| Topic: | Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Do I smell a rat? | |
| Posted by: | Phil Andrews | |
| Date/Time: | 03/04/16 16:51:00 |
| "It is not quite true however that you where not going to close it, we are well aware that the ICG told a resident of the street that they would shut Church Street if said resident stood as an ICG candidate - so we should leave that one there." Well as that is a complete fabrication, let's not. Said resident sent me an e-mail (I still have it) advising me that he thought he ought to be a candidate at the 2014 local election, I assume without realising that there was a selection process involved and that this was not a decision which was his alone to make. I responded by politely pointing this out, whereupon he sent me another e-mail (which I also still have) advising me that he had decided against putting his name forward. At every local election since 2006 the ICG candidacies for Isleworth and Syon wards have been contested - we were not in the position of having to beg anybody, least of all anybody who had not previously been active with our group, to represent us. Maybe there is an assumption on your part here that a well-heeled resident of Church Street would ipso facto have been considered such a prize catch that we would have dispensed with our processes to secure his candidacy, but this is not the case. At no stage was any promise ever made by any officer of the ICG to any resident of Church Street - ex-Chair included - that the ICG would support closure. Our position was always clear and unambiguous - that we would do whatever we reasonably could to help Church Street residents, whilst taking due account of the interests of other residents of the ward. Our Chair at the time of the 2014 contest, who himself was dead against closure, would not have permitted us to have gone beyond this position even if we had wanted to. With the creative memory that you seem to have I am beginning to understand how it is that you seem to get along so well with certain of Isleworth's present councillors. |