Mr Andrews comments with disapproval on the party-hopping behaviour of one of the Reform party candidates in the forthcoming Lincolnshire County Council elections.
I don’t know that candidate, but I was struck by the prospectus issued by the Reform party’s candidate for the new Lincolnshire mayoral post.
Key bits of her prospectus looks as if they had been pinched directly from Donald Trump’s jotter pad.
She even uses the abbreviation ‘doge’ coined in the USA for the activities of Elon Musk, and says she intends to pursue a Lincolnshire version of that.
Unsurprisingly, and copying the party leaders, she also says she will say ’No’ to the ‘madness of net zero’. (In reality, the state of halting the worsening of the climate-change problem).
Neither she nor the leaders explain why they see it as madness or nonsense.
None of them appears to have the scientific education needed to make such a judgement.
Rather, they follow the principle of using their oratory forcefully to impact the judgement of their target audience. That is the method of dictators through the ages, and it’s been shown often enough that it can lure the unwary.
So, if Mr Andrews’ party-hopper draws votes, he may be linking us to the ways of doubtful integrity of the current ruling crowd in the USA, a crowd which Nigel Farage has spent much time cosying up to over the years.
For my part, I’d sooner have an honest British flavour to our local government.
John Tippler
Spalding
