Deprivation..... That's what you need.

Reading the Harald, we are informed that certain parts of Adur (including the part that I reside in) are quite sh*t really. THIS is what they had to say about it, and as usual we are given a pretend positive spin on the results.

Why is it "Not all bad news"?

Yes, there's not enough Hospitals, schools, or housing, but apparently people have jobs, most of which are not local jobs, and RECORDED crime stats are down, maybe because crimes are simply never recorded therefore never show as undetected.

I live in Southlands ward, one of the forgotten wards in Adur and along with Eastbrook the largest concentration of council owned housing in Adur. What are our councillors doing about this?

Well, the Eastbrook Tory, Jim Funnell has commented, but our councillor Boozer Burns is, as usual completely absent, so Southlands gets ignored as usual by our local Tory cabal.

What do you think that Funnell is doing for Eastbrook then?

Well, discussing the local issues with the local school won't help much, as that's in the process of being closed down and as usual they all seem to think that talking about it is enough, sadly this is usually as far as the local Tories go, there never seems to be any action.

As for the things happening in Eastbrook, the Fishersgate centre is not there because of ADC, it's there despite ADC. Adur council tried everything in their power to prevent the Fishersgate Residents from opening this community hub and it's only there down to dogged resistance and hard work fighting against people like Funnell.

The statement about upgrading the recreation ground has been floating around for years with no evidence that this is going to happen any time soon, and the bus service is another thing that has been around for ages, but ADC refuse to fund it, so it's never going to happen.

A telling sign that ADC's Tories don't give a damn about Fishersgate is that, at the last election, they weren't even given a polling station and had to travel more than a mile (with no bus service) in order to vote.

Luckily, they will have a polling station for the next election, so maybe they'll do the right thing and vote against their Tory oppressors and get in someone who actually cares about the area in real life, and not just when there's media exposure to be gained. Hopefully Southlands ward will vote to get rid of Burns next year as well, that's if the Tories haven't already ditched him during the selection process in favour of Parkin's useless wife.

ATAB
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