
Climate emergency protestors arrive at the Town Hall by boat, but find nowhere to moor it
TOWN HALL SKETCH: Who are we to believe? The last full council meeting until October descended into accusations from politicians of lying (ahh, the sweet irony), while the public’s petitions were re-written for them by council officials, until debate was ended when the Labour leader decided that he wanted to go down the pub.
It was all so much hot air, according to WALTER CRONXITE
We probably all need to have a word with Andrew Fisher, the policy chief in Jeremy Corbyn’s office, who is understood to be the person to have thought it a good idea before the 2017 General Election to get the Labour leader to embrace the works of Percy Bysshe Shelley, and came up with the wholly admirable slogan of “For the many, not the few”.
As slogans go, it’s certainly a whole heap better than “Strong and stable” (oh, how we laughed!), but it has also meant that less capable and less well-read political figures have since been racking their brains, or more likely scouring Wikipedia, for little bon mots to call their own, to provide them with profundity in a soundbyte.
So it is that, last weekend in speeches given in Wandle Park at Croydon Pride and the Mela, Tony Newman was heard to announce his commitment to “Deeds, not words”. As it was coming from Newman, the leader of Labour-controlled Croydon Council, it was immediately rendered into vacuity in a soundbyte.
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