Not a fruitful policy
Lewis Bretts’ actions this year throws away the trust we, the electorate, place in election campaigns. Bretts may have developed an impressive and overridingly popular policy – winning over students with supposedly caring and endearing ideas, set to make the quality of student life in York improve significantly – but actions speak much louder than words.
And in this case, Bretts’ inaction really does speak a thousand words of inadequacy.
Whilst such ideas may have initially won our support, and made us believe in the job Bretts could do, the actual development of his campus career shows us the reality of his conscience.
We understand as students that election campaigns can never realistically materialise immediately. We understand that success and political developments are evolutionary and dynamic.
But Bretts has known for a significant amount of time that his ideas were strictly limited and he failed to communicate this adequately to students. He knew that he would never be able to present to the student population that entrusted him to serve them the ideas he promised.
Essentially, Bretts should have either admitted his mistake or denied the whole shambles. If Bretts admitted his mistake, then he would be more respected for his belated honesty.
His mixed-message response, saturated with ‘maybes’ and ‘can’t really remembers’, smacks of fervent, embarrassed panic. Bretts should come forth and admit his mistake before his reputation is threatened further.
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