Topic: | Re: STENCH of the TORIES PREVAILS | |
Posted by: | Steve Taylor | |
Date/Time: | 17/09/11 07:57:00 |
"I would certainly be interested to know whether, with the benefit of hindsight, councillors who voted in support of expansion still believe they were right to do so." It is not surprising that Tory Cllr Todd refuses to answer this simple question raised by Phil Andrews. He has also repeatedly been asked to answer the very simple question on whether he and his party support Hounslow and Richmond residents in their fight for justice or if they stand firm in their support for Macquarie Group Investment Bankers' expansion of the works. However it should be stressed that the Tory Cllrs who voted on the expansion also had the benefit of foresight as they were fully briefed by MRAG and had the benefit of professional expert opinion regarding the process of sewage and odour control and the failures of Thames Water over the previous decade. Their behaviour is even more bizarre and unforgivable because the Professor employed by LBH to give evidence in the Abatement Case heard in the Feltham Magistrates Court is the same expert employed by residents to give evidence in the High Court of Justice. The legal advice given to Tory Cllrs was very simply not to consider the expansion application until the High Court of Justice had heard all evidence to support the allegations of mismanagement and neglect at Mogen. Interestingly when Thames Water was sold by RWE to Macquarie Group, a couple of hundred million £'s was deducted from the sale price and set aside to deal with compensation claims and pending litigations against Thames Water. I wonder if the last Tory administration of LBH also set aside the odd £100 million to deal with possible compensation claims against the Environment Dept for this major blunder and I wonder how Cllr Todd and his cronies will explain this to taxpayers! |