When times are hard – a little faith, trust and pixie dust are always welcome – and the county councillor for Cranleigh & Ewhurst has just discovered his wand.
The councillor – who has neither been seen nor heard for most of the past four years has suddenly emerged. Just in time to slide back into the seat, he intends to reclaim at the May county council elections?
He recently positioned himself outside the Cranleigh recycling centre. A centre that has been closed most of the year, and which now opens only a couple of days each week. A move that has sent residents of the eastern villages schlepping over to the Witley Recycling Centre.
Then he began trumpeting the Surrey county council community fund. A £100 million Surrey County Council giveaway, or should it be called bribe?
You can read all about it here:
He then did a run – presumably his usual morning run, along the Downslink checking the fallen trees.
“As a result of recent high winds, a number of trees were blown down and blocking the Downslink. I ran down the section from Cranleigh to Baynards Station this morning and pleased to see the Surrey County Council Countryside Access Team have cleared this section. It was a beautiful sunny morning for a run but it is very muddy in places.”
Here’s what Cranleigh’s Little Povey says:
The Surrey County Council community fund (your money) is now live on the SCC website. This is a large capital fund for community projects that residents can suggest. You can comment on the suggestions that are put up. There are two that have been suggested so far for Cranleigh, a Biodiversity and Sustainability Education Centre and a Mentoring Programme. Please take a look. Suggestions can be made in outline first and a full business case can follow later.
So what’s his next giveaway? Don’t hold your breath…
In the caption below County Cllr Andrew Povey reveals the electric charging points that villagers won’t be plugging in to – and asks to hear residents’ views?
Views? Nil Point – comes to mind. Is it time to move over Dr Povey?
Our Little Pony only got 53% of the vote in 2015. Now that Richard Cole’s profile has been raised at Your Waverley, hopefully he will be standing again against Dr Povey and take the seat from him. (as long as the paper candidates from Labour etc stay away) If the LibDems get their well organised volunteers to campaign here then it’s quite feasible.
It shouldn’t take much to shift the man, from what we hear from our followers. Isn’t the county councillor supposed to provide the local parish council with regular updates? We haven’t noticed any reference to these on any of the eastern villages local minutes.
There was a time when county councillors made regular appearances at their parish councils – excluding COVID – can’t find any reference to a visit either!