Really?!!!
Only six weeks ago the same Mr Akker (who has previously been a nationally known campaigner for the Labour Party) had a letter published in both the Colchester Gazette and County Standard personally attacking me for even suggesting, in a letter the previous week, that Keir Starmer’s promise to put a “bulldozer through” our existing planning laws and stop local councils preventing major developments - posed a threat to Mersea and Pyefleet villages.
I notice his latest letter doesn’t actually say he’s opposed to Labour’s plans to remove local council’s powers to stop major developments – merely that he hopes they won’t build them here!
So, perhaps Mr Akker can be a little clearer and say whether or not he has now done a U turn – and is now opposed to the Labour Party’s proposed changes to our planning laws.
Dr Martin Parsons
Conservative candidate for Mersea and Pyefleet ward