I’m fed up of obfuscating Bollockticians and the ‘Humphrey’s and ‘Bernard’s that pull the bollocktician’s strings. I am fed up of Resident’s Parking being used as a Cash Cow, fed up that vital charities funding is cut while there are local civil servants in SBC that earn more than the Prime Minister! Fed up of ‘secret’ deals like the Digital City WiFi ‘scandal’ (remember Springfield’s MonoRail? ;-). Fed up of SBC not acting to save the Mechanics.
Fed up of Swindon buildings being demolished by a “New Swindon” company without clear plans for using the free space.   No matter what colour bollocktics presides, it always ends up the same with ‘Promises, promises’!

My main reason for standing in Central is to protest about Resident’s parking fees and to get them back to what they should be (for the residents) and to revoke last year’s increases.
I want SBC to cut costs in ‘Parking’ by reducing the ten Parking Attendants allocated to residential zones and not by increasing permit costs. I want to find out the ‘real’ income from parking fines as I don’t believe SBC gets only £163,000 from parking fines. Milton Keynes get over £5million a year in income from parking fines. I am against the unfair parking fees at the hospital (another SBC cash cow) and will fight for fairer fees for patients and visitors.

What might we have in common?Well, I have been fined for parking in front of my house; I don't own a duck house or have a second home, I own a house in Central Swindon. I was made redundant after the Credit Crunch hit and I am a single parent. I was born in Cardiff, and first moved to Swindon in ’89. I have lived in Ford street since ‘95 and I know most of my neighbours. I have never spoken to or met my local councillor or MP. Personally, I admire Clegg and Joanna Lumley for getting long overdue justice for Ghurkhas, but wonder how and why the
Government blocked it twice. I do not admire Bliar or respect Brown for ‘rescuing us’ from the banking crisis as Brown gave free reign to the w bankers in the first place.

What can I promise:Unlike professional bollockticians, I can’t promise anything, except to fight to get Residential Parking back to what it was, to dig and expose anything I find that is not right in SBC, to oppose new house building on greenfield sites just for the sake of it, to regularly litter pick somewhere in Swindon and to be available to help any one in Swindon with a real problem to get their voice heard.
I can promise that every vote I get is not wasted. Every one will be a vote of no confidence in the existing system and will make both local and national bollockticians nervous.
Current polls and voting quotas will put Labour 3rd, but they will get most seats and still be in majority. Is that fair, democratic? Maybe to an MP, but not to me!
The council is mainly answerable to the public only via elections. That was the gist of the reply to Anne Snelgrove’s question about the ‘secret’ Digital City deal to a near-empty House of Commons. I have nothing against Anne, but will supporting Labour or the Conservative really change anything? Show the House of Commons and SBC that your vote DOES count. Help me persuade SBC to make Residential Parking fair and do not tolerate bollocks (old English meaning “nonsense”)