As 'Strife' Team members prepare follow up FoI requests with KCC about the 'contribution' that Rose Farm Estates is to make, if any, to the New Haine Road through the Eurokent land that it owns and push off down to Ashford Business Park to talk to Keel Toys, Bertie is left manning the phone with little snippets coming in to share with you.
It has come to our attention that at a recent Partners and Communities Together (PACT) meeting, two of Dane Valley Ward's Councillors were overheard discussing getting together to hold joint surgeries for Ward residents. It would seem that Cllr Mike Jarvis ( an excellent Conservative Cllr who is out of favour with The Ezekiel Party) has offered to hold a joint surgery for Dane Valley Residents with newly elected Cllr Sandy Hart (Labour's new excellent Cllr). This is a splendid idea and shows that both Cllrs put working together for the Thanet residents they represent above the petty Party politics that has under 'Mauwice' been a hallmark of TDC. I wish them both success. Mike Jarvis has been doing his best for too long in Dane Valley with two very low profile Ezekiel Party Cllrs as fellow ward Cllrs and with Sandy's enthusiasm and commitment, a new era of co-operation and joint common effort could be with us.
A member of the team down at Albion House yesterday, has reported in that residents and HOOTs supporters of The Montefiore Village Green, were being torn to shreds by the 'rottweiler' of a barrister employed by TDC to fight against their Village Green Application. This is not as dramatic as 'Peterloo' thank goodness but it is not a nice sight to see a highly paid and expensive legal expert, paid by TDC Council Tax payers via TDC, turning the heat on Thanet residents paying Council taxes to TDC ! When will TDC grasp the deep and lasting resentment that is building up around the Isle because of its actions like this?
Now to TDC Conservative Group meeting last Thursday or should I say Ezekiel Party Group meeting? It would seem that straws blowing in the wind are turning into bales! The rumours of some major changes afoot grow stronger. It would seem that the Conservative ascendancy over what has been described as the Ezekiel Junta may have begun and that NTCA and STCA have had enough. It seems that Cllr Bayford is being mentioned as a 'New Leader' and that 'Mauwice' and hopefully 'Woger' will be on their way sooner than April/May. My advice, which of course, will be ignored is :
'Gentlemen, go now and let your successors have longer to clean out the mess you have left lying around the stables. Not only is there a National Election due but 2011 is just over the horizon and you have done enough harm to The Conservative Party already. For God's sake resign or retire.'
13 comments:
Bob Bayford wouldnt be much better than Ezekiel, he has a reputation for being a very lazy ward councillor, and is already a KCC councillor too? Not exactly a clean brush to sweep through either?
Good to hear two TDC councillors co-operating in this way. Central Harbour, Ramsgate is the only other ward with representatives from the two parties but I have no idea if they share any surgeries or divide out the work between them.
On the 'Bayford for Leader' rumour, I do wonder if the Leader of the Ezekiel party will go willingly or whether there will be a coup. We've had stories like this before but nothing came of it and we still have the main man as Leader.
Bayford as Leader with all his other commitments? I've heard comments about how well he represents Kingsgate (ironoc comment, there) so wonder if he'd have time to do the post justice. Who'd be in his cabinet? Any bets being placed on that one?
I hope you are right regarding the prospective toppling of the current junta. It is not only the leader and his deputy who need to beat a hasty retreat, a few of his cronies should also follow suit. Should this occur I will once again and quite happily put my mark against a conservative party candidate (with the few exceptions noted).
I think Jarvis is a plant. Never seems to say much, certainly not anything you would expect to hear a Tory say, and cosy's up to anyone who will talk to him. But on second thoughts, none of them seem to have much to say. Perhaps thats why you like him Bertie. Just a passive yes man to be manipulated by agitators like you and your stooges?
Unlike the other two 2007 Ezekiel Party Cllrs meant to be representing Dane Valley until recently, Cllr Jarvis commands respect and support among the electorate in Dane Valley Ward, 19:26 and that's good enough for a stooge and agitator like myself.
How vain of you to suggest you speak for all the electorate of Dane Valley Bertie. You really are becoming a legend in your own mind.
20:58, you are becoming as boring as I have often been accused of being! Please re-read my comment of 20:27 carefully and try and grasp the meaning, my dear chap/chapesse.
It's nice to hear that Bertie.. a little co-operation could go a long way.
Perhaps other Councillors could take a leaf out of Jarvis and Sandy's books and perhaps actually realize it's not about themselves but about the wards they represent??
Jarvis has a self inflated opinion of himself, an ex banker says it all.... I am a MEMBER of North Thanet C A and can tell you his popularity rating is about -500
That's a bit rich 1043. Jarvis is promoting himself as the next tdc leader and north thanet mp in waiting, and sandy is married to the biggest self publicist in thanet if not kent. and jarvis lives just about as far from the ward he represents as you can get, while sandy doesn't live in hers either. Can this be right?
14.04 & 14.11, thanks for revealing yourself as an NTCA member. In fact you didn't need to as this had already been surmised.
Only a limited number of people might know about the aspirations you refer to.
So it would seem, my dear Ezekiel Party member, posing as a Conservative, that in NTCA, who needs enemies with friends and colleagues like you?
Not an inspiring advert for the state of NTCA is it and the need to attract good candidates for the 2011 TDC Elections?
Well replied Bertie, that is why the likes of you and me although natural tories want nothing to do with the south or north local tories, nasty lot. The only ones not on that scale are Jarvis and Wells and a few others not brave enough to stand up and be counted. The sooner we get some independants to shake them out the better! we have identified one Mr Nasty by his poor spelling!
I know several cross party councillors work together for the good of the town but they dont always boast about it.
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