Everyone's out of step but

us, is new BBI mantra

The Boston Bypass Independents seem to have little to chortle about as the campaigning for the May 5th elections goes on.
And it seems that whenever they try, their efforts fall flat.
Recent pieces on their blog comprise a three way assault on their opponents.
The attack on the Conservatives, who have been in discussion with their counterparts in South Holland District Council on “future partnership and closer working relationships” should the Tories take control of Boston, interprets that explanation as being the thin end of a wedge that will see Spalding taking over the running of Boston.
“The leader of Spalding is very ambitious and he sees the potentially weak leadership that could end up trying to run Boston Borough Council as a means of extending his own ‘empire,’ warbles Blogger Number Two.
”Full marks to him, but ‘nul points’ to Boston Tory leaders who don’t realize (sic) their limitations and think that they are being flattered!”
We wonder what the leader of ELDC would make of that!
And the piece concludes “Well folks, do you want Boston to effectively lose its sovereignty and become an annexe of Spalding? It’s your choice.”
Moving on to Labour’s manifesto, the rant underlines its inflated sense of its own importance by saying “For a start they don’t even know the name of BBI!”
Well, that it, then – they won’t get our vote!
Moving to things that really matter, the diatribe claims that of Labour’s top ten aims, eight of them are nothing to do with a district and that because they have insufficient
candidates to form an administration “they can promise the earth, or though (sic) they would certainly bankrupt the council if they got their way.”
The English Democrats also get a BBI tongue-lashing.
“There’s nothing democratic about this lot! No-one is allowed to use a certain term when describing them but it’s one for all and all for one, as long as you are English.”
The BBI’s blogger invites us to “read the literature - beautifully presented, but far too literate to have been scripted by any of our lot.”
Donning his clerical robes for some inexplicable reason, Blogger Number Two intones: “Dearly beloved, do not be fooled by the group of young (and not so young) men (I won’t call them gentlemen) who have burst on the local scene. They are new generation BNP, right here in Boston. What is more, delve into the names and they all lead in a certain direction.
“Some of you have been fooled once by BNP, surely you’re not going to fall for that one again? How much did that achieve for those of you who elected them last time? Absolutely nothing, I expect.”
Sensibly, the BBI diatribes seem to have spared the considerable number of candidates standing as genuine independents – perhaps having a snipe at them might prove a little awkward, given the BBI claims also to be independent.
So – it seems that all roads lead to a vote for the BBI – even though none of them remotely resembles a bypass.
The trouble is that it’s easy to shoot other party efforts down in flames when you have none of your own to offer – and as we have said before, the offerings from the BBI landing on our doormats make much of the group’s past “achievements” but promise nothing for the next four years.
It seems that the best they can come up with is an indirect attack on the literacy of local people and presenting their own candidates as people who have “really useful skills or life experience” and are able to think for themselves.
As there’s been little evidence of many BBI councillors doing much by way of independent thinking over the last four years we wonder whether this latter promise constitutes the party’s one and only change of policy!

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