Incompetent Labour living in a fantasy world ...

If you want proof that the Labour party in Copeland is so complacent and out of touch that they might as well be on another planet, you need look no further than the "Environment" section of their manifesto for the current council election campaign.

One entire side of the leaflet is given over to a long list of things which, in the fantasy world inhabited by local Labour politicians, Labour controlled Copeland Council has achieved.

Actually, many of them have nothing whatsoever to do with Copeland council. But surely any political party which was even minimally competent would make sure all the things they were boasting of as achievements were actually true?

Could any major political party possibly be silly enough to put an election leaflet round claiming credit for an "achievement" which every reasonably well informed person in the area knows has just been abandoned ?

Yes, Copeland Labour party is that silly. The first item in their "Environment" list boasts of having obtained "Yellow Flag" quality beach status for Copeland's beaches.

There is one slight problem with this claim. In Labour's fantasy world, our beaches may have yellow flag status. But in the real world which most Copeland residents live in, the four local beaches in Copeland which were entitled to fly "Quality Beach" flags last year have just lost that right - because Copeland Council missed the deadline to apply this year.

This isn't exactly a secret; a couple of weeks ago there was a large article in the local press about it, and the Whitehaven News wrote a leader item criticising the low priority given to the issue by Copeland council. So it would appear that the local Labour party who are supposedly running the council can't be bothered either to ask their officers what they're doing or to read stories which are splashed all over the local paper.

Residents are entitled to ask what this tells us about how Labour run the council. And you might also like to bear in mind before you vote: if Labour are too incompetent to check their facts either with their own officers or even against the local newspapers, how many other things in their election manifesto are nonsense?

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