• THE scientific genius Albert Einstein once said that; “We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them”.

This could be applied whenever we are faced with a choice of action and particularly to the local elections on Thursday May 3.

Can we afford to wait until our air becomes so toxic that the Tories privatise clean air and appoint a crony company to sell us masks?

Do we need more Tory institutionalised racism as now appearing in regard to the Windrush generation of immigrants, or another Garden Bridge that don’t get built yet costs the taxpayer £46million in “consultants’”and “advisers’” fees’?

How many more of Labour’s sham community consultations will there be that benefit developers over the poorly consulted and where planning systems override local concerns to reduce promised affordable housing? How many more empty high-rise apartment blocks do we need while homeless people sleep and die on our streets?

The tribal repetition that it is the government’s entire fault is a sign of supine weakness and our communities deserve better. Similarly there is an inherent danger when local government action is muted by national parties’ policies.

The HS2 fiasco is a case in point having been promoted by Labour peer, the Baron of Camden Town, Lord Adonis, who, we have been told was paid £950 a day by the HS2 executive to promote his pet project. HS2 was initiated by Labour and continued by the Tories.

So where is the Town Hall’s effective representation of the thousands of local people (and even more beyond) who are against its imposition and that Lord Adonis consistently refused to meet with?

Despite the government’s revised budget increasing by 40 per cent to £56billion, the trashing of the environment and the misery it will inflict on Camden residents for next decade, the Town Hall has fallen silent.

So, who is going to stand up to the Tory and Labour enabled rip off corporate developers? Well it’s unlikely to be the Lib Dems whose collaboration with the Tories brought us; austerity, a broken society, and as Labour’s Sir Keir Starmer MP recently inferred, the tragedy that is Brexit.

Returning to Albert Einstein’s theory of problem-solving; on May 3 electors can vote as before and get the results outlined above, or select pro remain Green Party councillors that will openly speak truth to power and press for people based policies that won’t cost the earth.

I urge people to recycle the past the sell by date, over packaged and over processed offers of the main parties and select vibrant, revitalising and people-focused Green ones in their place.

TREVOR O’FARRELL
Green Party candidate Cantelowes ward