This year I shall break with tradition and name a group as my Twerp of the Year. A drum-roll for the Conservative Group on Tunbridge Wells Borough Council. The Group 'succeeded' in losing control of the council to a motley bunch of Labour, Liberal Democrat and Alliance councillors with an Independent thrown in for good measure. I expect the Tories to lose more seats in May 2022.
What happens then will be interesting. Doubtless squalid secretive negotiations will take place to decide who gets the plum jobs and the policies to be followed. The effect will be that the negotiations will render irrelevant whom an elector votes for should that vote be cast for a non-Tory candidate.
So how is it that the Tories have lost control to this group? Perhaps it was a loss of nerve when a group of local foghorns, social media users amd political chancers united to oppose the theatre proposals. Instead of taking them head-on the Tory Group took the road of appeasement in the hope of saving themselves from losing seats. It hasn't worked. It has been a shambles.
