Shropshire Council, under Conservative control, has generally been satisfactory. Progress has been made in addressing road maintenance which has long been a source of frustration for residents. The Council was not the target of the voters’ ire.
Blair won the leadership of the Labour Party confronting left wingers, and promising to take the party to the centre ground. In contrast, Starmer won the leadership promising a hard-left agenda.
“I’ve already mentioned London,” says the Party Chairman. “Look at Wales. Patients almost twice as likely to be on the NHS waiting list as in England. What about Birmingham? A Council that spent time thinking up woke street names instead of looking after its finances.”
Oddly, my one regret about my time as a councillor was not joining the Planning Committee sooner, which I ended up enjoying serving on for the past few years.
Glory marches elsewhere alongside great successes, but true honour lies in the thankless fights.
As Conservatives, we know the Liberal Democrats are the party of opportunism. But we can’t take for granted that local people know this too.
Next year, we have all-out elections due to local boundary changes. We’re preparing for some very interesting results.
None of them are seemingly interested in the day-to-day running of local government and policy delivery. They ignore their duty to the local community.
Losses of £46 million from a failing energy supply company is just one reason eople are rightly complaining about paying more in Council Tax for less in diminishing or poorly performing public services.
Rotherham Council spends tens of millions into grandiose white elephant projects while allowing residents to fall behind.
We went hard on the risk of a Labour takeover and that Wirral would be a one Party state and on the Liverpool road to ruin.
His university-educated opponents will view him as a relic of the past. I see his refusal to stay on message as the shape of things to come.
Still far too few Conservative campaigns make effective use of Surveys, VoteSource, Connect Calling and Campaign Toolkit – or of the advice and expertise of our professional and highly effective Area Campaign Managers.
Our message here was a notably and noticeably positive one. Did that make it more difficult to get across?
We must fully include, trust, and listen, to those local leaders from the voluntary party who know exactly how to win on their doorstep.