GOING UP IN SMOKE

New Labour put out a leaflet in Croydon South claiming they opposed the construction of an incinerator on the Croydon-Sutton border. I and Croydon South UKIP Candidate Jeff Bolter hastened to write in to the press to point out that they had in fact supported the EU Landfill Reduction Directive that encourages Councils to reduce bin collections (a bad thing) in order to encourage recycling (a good thing), but that this bill set impossible targets that no Council including Croydon can meet, and then fines them. The result is huge pressure to build incinerators.

This led to a wild counter attack by a Mr Pitt who called myself and my fellow candidates badly briefed and then trashed whatr I thought was a well researched reply as out of context and disingenuous etc, whilst claiming to be politically neutral himself and having no axe to grind, even if he did develop refuse and energy solutions for the third world. Croydon North Green Candidate Shasha Khan promptly rubbished Pitt rather expertly. Another victory, but one shared with Greens, whom I would like to thank.