Lee Anderson column: Nottinghamshire leads the nation for most major road repairs
We at Reform UK promised that if elected to the couny council last year, we would fix our broken roads in Nottinghamshire.
We are delivering on that promise.
Nottinghamshire Council is fixing 1.5 m square metres of road surface this year.
That is more road repairs than any other county authority in England.
This is part of Nottinghamshire's record-breaking £182.5m investment package to improve our highways.
To help put that figure into perspective, the highways budget for the previous financial year set by the Tories before last years' local elections was just £72.7m.
Reform UK is taking an entirely different approach to fixing potholes than the parties that came before.
Previous Labour and Tory administrations left a lack of funding for road maintenance, resulting in hundreds of road surfaces going unrepaired for some time, creating a huge backlog.
Reform UK has implemented a much more proactive strategy.
We are fixing potholes properly the first time around, hiring two JCB Pothole Pros that are fixing potholes up to six times faster than traditional methods.
We now have hotbox crews working all year round and we have an extensive 12-month programme of works.
The neglect we are used to with our roads has officially ended.
Work since April has seen 152 surfacing schemes completed, more than 56 miles of road resurfaced, 150 miles of surface dressing, the use of different equipment, materials and repair methods to make right first time, permanent road repairs and 44 schemes covering carriageways, footways, drainage and bridges already completed.
We are leading the country in Nottinghamshire on road maintenance.
Unlike the other political parties, when we make promises to residents, we keep them.
This is what Reform UK can do in action.
Last week, I wrote about Andy Burnham's decision to give mayors unlimited powers to introduce the tourist tax and East Midlands Mayor Claire Ward's declaration that she is looking forward to introducing this new tax in Nottinghamshire & Derbyshire.
It has since been reported that asylum seekers living in hotels will be exempt from paying the tourist tax.
The Government says this is because the asylum hotels are 'temporary accommodation'.
But, by definition, anyone staying in any hotel or Air B&B is also using it as 'temporary accommodation', and yet everyone else will still have to pay it.
It appears that we now have two-tier taxes in Burnham's Britain.