In what is now becoming a monthly regular occurrence with this Conservative government and Council administration the issue of Cliffe Airport has returned with a vengeance.
As this blog has stated countless times - the Conservatives are once again playing games with resident house prices and homes.
We have two-faces.
One lot of Tories ruling out the airport, whilst another lot of Tories rule it in. What a total mess.
It is now clear that Parliament and Central government are open to conversations on future plans on aviation in the South East, and this now (as of four months ago) includes Cliffe Airport (see above).
It is worth reminding readers of the timeline, because this has now gone on longer than under Stephen Byers in the early 2000s.
Is the government playing the long game?
Remember where we were 3 years ago? Tory Mayor Boris Johnson first suggested the idea of an Island Airport in North Kent and Medway Conservatives commuted up to London and helped him win the election on that manifesto commitment.
Remember where we were 2.5 years ago? Boris established a planning committee and actively funded consultations and feasibility studies on the 'Island' airport. Medway Conservatives did nothing.
Remember where we were 1.5 years ago. Medway Conservatives finally funded the cheapest and most ineffective campaign in known Medway campaign history. The 'pie-in-the-sky' poster was, in this blog's mind, kept low-key to ensure victory for Conservative PCCs in the General Election.
Remember where we were 4 months ago. Tory MPs elected and Medway Conservatives are shocked to discover that Cliffe Airport was once again being considered. Tories point to letters and David Cameron statements that there are no 'current plans' for an airport, ignoring the fact that Cameron has bare-faced lied on VAT, on NHS re-organsations, Police cuts and train fare rises.
And now this week we have an aviation report from the Conservatives citing the prospect of an airport in North Kent .
Until Tories stop playing both sides and start to stand up for residents, this issue will come back time and time and time again.
Every single time another notch of public opinion will be notched away as the Conservatives ratchet public opinion towards an airport option.
I do genuinely believe that Peninsula Conservatives oppose the airport. My challenge is their partisan inability to actually oppose this issue in public with visual campaigns for fear that it will harm the electoral prospects. It is placing public interest on the peninsula after the electoral interests of Conservative campaigners and Members of Parliament.
The lack of campaign activity, the poorly funded poster campaign and the fact this issue keeps coming back is proof that the Tories in Medway have failed to get a firm grip, or have any influence in Westminster.
Medway Tories will promise you no airport, but until they have the influence to disband the Parliamentary TEA Group, until they get the influence to sanction the Conservative Party candidate for Mayor to change his stance, until they get they influence to run a proper and funded opposition campaign; this blog along with independent blogs will challenge this total Tory fiction. It is two-faced.
The simple choice on the Peninsula is to actually vote for anyone other then the Conservative candidate and send a message to Boris Johnson that if you want to continue with these plans, we will kick your Party candidates.
Elect someone who will speak as an independent voice against the Conservative government.
Time to make a stand for your community. Do not let the Tories take you for a ride
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