I LOOK forward to Wednesdays and the arrival of The Standard. Recently I've been looking at the front page and then turning to the letters section.
Over the last few months there have been a number of letters from Paul Kenny on behalf of the Labour Party.
His latest makes it quite clear that he feels all BBI councillors are "amateurs" and that, by this assumption, proper debate can only tak
e place between professionals.
He states that the BBI and the Conservatives are "joined at the hip", so this presumably means that the Conservatives are amateurs too?
That just leaves two independents four Better Boston Group and one BNP councillor to engage in the debate.
You will notice he makes no reference to the Labour Councillors, simply because there are none!
Not one out of 32 seats- speaks volumes in its self.
So why the venom at the BBI? If you analyse the results on the last election you will see that 25 seats were BBI, five Conservative and two Independent.
That right not a single Labour Councillor was elected.
They fared no better in the two by-elections being beaten by firstly the Conservative and secondly by the BNP.
However if you remove all the BBI candidates from the list six seats would have been Labour.
Perhaps this animosity to the BBI is simply jealousy?
In the Witham ward with out the BBI both the Labour and the Conservative candidates would have been elected even if they received no votes. Democracy in action?
This cosy arrangement came to an end when the BBI stood for election – no longer where seats given out just for standing, now you have to fight.
Why I ask myself where no Labour councillors elected?
Perhaps it's because the electorate do not believe the spin they proliferate.
Professional they may be, but successful? Well I'll leave that to the reader So a word of advice from an amateur to a professional: 'Look to the left of your letter in last week's Standard: 84 per cent of the readers surveyed said yes to a zero per cent council tax increase."
Perhaps Labour will realise that people want to be free to decide how best to spend their money.
Remember your short comings and before you remove the splinter from someone else's eye make sure you have removed the plank from your own! On a bright note, though, the only way forward for Mr Kenny and his Labour group is forward – Let's face it: It can't get any worse.
Coun Jim Blaylock
BBI
