Island Echo always welcomes letters to the editor, which may of course not reflect the views of the publication and its staff.
Letter to the editor – 15th January 2025
“The Isle of Wight Council Leader wants the Government to cancel our local elections in May so that he can have politically contentious negotiations about imposing a Mayor on the Isle of Wight, shared with the much bigger local authorities of Hampshire, Southampton and Portsmouth.
“Whether or not people think that a Mayor (another politician) making decisions for the Island is a good thing, I hope we can agree that it is an affront to democracy to postpone our scheduled elections for 12 months to make way for negotiations about an issue on which many people disagree – including our two MPs and Councillors – and without any public consultation.
“I do not believe it is too late to save our democratic right to vote in May. The Leader of the Council, his cabinet and the other Councillors who supported and voted for this 12 month postponement were elected to serve us only until 1st May 2025 – not a day longer. They are responsible and should be held to account if they fail to do the right thing and save our vote.
“That is why I have set up a petition, to send a message to all elected politicians, calling for the local council elections here on the Island to go ahead on 1st May 2025, and I urge residents to sign and share it: www.change.org/p/do-not-cancel-isle-of-wight-council-elections-on-1st-may-2025″
David Allen
Ventnor
Sadly we no longer live in a democracy.
Take Brexit for example people voted to exit
yet the current Government want to take us back in.
We don’t have a say re pensions, nowdays
Governments are classing pensions as a benefit,
how the fcuk is a pension a benefit when we have paid
in for it all our lives.
Personally I don’t have time for any of them, they
only care for themselves and don’t give a fcuk
about anyone else
They only try to be normal at election times, now
they are even postponing the elections because
Labout know they have done more damage in
6 months than any other Government have done in
History
Many of the controlling councillors know they will booted out and will do anything to keep their noses in the trough.
Sadk the lot of them, useless ********