Hornchurch Jack at Home!

This is me. Chilling out before the election!

The Ugly, the Bad and the Good - It seems that there is to be an election in Hornchurch in the very near future. There's a right crowd of people expected to stand. Socialists, Conservatives, Conservationists, Butchers, UKIPs, Solicitors and other very nice people. And more are expected next week. But the front runner is my Dad. He's standing for the Residents' Association. The RA is very big in Havering. My Dad's also taller than the others (he's 6 foot and a half an inch), but not if Zed the Basket Ball coach stands. The Labour person has been very quiet about John Prescott's proposals to build hundreds of blocks of flats in the area. The locals hate the idea. The MP keeps shtum. He also says that he is not supportive of the Super Casino that Sun Leisure would like to build there. He says 'you can't trust big business', even though they would inject £200 million in to the Borough. I think he should consider what's best for his constituents and cast off his dogma.

The Conservatives' chap is smaller. But no one knows much about him except that he's one of those legal johnnies that charge £190 per hour for talking to you. He lives miles away. He suddenly appeared one day outside Elm Park tube station and the local press took his photograph. Since then, when ever 2 people join together in protest (and there's a photographer) - he's there! Nobody knows where he goes to at night! The Conservatives have got themselves in to a bit of bother locally. During the local elections in 2002 they issued leaflets castigating Labour for closing care homes. They said, 'Our old folk deserve better treatment than this. Conservative councillors have pledged to oppose Labour's cruel cuts!' Now that they're in control, guess what they are planning to do? Two elderly occupants of the Borough's Care Homes that Conservatives are planning to close, aided by the Action Committee's solicitor, are preparing to apply for a Judicial Review. The people in the homes voted Tory because they were told they would be protected. Now they feel they were betrayed. They say that the Conservatives secured their votes under false pretences. It seems that it might have been a dishonest deception. They believed what the Conservatives said. That was unwise. Pinky and Perky can't be trusted. That's why we're all voting for the Residents' Association. That's why we're voting for my Dad - Malvin Brown.