Well I’ve had more than 24 hours now to calm down after the
Council meeting and try and suspend my incredulity at the actions of the Labour
group in relation to the paddling pool.
I have been at this business for quite a while now and
little surprises me with regard to their arrogance and pig headedness in RCT
but even I was staggered by the sheer overwhelming stupidity and ignorance theydisplayed.
The 2077 people who voted to save the paddling pool are to
be completely ignored. They are not
going to think about it, or reconsider their options, or hold a meeting to
explain why they feel keeping it is not an option. They are not even going to pretend to do
so. No, this bunch of self-satisfied,
egotistic idiots are not even going to pretend to listen, or that they
care.
Just how stupid are they?
Or is this just another example of the over confidence that comes from
being in an area where traditionally the public vote for a donkey with a red
rosette on? As they keep saying over and
over at every meeting, they were returned in May with an overwhelming majority with
60 out of 75 Councillors in RCT. They
can do what they like, and they will.
On the other hand, Owen Smith MP should, you would think, be
looking at that number and wondering what on earth his Council colleagues are playing
at. Those 2077 people are almost all in
his constituency (not quite all of course as Cilfynydd and Glyncoch are in the
Cynon constituency) and they don’t have quite as long to forget before the
Westminster elections.
The paddling pool fight is not over by any means, if
anything the people who have been in touch with me by phone, email and facebook
are now even more determined. The
Labour party keep saying this is all down to us, the ‘Lib Dems’ stirring. As I have said before we are more than happy
to take our fair share of the credit / blame whichever way you want to look at
it. But those 2077 people weren’t all
politically motivated not by a long way.
In fact many of them I spoke to were Labour supporters – or used to be.
Democracy may appear to be well and truly dead in Rhondda Cynon Taff at
the moment, but have no fear, we will be doing our utmost to restore it. They don’t get rid of us that easily as they
should have learned by now, and they won’t get rid of the members of the public
who think they are wrong to remove the paddling pool.
4 comments:
Labour argued that it was a political stunt, they had a point as nearly every press release was the RCT Lib dems say this the RCT Lib dems say that, every other word RCT Lib Dems, you played into their hands, shows lack of any sense upstairs.
However RCT Labour are no better, if that what the public wants then so be it, they should find the money, how about cutting 5 cabinet members for a start, 100k a yr straight away
Nick we never hid the fact that we were part of the campaign, that we provided campaign advice and suggested the community poll. We also publicised it and procided and paid for the leaflets. But it was much bigger than us. If I am putting out a press release of course I am going to do it form us. Others could have done the same. There ws never any pretence involved her, but people became involved and voted because of the issue not because of us.
part of the campaign, the way it was put across was that it was a lib dem campaign &it was more of a 'look what labour are doing' rather than save the paddling pool.
However they did tell a few porkies before the election but again making a big thing of this doesn't do you any good..............tuition fees?
anyway got to shoot off to Newbridge for the match
Labour are the ones doing it that is why.
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