Well you know what they say, everything comes to those who wait. Little snippets have now reached my ears regarding a parish council meeting, the one where they appointed members to committees, usually volunteers.
Our top of the poll councillor put her name forward for the Newsletter Group and was promptly told by the chairman that he didn't want her on, didn't get on with her etc., etc. Now I've done a bit of research and according to LinkedIn, our district councillor is shown as a recently retired Communications Manager for Doncaster and Bassetlaw Hospital NHS Foundation Trust. Which means she is vastly over qualified for this particular task and certainly a lot more qualified than the overbearing chairman. Her own Newsletters as the District Councillor are evidence of her skill in this department in getting the message across.
What was more interesting was that in his previous speech (or whatever you want to call it) he blathered on about the new council working together. So after this latter display of vindictiveness, our other top of the poll lady promptly gave him a bit of a bollocking and hopefully told him he was a two faced so and so. I have complete faith that she will truly be a massive thorn in his side and not be too fussed about being too polite in the face of such aggressive behaviour in the future.
Do you remember the parish council's last Newsletter, the one where the
main author (chairman) tried his best to discredit our DC, because he didn't want her to
win the election for either DC or parish council elections. What was going on there, parish councils are not supposed to be political and to be honest the end result told him what we thought of his petty Newsletter. Then there were the comments in the Keep Misterton a Village manifesto, very libelous
This is the guy who famously told the parish council that public relations to the parish council were like myxomatosis to rabbits. He was wrong at the time, but since being elected in 2010 has done his best to live up to his remark. I do hate poor losers, especially when it affects what is best for residents and bringing personal grievances into the parish council is not what being a good chairman is about.
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Moving on quickly. Have you seen a black greyhound running around, one is lost after jumping a fence. Julie Warburton would like him back as soon as possible.
Is it this weekend the Co-op shuts for a WEEK, how are we going to manage?
Alan Stead persistently rubbished the 2006-2010 Parish Council administration - openly working with (then) District Councillor Raymond Simpson and a few others - to unseat the administration.
ReplyDeleteOne of his lines of attack was against the Parish Council's public relations. There was nothing wrong with the public relations - we had to adopt certain measures to protect the Parish Council from Mr. Stead's and his friends' attacks. They didn't like it.
No surprises that the 'Keep Misterton A Village' 2014 election manifesto was the dirtiest piece of electioneering I've ever seen. As well as the appalling libel of Cllr. Brand, equally bad was the deception over the reduction in precept.
David Wright