POLITICAL COMMENT - Sussex Mayor elections delayed until 2028 : Candidate Ajit Chambers' thoughts
Following the government's decision to delay elections for a Sussex Mayor from 2026 to 2028 we have invited all the candidates who have currently put themselves forward to contribute a comment of 350-400 words. This is the article by Ajit Chambers.
My answer:
Only now are even the most entrenched office workers lifting their heads from the sand and suggesting that the UK Government is treating its citizens with contempt and disdain.
The Goat Rodeo continues (feel free to Google it) as the nation’s highest officials still fail to grasp the basics—energy pricing, roadwork contracts, rehabilitating the NHS.
So, what’s really going on?
The pretext to our situation:
1. Across the country the old motto “I’m alright, Jack” has finally caused the lights to flicker.
Multiple houses, Luxury German cars, endless holidays—while everyone zombie chants, “people are more important than things”— has left no one actually 'doing the doing'.
Instead, our primary workforce creates paperwork.
2. Our financial districts—after laundering the world’s money for decades—are now trying to trip up their own clients, prove them guilty, and keep the cash.
3. The margin has been called and the music has stopped. The simplest tasks—booking a hospital appointment, fixing a road, finding an MP who hasn’t lied or cheated—are impossible without hearing an excuse.
And now, my answer: Why has the election been delayed?
Because the school bullies are rearranging themselves to take all the positions—and reserve a few for their friends. The dinner parties have begun. Society is showing its real face.
In the coming weeks, the food chain of press and pundits will pretend to question it. Then the political parties will begin offering excuses of their own.
Two final notes - each with a question;
1. In history, when police commissioners or military figures begin moving into politics, the result tends to be a military state or a dictatorship. Are you going to allow this?
2. The UK is now like a sunken ship settled on the seabed. The holes punched through its hull—each one made as a school bully climbed the ladder—are still wide open to the sea.
My question to you is: Who will you choose to patch those holes before the next government attempts to refloat this thing? Will you choose a party or a person who works for ALL parties.