Obviously councillor Sahota believes the fable (as taught by Wrekin Labour Group) that all rural areas are filled with rich people, that Newport, Wellington and the surrounding villages are populated by families who own three 4×4 cars each and who all have at least one luxury swimming pool.

The truth is that rural poverty is a very real concern. Well, a real concern everywhere but in the Wrekin Labour Group, which seem to be set in aspic, a 1930s museum piece “Toffs v the poor” in which the world is made up of honest miners and factory workers v the evil boss class aided and abetted by the rich landed gentry and their supine yeomen.

In reality, parts of Newport and Wellington and the villages in the Borough are very poor. People on low incomes there suffer just as much as someone on a low income in -for example- Malinslee. Worse, as there often are no buses to enable them to access the cheap supermarkets that the urban poor have reasonably ready access to.

It’s not the fault of the rural poor and the poor of Newport and Wellington that they were, from 1973/74 onwards the forgotten people of the area, with little or no money spent on their services, with sports and community facilities closed down whilst urban Telford got all the cream. That fault rests on the shoulders of the members of Wrekin Labour Group who, through the decades, ignored the needs of the rural poor. Shame on them all!

The balance is being redressed a little. As it should be. The poor of the rural parts of the borough have suffered inequality for long enough without councillor Sahota calling for this blatant inequality (institutionalised when his party was in power!) to be re-introduced. Enough is enough!

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Sorry – no play area for you lot…the Council are too busy lining their own pockets with fat expense accounts and wage rises to worry about you.

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