People are gullible about local elections

Dawley had a Labour run council for years who did little or nothing to promote the town or make it a better place to live. People vote Labour or Tory without any consideration to what the recipients of their votes will do for them and more often than not the answer is nothing.

When Vic, Helen Williams and I were elected in 2007 we were determined that things would change. Holding the balance of power we got a complete refurbishment of all Dawley’s car parks and High Street. Cleared the pollution that was Poverty Bank and got a complete new senior school as opposed to the tarting up of the old Phoenix promised by Labour.

We furnished the High Street with floral displays funded and tended by us and further funded and organised two very successful lantern parades for the children. We took action to remove drunkenness from the High Street and got the drugs unit which blighted the town moved away. Tawpa councillors used their allowances to pay for good causes or sponsor children. How refreshing is that. We raised thousands of pounds for the British Legion, boy scouts and baptist chapel and were instrumental in saving the social club from closure by the Charities Commission.

Our reward for nearly five years of effort? The voters of Dawley, through social media and word of mouth and distortion of the truth were persuaded by Labour activists that we were really the dreaded Tories and should be removed. They succeeded and some good it has done for Dawley.

The previous inactivity for 40 years under Labour has returned. I can’t say that now it is a large public toilet the Labour Council have shut that down but they did spend money allocated for road safety improvements on new toilets in the refurbished town hall. A town hall initially rescued from extinction by Tawpa councillors because Labour wanted to knock it down.

Vic! Worry not about Dawley it isn’t worth efforts and it wasn’t worth mine.

Adrian Williams, Bratton