THIS MORNING’S LOCAL ELECTION RESULTS set a defining moment in Canvey Island’s, and perhaps England’s, political history. Its home-grown Canvey Island Independent Party (CIIP) has successfully demonstrated that it is perfectly possible to gain, and retain, political power based upon a strategy of deceit, misrepresentation, secrecy – and attempting to discredit opponents at every opportunity.
By a significant majority, islanders voted to retain their CIIP representatives, throw good money after bad, and pursue the only aim that the Canvey Island Independence Party stood for in these elections: complete political separation from the mainland.
Mother Canvey decided not to rebuke her aberrant children; but has instead made clear to them that, if their current Wendy house is proving too small for them and their friends, Father Canvey will ensure that they are given a much larger tree house from which to conduct their games.
And, while this Blog’s readers look on with disbelief, the CIIP lowers the island’s portcullis and raises its drawbridge.
Over the next four years, we can confidently expect the CIIP to complain bitterly that their plans for the island’s mainland separation have, unfortunately, been blocked at every turn – and that mainland Tories are to blame. And, this autumn, when the Localism Bill comes into force, and Dave Blackwell’s ‘new Town Council powers’ do not materialise, the CIIP will no doubt claim that as a Tory conspiracy too.
And islanders, it seems, despite all the evidence, will just go on believing what they are told by their mischievous, example setting, siblings…
… Canvey Island may not be Scotland; but many of its Independence issues are much the same: http://tinyurl.com/6ye8c9k.
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