Council meeting
15th December 2009
Last night’s Council meeting saw the usual clumsy, ranting, long winded, motions from the Conservatives. Oh dear they do go on!
Labour’s ‘Sure Start’
A Tory lady put in a motion on Labour’s “Sure Start”. It was utterly misleading and replete with factual ‘errors’ – designed to make it look as though Labour (who created Sure Start) were its enemies. Council threw it out in favour of Adrian’s amendment. Another councillor also put in a (very helpful) amendment condemning the Tory lady’s ’scaremongering’ tactics.
See our posting below on Sure Start - or log onto ‘Sure Start’ in the Tag Cloud on the lower right hand side of this page to read more.
Dangerous dogs
Adrian put a motion calling for stronger controls over the ownership of potentially dangerous dogs. Despite the prevalence of so many uncontrolled, and so many untrained or badly trained, dogs on Wirral the Conservatives didn’t think to offer anything on that subject. But at least they didn’t oppose it.
‘Own goal’ from the defector
But Adrian’s motion on dangerous dogs was carried with no support from defector Denis Knowles. He didn’t support it because he didn’t stay long enough. He left early, before most of the Council’s business was voted on.
Before Denis’s slipped away early he did, however, make time for another ill-informed swipe at Adrian.
Heaven knows who’s advising him! Last week it was name-calling (Adrian being labelled ‘Old Greybeard’ who is allegedly ‘looking ill’ in one of Denis’s publications!). This week he announced in Council (with all the court-room gravitas of an American ’soap’ lawyer) that Adrian was not mentioned in the Charteris report. Wow! What a discovery. And what did he want his listeners to infer from that melodramatically announced pearl? Had he been alert at the Area Forum meetings he would have recalled that this question has already been answered.
Yet another 'own goal'?
Forgive the mixed metaphor Denis, but you’ve shot yourself in the foot yet again with another ’own goal’. Has nobody told you it’s entirely up to Sue Charteris to include, or leave out, whatever she likes?
But what is this really about?
Is it sour grapes because when Adrian was making a coherent case, in writing, to maintain Seacombe Library and Guinea Gap Baths, you uttered not a word to show any wish to retain these services?
Is it so very convenient for you to now erase from your memory the contradiction that you were busy declaring publicly that losing both Seacombe Library and Guinea Gap Baths would be ‘For the greater good’?
Meanwhile readers wishing to read up on all of the decisions made in Council can go direct to the Council’s website http://www.wirral.gov.uk for further information.
What a shame when we voted for Denis Knowles to be a councillior we expect him to represent those who entrusted him with that obligation.
Councillors should not play silly games of one-up-man-ship, only a fool wouldn’t recognise hind sight has 20/20 vision.and such petty actions serves no purpose other than to promote discord.
While his current politcal view seems nothing short of poles apart from the one he was elected on, he still represents the community of this ward.
IT IS TRUE THAT HE REMAINS (LEGALLY) A COUNCILLOR. BUT UNLESS HE SUBMITS HIMSELF TO THE WILL OF THE ELECTORATE CAN HE HAVE ANY CREDIBILITY? OUR VIEW IS THAT HE SHOULD HAVE THE COURAGE OF HIS CONVICTIONS; HIS CONVICTIONS HAVE CHANGED BUT HE REMAINS ON THE COUNCIL WITH NEVER A SINGLE TORY VOTE HAVING BEEN CAST FOR HIM.