ONE thing no one can deny is that the Tories are world leaders when it comes to bare-faced cheek.

How they have the audacity to shove their propaganda through our doors suggesting they have done anything about the state of the roads is beyond belief.

Through the pages of the SNJ we have been talking about little else for months and when did any of these people who now want our votes get involved in the conversation?

One sheet I received is called Nailsworth and Horsley News – but there is absolutely no mention of the fact that the road between those two places slipped more than two years ago and nothing has been done about it by their Tory-run county council.

The only reason for it slipping in the first place was because their Tory-run county council decided they would save money by not doing any maintenance of our roads, didn’t bother to keep the drains cleaned out so the road was undermined by rainwater.

On the same sheet it claims they are the “party of efficient local government”.

This is the same party that sends a road maintenance gang to repair a pothole, but can’t do another two feet away because it doesn’t have a line painted around it.

When I reported a pothole, one man came and painted a line around it, another came and put some signs by it, another came and photographed it and then eventually a gang repaired it but although the hole was by a drain and the drain being blocked caused the pothole they completely ignored it.

Efficient, my ****.

There’s reference to a local plan.

This would presumably be the local plan that over-rides the decisions of local planners and the concerns of the local community when it comes to housing development.

It talks about affordable housing but just like their MP doesn’t seem to know what affordable means.

He certainly wouldn’t tell me when I asked him.

Is it the same local plan that will force all our local schools to become academies even when there is no need or desire for them to do so.

It sounds like a local plan that won’t involve any local consultation with any one locally that might be affected.

It doesn’t sound very much like local democracy.

Howard Price

Nailsworth