Testing Them Out.

I was in the pub yesterday afternoon when one of the assistants to the prospective Conservative parliamentary candidate for this constituency, Mel Stride came in and asked whether anyone had any issues that we wanted Mr Stride to take up. The issue of the double yellow lines in Fore Street was raised and I raised the issue of the unsuitability of our main access route along Upexe Lane for the volume of traffic it now has to carry. Whilst I am by no means a supporter of the Conservative party and certainly will not be voting for Mel Stride I think it has to be recognised that he will almost certainly be our MP within the next twelve months. That being the case, if the Tory party now are expressing a wish to take up local issues we should be testing them out as regards the strengh of their real committment. If people are approached by Mr Stride I would urge them to make sure that our future MP is fully aware of the issues that concern the village and that people will have no hesitation in following up what progress he has made in resolving issues raised.

He could of course, also read this blog as an indication of what concerns Silverton.