I have become disappointed and disillusioned with politics at several levels. At national level politicians are not willing to answer straight questions, the ones that require yes/no answers when the interviewer asks one. They try and avoid the question, give obscure, long winded answers to a question that wasn’t asked, repeat the party line(s) too often and don’t have the savvy to change the wording. By doing so they betray trust and integrity. It is the reason why people don’t trust any politician from any party.
At local level, nothing much is happening campaign wise or social wise. J.B. is meant to be a “ward champion”. That means she is responsible for arranging canvass sessions, delivery sessions, social meetings with members in her ward. But she is not doing that. We discussed a resident survey back in January – still no sign of it, 6 months and counting wasted. She believe that putting stuff on Facebook groups is campaigning. She writes long winded, dull but worthy letters to The Editor of the local newspaper.
But these letters don’t work on websites nor will they work on Focus leaflets. Both need short stories with photos.
We have a former parliamentary candidate busy trying to get himself on a regional list for next year when the local party will no longer be part of that region. We won’t be able to offer him any assistance.
I am no longer inclined to help out and am standing down as Convenor at the end of the year. My future involvement will be limited to a few technical things in Connect and the website but will happily hand over both to someone else. As for organising anything, I won’t. I will be quite happy to ignore things.