WE DESERVE BETTER

I’VE been voting in general elections and local elections for 54 years and in all that time only one person has ever knocked on my door and asked for my vote, and that was in the 2002 local elections.

I promised the man that he’d have my vote if nobody else knocked on my door, asking for my vote.

Nobody did so he got my vote and he was elected.

He turned out to be a decent Labour councillor, at that period, but sadly over the coming years he’s stood as a Conservative councillor, as a UKIP councillor and as an Independent councillor.

I believe he had good intentions in 2002, but over the preceding years he lost his original intentions.

That was Malcolm Pritchard.

At this year’s local elections I received a leaflet from only one of the three parties standing.

With this kind of attitude is it any wonder that the turnout is round about 32/34%? People are losing confidence in the people in power in Hyndburn with what has been going on with the bickering that seems to have been going on within the Labour Party.

With councillors being paid expenses to turn up at meetings, but don’t turn up.

Then we have the lies and corruption with members of the Conservative Government, with a member in the Commons chamber watching porn on his phone.

I believe that today the people of this country deserve better from their elected representatives, who seem to believe that once they have got the people’s vote, they no longer matter, and they can do what they want.

If politics isn’t cleaned up then this country is on the slippy slope to becoming like a third world country.

The sad part is who will take the first steps and start to clean up their own party first without throwing abuse and accusations at the other parties.

At Prime Minister’s Question Time, they behave and act like spoiled brats. This kind of message should show today’s younger generation, on how not to behave, would be a good starting point.

A.P. Moxham Harwood bar, Great Harwood