STAYING ON THE FENCE

Brigg Blog is non-political. We just want to make that clear in the run up to the General Election. I know Labour's Ian Cawsey very well - a hard-working constituency MP (Brigg and Goole) with an office in Brigg, and a small majority.
Doubtless we'll get the chance to shake hands with Andrew Percy, the Conservative, at some point before we go to the polls. Many of us will have noticed the pro-Percy signs in the field on Wrawby Road and close to Sherwood Cycles, in Bridge Street. He's also been busy with newsletters, etc, over recent months, extracts from which have been mentioned here on occasions.
We'll have to do a bit of research about the Liberal candidate, from whom we've had no correspondence so far, and also mention the so-called minority parties (as all levels of the press are required to do - even us!). Further posts will advise.
But Brigg Blog will NOT be speaking up in favour of any of the candidates. As regular readers know, we don't have a political agenda, but just report what politicians are doing and the decisions reached as they impact on our town and community.
As a student of history I've long thought this country was best governed during the Second World War when the main parties were forced to put aside their political differences, pool their wisdom and pull together. Winston Churchill (Conservative) was the Prime Minister but with a Labour deputy and a Cabinet comprising the best talent available from all factions. Some of the politicians probably hated it at the time, but it was necessary.
Things soon returned to party political normality once hostilities ended.