Tales about all the wonders they’ve worked and
promises to work more wonders and miracles… Quite
frankly, anyone listening to all of this coming out of their mouths might ask
whether they themselves have gone mad or whether it’s the Liberal Democrats,
who like the Greeks have simply lost it! Or maybe it isn’t like that at all.
The Greek Government knows it can’t pay the Germans a penny and the whole
population is deep in the shit so whatever they say or whatever they do it
won’t make a difference! In which case why not simply go on saying anything
when nothing actually matters and furthermore there’s nothing that anyone can
actually do! Right now it’s exactly the same with the Lib-Dems. They’re
endlessly talking up their record in Government to the electorate, asking for
understanding and sympathy while making more and more promises like the lying
toe-rags they are, knowing that none of
it matters. For five years they threw in their lot with the Tories voting
for welfare and benefits cuts and there’s nothing they can do now except come
out with bullshit, trying to justify their conduct and spend all their time
talking it up, down or sideways!
It’s like
listening to some old French tart on a gramophone record. She’s got nothing to
regret and will keep on opening her legs all over again. Some kind of promise
that is! Keep on giving people another dose of the clap and all self righteous that
she’s making a difference and would you believe it, promising to protect the
NHS at the same time. And for that you’ve really got to have nerve. That’s the
message, the promise of integrity that the Liberal Democrats are coming out
with daily, nationally and all over the board. Trouble is, too many people
already believed in virgins and fairies and went down with a dose like the jobseekers,
the poor and the students and what the Germans think of the Greeks is the same
that British people now think of those old talk it up tarts wearing orange.
They’re so far down in the polls that every time they open their mouths you
can’t help smelling the rot.
Let me give you
a current example of such Liberal Democrat electioneering promises made at the
local level of politics. The Party has long controlled Bath & North East
Somerset Council and one of their recent manifestos leaflets,
Bath’s traffic… We all know the problems tells its own story, or does
it? It was printed in response to endless complaints from angry motorists in
and around Bath and throughout much of the area. Over the last eighteen months they’ve
experienced an endless series of catastrophic road-works instigated by the
Liberal Democrat controlled authority which have enormously added to the
already existing and quite frankly needless congestion. Two of these schemes
incorporate so-called fancy pavement improvement in an effort to give the
respective areas what might best be described as a more green villagey character. In one of these, a
major transportation conduit, the works, already extensive and causing
staggering traffic chaos throughout the day were suspended when the builders
used by the Council declared themselves bankrupt. Since then, all building
activity incorporating various roads and pavement ‘improvement’ has been
virtually abandoned resulting in astounding traffic chaos to a wide southern
area of the City.
Along the London
Road, leading to the M4 Motorway and the old A4 road to London, the Council’s
road widening and fancy pavements scheme has been running for many months with
no end in sight. If it wasn’t already plain bad getting into the City from the
east because one of the two available lanes was given over to infrequent taxis
and buses, the entire area has now become a staggering rat run of cones which
keeps extending along both sides with no foreseeable end in sight. For over a
year sanity has been dumped down the tubes with businesses along the road
suffering devastating loss. But that’s nothing compared to the general loss of
trade by shops throughout the City. In the last year what may best be described
as FLASH-WORKS
have appeared just about everywhere. “It’s like going to bed at night and waking up and finding the street
you live in suddenly dug up and everywhere surrounded with fencing, and workmen
with digging machines causing traffic chaos that’s never been there before,”
is how one resident described it to me.
These
FLASH-WORKS and the suddenness with which they appear have been an astonishing
experience for the motorist. Both for those who live in the City or travel through
it. The traffic chaos over the last year or more has been astounding. What was
initially bad was made far worse by Liberal Democrat council controlled works
over the last eighteen months which, for both motorists and small business has
turned the place into a hell-hole. Alas, that’s not the end of the story! A
main arterial, the A36, leading to Wiltshire has completely disappeared from
use and for how long nobody knows. Or if anyone from the council does they’re
not telling! It’s oh so very Liberal Democrat!
But wait! In
response to all the many complaints, your friendly Lib-Dem team whose new
business rates have all but strangled the life out of most small shops, have
brought out a flash pre-election leaflet telling people how, if re-elected,
they will do away with all Bath’s traffic problems… Making Bath even better…
This is a truly
astonishing document detailing plans build a huge road tunnel under a main
railway line, river and canal just a few miles outside the City together with a
new rail station and giant car park. The scheme is so enormous that it is
comparable to the size of the works needed for the Channel Tunnel. Nothing on
the little map illustrating the scheme shows a railway, river or canal in the
vicinity but they’re there all the same! It’s an interesting thought that if
the chaos caused by the roadwork schemes elsewhere are anything to go by along
with the time spent, the effect of this new Lib-Dem proposal would be to stuff
up the entire City and take at least twenty years to complete. It might even
mean ending much of the use of road transport throughout the City itself and
its suburbs.
The Liberal
Democrats who control the Council make their intentions plain. GET
COMMUTER CARS OUT OF BATH their leaflet roars, and in a little inset
they say, ‘The government welcomes the
strategy… Approval from Westminster for our plans (November 2014)’
Just a brief
word about this. There’s a big difference between the government welcoming the strategy and approving it. Alas for the Liberal
Democrats no formal approval for the scheme was ever given, mainly because of
cost and furthermore the original plan they submitted NEVER INCLUDED A TUNNEL
UNDER A RAILWAY LINE, RIVER AND CANAL SO IMPLYING IT DID IS SLIMY IF BEST AND
PLAIN UNTRUTHFUL!
But never mind
that. The Liberal Democrats of Bath as with Liberal Democrats everywhere are at
their most friendly when it comes to supporting cyclists who most motorists in
Bath regard as rats on two wheels. Here is a list of their new cyclist friendly
intentions
We aim to spend
10% of the Highways budget to support cycling.
We will
introduce cycle traffic lights to give cyclists a head start.
We will
encourage bus companies to fit racks to carry cycles up hills.
We will review
junctions to make them more cycle friendly.
As stated in a
previous post, BICYCLE FIENDS, cyclists in Bath rule its streets and
pavements, jumping the town’s traffic lights with impunity and thinking nothing
of knocking over and abusing pedestrians, yet they are thought by the
nimby-namby Lib-Dems to give the town greenness and character!
The road traffic
scheme these Greeky Liberal Democrats intend for Bath is verging on madness. It
would cost hundreds of millions, money that can’t be obtained from central
Government funding and which the council they run doesn’t have. Apart from the
little problem of finance, given the slower than snail’s pace progress of current
road-works in the City, regarded by most of its residents as a very sick joke,
the time scale is likely to be run into decades. As someone recently said, they’ll be at in for the grandkids to see…
At the back of
the leaflet there’s a photo of the ex Lib-Dem MP Don Foster with his arm on the
candidate’s shoulder, both of them looking into the camera like something out
of the film Total Recall with the evil administrator of Mars and his buddy,
Hauser, Arnold Schwarzenegger in the movie. If you know the film and then see
the photo you’ll know what I mean! Under it are the words spoken by the former
MP…
‘These schemes will make our city a much better place
and Steve knows how to get the money for them out of the government.’
Some boast!
Especially as the candidate has never had anything to do with government before
yet is said to know how to get hundreds of millions out of Labour or the
Tories. Well for this completely mad Liberal Democrat promise to free the City
of Bath of its road traffic chaos with such a scheme, all he’s ever likely to
get is a resounding kick in the butt. Thinking they could assuage the fury of
Bath’s motorists before the General Election with this kind of thing, the
Liberal Democrats rushed it out hoping it might win them back a few votes and
maybe save them losing control of the council. The scheme however is mad, its
costing unspecified and its technical complications simply unstated. Yet there
it is. A leaflet with a crazy little map and full of clever little photos of
what the Liberal Democrats think makes people happy. Of course it’s nothing
new. It was first proposed ten years or more back and abandoned as totally
impractical. And now it’s been rushed out all over again with Bath’s skanky
Lib-Dems hoping to save face for all the wretched traffic chaos they’ve caused.
It’s like a
Greek kind of promise, but then as I said earlier, it’s a very Greek kind of
thing! Those whom the Gods seek to destroy they first send mad… and
this is clearly the way the Party is heading, not only in Bath but all over the
country. They can make promises, any old promises, till they’re blue in the
face but people know these clapped out political tarts for what they are.
They’ll do anything… say anything to keep hold of power and that’s the most
terrible thing really. They honestly believe that they’re the best guys in town
and what makes it worse is that there are people around who actually believe
them.
Now how sad is
that!
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