With the county council elections soon upon us I am hearing assorted comments regarding the local Reform Party candidate who has a reputation for playing pass the parcel in the political sense, as he goes from one political party to another with the latest target in his sights being newly arrived on the scene Reform Party.
This is all well and good but are his motives based upon supposed new, untried headline grabbing political beliefs or just to bolster his ego as the area needs a stable person to represent them, not a self-centred “here today, gone tomorrow” person if his history of political party hopping is anything to judge by over recent years.
Voters are also the taxpayers that need solid, reliable representation but not a self-gratification person until the next party comes along that looks fashionable.
Perhaps the Monster Raving Loony Party have had a narrow escape this time – or have they?
R. A. Andrews
Spalding
Candidates for the county elections are: Crowland: Lisa Collier Brewin, Liberal Democrat; Raymond Balfor Condell, Reform UK; Charlie Alexander Poulter, Green Party; Patrick Joseph Vaughan, Labour Andrew Robert Woolf, Conservative. Donington Rural: Henry John William Bingham, Conservative; Wendy Blackman, Green Party; Leslie Christopher Burke, Labour; Jane Lesley King, Reform UK; Neil Andrew Oakham, Liberal Democrat. Holbeach: Janet Siobhan Nevin Dutton, Green Party; Seb Hague, Liberal Democrat; Mike Horder, Labour; Thomas Edmund Sneath, Reform UK; Clive Turner, Conservative. Holbeach Rural: Paul Stephen Barnes, South Holland Independent; Stephen David Blogg, Liberal Democrat; Neil Carey, Reform UK; Peter Ephraim Coupland, Conservative; Safir Hussain, Labour. Spalding East: Anthony Casson, Conservative; Liz Clews, Liberal Democrat; Rob Gibson, Reform UK; James David Thomas – Labour Spalding Elloe: Martin Christopher Blake, Green Party; Rebecca Longbottom, Labour; Ingrid Helen Sheard, Reform UK; Elizabeth Jane Sneath, Conservative; Jim Snee, Liberal Democrat. Spalding South: Lesley Joan Allinson, Labour; Karen Carless, Liberal Democrat; James Anthony Le Sage, South Holland Independent; Gary John Taylor, Conservative; Phil Webb, Reform UK; Stephen Welton, Green Party.
Spalding West: Stephen George Follett, Labour; Manzur Hasan, Reform UK, Neil Taylor, Liberal Democrat, Heather Julie Irene Violett, Green Party, Janet Brenda Whitbourn, Conservative. The Suttons: Chris Brewis, South Holland Independent, Ray Southam, Liberal Democrat, Jack Tyrrel, Conservative, Robbie Woods, Reform UK.
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