According to wannabe Surrey County Councillor Ged Hall – Haslemere’s potholes need fixing?
Wouldn’t it be great if he managed to get a hold of the facts before he started digging the dirt? It was ‘job already done’ by Cllr Nikki Barton who he wants to oust!
We know it was April Fools Day when the Tory candidate for Haslemere’s county council seat lobbed one at the sitting Independent for not ensuring Surrey’s roads were kept up to scratch. However, he dug a mighty hole for himself. A large one that in the future, he may need to fill?
Whisper who dares?
Hasn’t anyone told the Tory hopeful that the county council has been dominated by Conservatives for the past four years and more? The Conservatives currently hold 61 of the 81 seats, which by anyone’s reckoning seems to us like nobody, including Cllr Barton, gets a look-in?
However, if the Tory bastion starts to swing another way – the Tory Government just might have to give a little more seed corn to the cash-strapped local authority. It has already lost the overall control of both Guildford and Waverley Borough Councils. It won’t want to lose Surrey.
SCC has invested 59m into the Farnham scandal that is Blightwells. An unpopular scheme to provide the town with 28 new shops and eight new restaurants, and more housing. A development partnership between Waverley and Surrey that Cllr Hall backed all the way from Godalming to Farnham – and back again when he was Waverley’s deputy leader.
Perhaps the money could have been put to better use? Among them filling many thousands of dangerous potholes, or perhaps even go a step further and do a proper job and re-surface Surrey’s third-world roads?
THE Tory backlash in 2019 where Ged Hall lost both his seats slashed the number of councillors from 49 to 23.
But who better to blame, when you are a hole and want it filled than to blame SCC Cllr Nikki Barton who currently represents Haslemere. And, a damned fine job the Independent councillor has made of it too.
County elections
The County Council elections are on May 6, and we urge you to get a postal vote if you haven’t already. See here how to do it:
https://www.waverley.gov.uk/Services/Council-information/Registering-to-vote-and-elections/Absent-voting-postal-or-proxy.
But of course, you’re free to vote in person if you’d prefer it!
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implying I was not taking full responsibility for securing funds for this repair in Haslemere. 3/
The best way to secure a people friendly SCC is to vote anyone but Tory.
Here, here! Let’s get some checks and balances into Surrey County Council for the first time in many years.