The saga of my attempts to get my
local candidates to reply to my email and give me a straight answer
further continues.
After Friday's blog things have moved
on, but not that far. Today I came home from work (As a nurse I have
to work weekends, and no 9% pay rise for me, unlike MPs) to find an
email from the Conservative candidate, Festus Akinbusoye, but
from the tone of the first paragraph my tweets to him galvanised him
into replying.
That still leaves
the Liberal Democrat candidate, Paul Reynolds,
and the UKIP candidate, Jamie McKenzie,
who haven't even acknowledged that I sent them an email, and the
Labour candidate, Lyn Brown,
who hasn't answered my questions.
21
days since I sent out my email, and only 11 days until the General
Election, and only two candidates have replied to email and only
after a bit of naming and shaming on social media; plus two other
candidates (Andy
Uzoka
of Christian
Peoples Alliance
and Cydatty
Bogie
of Communities
United Party) are completely unreachable. Am I asking too much, are
these candidates ignoring me, or are these candidates so
incompetent/too lazy to reply to me?
The
media tells us that this election is too close to call, so I would
imagine that candidates would be chasing any vote they could get, or
is that only in marginal constituencies?
Drew.
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