By Luke Spillman
Of the Thurrock Independent Party
Cllr for Aveley and Uplands
I”M past caring hearing about the things politicians are against. All I care about is what we can work together on to make things better for all.
It’s about time people from all sides of the political spectrum stopped being anti-other parts of our community and focused on the real change that would solve most of the problems in our society. Everyday there seems to be another story of some group being anti-British history/culture, anti-wealth creation, anti-Christian, anti-Jewish, anti-Islam, anti-white, anti-black, anti-women, anti-men, anti-gay, anti-straight etc etc. The list is endless.
We all need to focus on being pro-abolishment of poverty and class inequality. We need a state/private intervention to provide well-paid career opportunities for people across all of our communities. We need to bring forward radical benefit reform to prevent anyone from choosing not to take up these opportunities. If we successfully tackle class inequality, under-employment and subsistence wages we would will find that most examples of inequality and social problems disappear or become entirely manageable.
Let’s get Britain training and working again! Brexit brings immense opportunity. We must put ourselves in a position to seize this opportunity. We must give those struggling the chance to reach their potential whilst providing an environment where entrepreneurs can thrive.
It’s time for the divisive politics of hate, fear and envy to end. It’s time for this country to pull together and thrive as an independent nation. It’s time for the left and right to put away their slavish devotion to ideology and stop hating on each other. This country needs politicians willing to work together to form a negotiated consensus to improve people’s lives.
The focus of politics must be to extend the golden age 50% of the population are experiencing to the 50% who are struggling to make needs meet. Enough of the boring and destructive tribalism please! Let’s work together to create a much better tomorrow for all.
This is just a sanctimonious diatribe from a Councillor who at the time of writing his blog cannot even make up his mind as to which political Party he supports i.e. UKIP or Thurrock Independents. He, along with 3 other ex UKIP Councillors sit in the Council Chamber as unelected Thurrock Independents, whilst at the same time they work for and support Tim Aker a UKIP MEP, who also sits in the Council Chamber as an unelected Thurrock Independent. .If they cannot make up their own minds as to what they should be called, I suggest an apt title would be “Akers’ duplicitous four”. I am told that Mr. Spillman claims he works for and is paid by the European Parliament, if that be so, he is not only guilty of an untruth but also is fantasising about his role
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I believe the sole purpose of the formation of the Thurrock Independents Party was to confuse and hoodwink the electorate in the Local Elections in May 2018. Confuse by hoping that UKIP voters will think they are still UKIP supporters. Hoodwink by more sanctimonious diatribes such as that by Cllr Spillman.
I hope that Thurrock UKIP will fight the election by fielding “genuine” UKIP candidates
I close with the following words for Mr Aker and his duplicitous four; BAH HUMBUGS!
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It sounds like you have gone through life believinbg in black and white, but the reality is the murky world of politics has had more grey bits and probably still has with MP’s cheating expenses, ect.
I am not politically motivated, but for me why do we need political parties, why can we not have individuals voted in who are going to do most to support the local community, the parties devote too much time in fighting and what do we get back, a person who is mostly intent on filling their boots and getting the best out of it for them, you only have to look at our own MP, who demonstrates very well the virtues of being an elected MP, I get the feeling she does very little for the electorate of Thurrock, as she is busy cosying up in Westminster building her political career, which if the voters of Thurrock vote wisely could be over in a blink.