There are people who serve a town and people who belong to it. Tommy Beattie has always been the second kind.
For longer than most of us can properly account for, Tommy has carried Corby's interests as though they were his own, because, in every way that matters, they were. He led Corby Borough Council at a time when leadership meant standing for a town that the rest of the country had too often written off, and he did it without ever losing the instincts that brought him into the movement in the first place; that ordinary people deserve a voice, that institutions exist to serve communities and not the other way round and that politics, done properly, is just another form of solidarity.
For longer than most of us can properly account for, Tommy has carried Corby's interests as though they were his own, because, in every way that matters, they were. He led Corby Borough Council at a time when leadership meant standing for a town that the rest of the country had too often written off, and he did it without ever losing the instincts that brought him into the movement in the first place; that ordinary people deserve a voice, that institutions exist to serve communities and not the other way round and that politics, done properly, is just another form of solidarity.
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