Charlie Boy Meynard

You could be left feeling blue!

TOMORROW is polling day – and a dark cloud is looming over Welwyn Hatfield. For there is a real chance that come Friday morning, the make-up of the borough council will be all blue.

The council is currently made up of 35 Conservatives, 10 Labour and three Lib Dem councillors.

And, with the Tories the only party fielding candidates in every one of the 48 seats up for grabs, a ‘bluewash’ cannot be dismissed.

Now don’t get me wrong. This piece isn’t about encouraging you all not to vote Tory.

Indeed, regular readers of my column will know I am strictly fair with all sides.

But my point is, it is not good for democracy if any authority at any level does not have a credible, opposition voice.

For who will challenge the decisions that a party with total domination could, and would, make? (Other than the WHT of course).

But whatever your choice, please, please do go and cast your vote. You’ve only got to look at the election farce in Zimbabwe to realise just how lucky we are to have such a basic democratic right in this country.