East Worthing and Shoreham Labour Party

Time for a Change

....is the seemingly irresistable cry against Governments and Administrations that have been in place longer than people's attention spans. For Her Majesty's Loyal Opposition, this is the sole remaining spar to cling to from the shipwreck of their ‘policies’ in the hurrican sweeping the world economies. 

In East Worthing and Shoreham, however, it certainly is time for a change, since here the Conservative Party's misrule and pernicious influence has survived a hundred long years. If by misfortune they succeed in winning a general election, a study of this living fossil that runs our region will tell much about the fate in store for our nation. Tim Loughton's parliamentary brief is for Children, though his prime concern is more for publicity and photo-ops.  He heads a local political machine that has steadily asset stripped, racked up rents, flogged off irreplaceable community facilities, whose ridiculously over the top ‘Rennaissance Plan’ has blighted the area with boarded up, decaying buildings, throttled community transport, refused to impliment government initiatives for over 60s swimming, complains bitterly about free bus travel even when it is fully funded, and whose culture focuses solely on cost and not on benefit. Meanwhile, the would-be Minister for Children sidles shiftily away from Fishersgate where the long-promised, desperately needed, always delayed, Children's Centre is being gutted of its wrap around child care. This is Loughton's problem (and ours): he'll preen and do good outrage in the House of Commons on headline issues like sub-postoffices and hospitals, but he won't roll up his sleeves and get dirty with the issues that define the lives of the most needy and deprived.