Everyone in Castle Point will have heard of Wendy Goodwin, Jackie Govier, Norman Smith, Dave Blackwell, Godfrey Isaacs, Ray Howard and Uncle Tom Cobley.
On May 1 any of these standing for re-election can be booted out at the ballot box if enough people so wish. Good old British Democracy!
But whoever in Castle Point has heard of Slim Kalls, Danuta Hobna, Dalie Grybauskaite, Janez Petocnic, Peter Mandelson?
Oh yes, we've heard of him! These are a few of the 27 European commissioners, each one of whom has more say on what goes on in Castle Point than all our councillors put together. But we can't vote them out because we didn't vote for them in the first place.
Good old EU communism!
Ron Hurrell
Hadleigh Park Avenue
Thundersley
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