Owen Temple

Liberal Democrat District and County Councillor for Consett North and campaigner in Consett, Blackhill & Shotley Bridge

“Have you heard what he’s doing now?”

I understand these words were overheard at the Civic Centre.

Apparently another political party is upset that the team and I hand delivered 1,500 letters to postal voters over the weekend, urging them to cast their vote for the Liberal Democrats. Don’t we realise that these are “their” voters?

Personally I’m just hoping that three years ago we saw the last election in County Durham where the votes could be “counted on” before they were actually counted. The sooner all political parties learn that votes have to be earned, the sooner we will get local government that responds to people’s needs.

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