Running the new normal

With the pandemic raging the word on the block is the how our future life will be under the new normal. In Conservative-run Wokingham Borough Council that new normal has taken a nasty anti-democratic twist.

At Annual Council the Conservatives used their in house block vote of 31 Councillors to shoehorn in everything they wanted.

Was every one of the party’s group of block voters supporting as their leader shouted 31 for or against at every opportunity? It’s an interesting thought.

I expect to see the Conservative block vote being used at every opportunity as their dictatorship takes more control in all the councils business.

Democracy gives democrats rights but these rights must be balanced with truth, fairness, openness and honesty and once that is lost democracy as we know it is over.

A system of block voting backed by the Party three line whip under the guise of the new normal is an open indication of goodbye democracy all pretence of democracy is now gone.

Anyone who believes in democracy will see straight through what the Conservatives are doing at Wokingham Borough and that is not to represent all its residents equally but to enforce their own party dogma on all of us.

Its classic Conservative dictatorial dogma ruthlessly imposed on all of us by an uncaring ruling elite. Let's not forget how much they don’t care about us next May. Cllr Gary Cowan, Independent Borough Councillor for Arborfield at Wokingham Borough Council