Charlotte Hofton was poking fun at me again in the County Press today regarding my non-attendance at the ceremonial starter to Full Council last week,
"The council chamber was packed for this special ceremony. There were lots of councillors, though not, of course, Cllr Geoff Lumley, who was probably down at the working men's club reading his copy of Tribune, in proletariat protest at all this flummery.
Cllr Lumley would not have liked the ceremony. Apart from the councillors, the Rent-a-Nob pack was out in force, with the seats around the chamber and in the public gallery full of the Island's finest."
I love it ! She has my approach to these ceremonies spot on, though I haven't read Tribune in quite some time. And I wasn't the only one not there.......
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Was the Lord High Titch there? That would have been enough to put most of us off; I would say I'd nothing against the bloke personally, but I recently struggled through one of his novels (just to say I'd read one) and realized what a pellucid master of prose Geoffrey Archer is, in comparison. However, I don't think there's anything wrong with a bit of a civic party now and then, it all adds a bit of colour and conviviality, and actually I think you should overcome your prejudices and attend them, maybe for much the same reason as I battled with the Titch's pedestrian prose; just to say you've done it. What, after all, is this life if, full of care, we have no time to stand and stuff ourselves with canapés and the odd glass of warm white Chilean Chardonnay? You might otherwise get the reputation of being a bit of a curmudgeon: and we all know how painful you'd find that!
Incidentally, you aren't the only one who hasn't read Tribune for quite some time, which is why it's going bust.
Well done Geoff, it is all nonsense and we pay for it. Who cares? I certainly wouldn't pray for the council (oh, maybe I would if it worked) can't believe they still do!
You only have to look at the legal parade pictured in the Cp and elsewhere. What a pointless load of old nonsense, the usual suspects once again dressed up enjoying the show of pomp and poewer before getting their snouts in the trough for a free lunch.
I. Best stay true to ur wurkun class roots eh kiddah?
Whur'd I put me tabs?
I 'ate the Torees me and that John Prescut bloke.
I'm more interested in where one rents a nob from on the Island...I'm sure it would be a draw for the tourists - be an improvement on Blackgang Chine. Perhaps there will be a web site soon...?
I think that this report was poking fun more at the good and the great than it was at Geoff.
Now where's my credit card....
So the invitation to the yacht party went straight back to Nat Rothschild?
You disappoint me Mr Lumley.
It seems your ego is as large as Pugh's. He wants to be pictured single handedly cleaning up the island's graffiti, you love being written about.
Why can't you people just get on with doing what you're supposed to do. It should be all about us instead it's all about you?
As for Labour, clearly they would rather attack Osbourne than admit Mandy is lying within weeks of his return. A return that's bound to end in tears.
Dear me, what brought that on? It's just a bit of fun in the local rag.
A bit of self promotion never did anyone any harm - ask David C. Self promotion is part of the political process. Don't like it, don't read it.
Osborne is being attacked for discussing the possibility of a donation from a foreign businessman which is, of course, illegal (the donation, not the discussion). Even he doesn't deny a discussion took place. I'm sure it was a short chat, eh?
Mandy is being attacked because he knows a foreign businessman - not the same thing I fear. He wasn't even a minister was he, so where's the problem? Guilt by association, but guilty of what exactly? A mistaken date, tut tut whatever next....
The Tories are obviously more scared of him than they let on.
It all ends in tears eventually....
I saw David Pugh having lunch with people from Cornwall Power and Light. They looked on good terms. I thought that was probably a bad idea ahead of a conroversial planning application and decision. Now I read John Wortham got an admission that DP and IWC people had been down to Cornwall as guests of the company. The big wind farm turbines in Brighstone seem to be a done deal. There are another ten possible sites around the island they want to develop. Politicians eh.
Fascinating. Where was DP supposedely having grub with CLP? When did he visit Cornwall? If anonymous @ 9:12pm can provide any evidence, please do - or shut up.
Ask John Wortham, he's the one who raised this at full council. It's public record.
Ooooooooh anonymous 12.02 - hit a sore point someone has. 'Or shut up' - my, my.
At least it wasn't the local lodge where business used to be conducted on the Island.
Local treasure John Wortham attends all IW Council meetings and asks awkward questions.
His number is in the phone book, I suggest you phone him or ask County Hall what was said and admitted 12.02 anon.
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