlands hospital, which her party has confined to the scrap heap and deceived locals into believing that they were trying to save it until they saw there was a profit available. Yes these are 10 reasons, but none of them are good, and voting for these idiots will only result in Adur being swallowed up by Worthing, follow direction 9 and vote for a positive change in Adur by not voting for these jokers.
I love the picture with the cup cakes, I assume that she's bringing Neil his dinner in this shot. It's nice to know that she is able to manage to decorate cup cakes though, I assume that this is a clear indication that she has already mastered greetings card making and finger painting, after all we wouldn't want to put an idiot in charge now, would we?
K
