Schools reorganisation latest - Weeks to prepare. Lots of fanfare. Press releases. Briefings to all and sundry - except Labour members - and parents.........
BUT the papers still aren't actually available on the website.
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They have appeared and disappeared at least 4 times in recent hours presumably so that they can be fine tuned as happened with the consultation matrix.
I am a Tory. This is a total shammles. When exactly are they going to resolve this? 2010 - 11 -12?
I cannot believe a Tory administration has got into such a mess. The infighting is shameful. The CP report that DP had Anne Bishop removed from the party is proof that the focus is now on fighting not policy. It's all about them.
I am ashamed of this bunch but I'd bet they still run the council after the next election. The public have given up on politicians national and local.
It's not infighting.....It's about complete control as Charlotte Hofton
said in her piece.This lot could teach Stalin a thing or two.
Like rats in a sack....
The press office seem to be driving much of this. They make Campbell look like a pussycat. They're now clearing posts for the message board on the offy website. Crazy control freakery.
Don't just moan about it, do something!!
What CAN you do when the Conservative leader of the council attacks the Conservative Member of Parliament? I'm not a Tory by a long way, but what the hell is going on here? Do the local Tories really want to throw the IW Council back into the laps of LibDems who do not, by any stretch of the imagination, deserve it? What happens to democracy when you have a) a Tory party in total disarray, b) a LibDem party which ran the show before and made a mess of it, and remains in total confusion, c) a Labour opposition which amounts to two, marginalized, members? Where does the public come in? And government talks about devolving power, to this shower? I wouldn't give them control of the local slipper baths, if we had any....
Does the public even realize what a total mess their local government is in? There have been IW councils I've disagreed with, in the past; this is the first IW Council I've totally despaired of. I feel totally disenfranchised, thanks to a group of wholly incompetent local councillors and a cabinet system of local government, wished on us by New Labour, whose capacity to run the Island's economy is almost comically inadequate. At least, it would be comical if I weren't subsidizing it through my Council Tax! The tragedy is that there are good, intelligent people in County Hall, in all parties: why can't they get together and sack this appalling local leadership? Cross party lines, and kick them out - loyalty to rubbish leadership is disloyalty to those who pay good money to support local services.
Stand as an indi - national party tags don't mean much in local politics. Find a theme and stand - throw the buggers out!
National party tags seem to mean all too much. Granted, the ruling Tories have split, but come the next election we all, surely, know that there will be a team of Tories standing, just as there were a few years ago, all committed to getting their bums on seats in County Hall, all prepared to fight like rats in a sack when they've been elected and have forgotten the manifesto on which they stood. I'm too old to stand as an Indi and, more to the point, doubt that I could do more than shout, ineffectually, were I to be elected. I think it needs more than that; I think it needs those of us who have a political point of view (as most of us do) to join the parties for which we would normally vote and work to influence their policies. We owned them once; why can't we own them again, and take them away from the careerists and apparatchiks who have prostituted them?
We can't, until this government has been chucked out and some honesty and integrity injected into national politics. David Pugh's methods and attitude are no different from what we see in Westminster (which is where he wants to be). The Westminster Cabinet is full of career politicians and this is being mirrored here. Thank goodness we have a decent, conscientious MP at present, let's keep it that way.
I suppose we on the Island can try to change things. First thing is to work to get rid of the spiv at County Hall but, as Robert Jones has pointed out, that will take Conservative supporters and decent people willing to stand as Independants to start shouting.
At the moment I don't hear much shouting, even Geoff Lumley seems to have turned into a lamb.
Sigh - yet again the malise on the Island is the fault of the Goverment. The public's lack of trust in politicians goes back at least 20 years to cash for quesitons and ends up with shadow Cabinet (and at the time, European) ministers clambering over a billionaire's boat looking for who knows what...?
By the way haven't the tories just lost 2 MEP's in the last 6 months due to expenses allegations totalling half a million pounds each (one of which has to be repaid?). How powerful the current cabinet is being able to influence MEP's - and Tory ones at that!
There's another Tory who 'employed' his family members for no work that the auditors could determine - the fault of the government? Nah.
The lack of public confidence in politicians does not begin and end with the government and the problems on the Island can be fixed by Islanders themselves - either inside or outside the existing policial constructs. Those of you who think that everything will be sorted if only the national government would fall are, as usual, barking up the wrong tree. Politics is the local.
anon@11.24:
"even Geoff Lumley seems to have turned into a lamb."
Geoff, as a long-term fan I'd find it hard to say this face to face, but you do seem to have retreated into a corner. It's time you came out fighting.
So. anon at 1.22, are you saying that what happens in Westminster need not affect what happens on the Island?
We are still part of GB aren't we?
Yes Geoff, fight the ba5tard5!
Someone should, get on the radio and comment on what's wrong. Get the press office tamed at least, they're out of control.
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