Judging by the patterns of newspaper consumption still favoured, notwithstanding recent price increases, at my local shop, I can’t imagine many local residents will have seen the recent publicity the town received in one more liberal section of the national media. I am afraid it does not reflect well on us.
The stubborn inability of local Johnson loyalists to accept any criticism of their messiah is not the principal concern; it might in fact be suggested that this contrasts favourably with the reaction to national events of local party leaders, who will clearly sycophantically rush to support whoever the party crowns next.
The implication that the presence of shops catering for eastern Europe customers in the town represent a decline is lamentable. This is syncopated against a boast about the extent of the region’s participation in national food production. Well who do people think is actually doing all that work if not the customers of these shops? While lamentable, however, the existence of that hypocrisy is nothing new and no surprise.
The most worrying part of the publicity however comprises the griping that the area does not have access to additional special funding. Surely an explanation for this rests in the area’s enduring loyalty to the ruling party.
If we are always going to vote one way, what incentive does this government (or indeed any conceivable government) have to placate our concerns? All we are doing is providing them with an incentive to take us for granted.
The area’s blind loyalty to the Tories is not only objectionable on grounds of principle, it is also irrational from a self-interested point of view.
G Kent
Spalding
