How many Conservatives does it take to fill a pothole?urrey has 11 Tory MPs and 58 Councillors but still Surrey’s roads are some of the worst in Britain, with one estimate suggesting some 20,000 potholes needing repair.
A child could work it out, Conservatives can’t…
If small potholes are not repaired quickly, they only get bigger and more expensive to fix. Bigger holes cause bigger damage to the tyres and wheels of cars, motorbikes and cycles…and ultimately more in compensation, a tab they taxpayer, not ‘the council’ has to pick up.
And schoolchildren know this too…
Frozen water expands. When water gets into a badly repaired pothole and freezes, the frozen water expands and breaks up the repair. A fact seemingly lost on Conservative MPs and Councillors. Water alone in a cracked road also accelerates the breakup, as hydraulic pressure from passing traffic forces a bad repair apart.
Conservatives makes us pay out MORE in compensation than the COST of fixing the holes…
'This is the same pothole as in the headline at the top of this article. That first photo was taken on the 16th Jan. Soon after it was badly repaired. Just two weeks later (2nd Feb) it's starting to fail again, as you can see in this second photo'. YOU the Council Tax Payer, are paying for this appalling 'work'.
Just one pothole can result in many compensation claims; far beyond the cost of fixing the hole, which doesn’t seem to bother Conservative Surrey County Council. They’ve paid out fortunes in compensation in recent years.
Road repair contractors are the winners…
Because the Conservative Council doesn’t properly monitor the standard of road repairs, contractors can get away with shoddy repairs - and be called back again and again to fix the same hole. It’s Surrey council tax payers who get the bill.
Meanwhile in Poland…
British taxpayers’ money is being used to fund a huge road building programme in Poland, where the government spends around 50% more than us on roads, despite having a fraction of the traffic. Poland can do this because it receives around £10 billion a year from the EU, much of it British taxpayers’ money. UKIP would stop this nonsense by leaving the EU.
The Conservatives have had their chance…
Conservatives have been running Surrey roads badly for long enough. A UKIP Council would make sure that repairs were swift and as permanent as possible.
Potholes cause damage to cars every 11 minutes but councils are refusing to pay compensation in three out of four cases.
Surrey Comet newspaper reports: 'Surrey tops county list of pothole claims by motorists'
Surrey, worst county in England for potholes, and it's 100% Tory controlled.
Thick Tory w
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The Daily Telegraph January 26th 2015
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