| Topic: | Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:No vote of No Confidence from the "Opposition" at LBH Borough Council meeting | |
| Posted by: | Phil Andrews | |
| Date/Time: | 21/07/16 23:37:00 |
| I don't know whether Councillor Hearn realises it or not but his comments just serve to underline everything I have been saying about the "Opposition" on this Council for some time. I have no doubt that the residents of Staveley Gardens are well served by their ward councillors, and indeed that other Chiswick Conservative councillors represent their own constituents with equal diligence. But when you are, as Councillor Hearn himself puts it, the only opposition party on the Council your task is to speak up not only for residents in your own ward but for people across the borough, taking the administration to task on issues on which Hounslow residents across the board are being let down. This emphasis on strictly parochial issues to the exclusion of all else suggests that the local Conservatives have now completely given up any hope of ever forming an administration in Hounslow and are instead concentrating all their energies upon ensconcing themselves ever more deeply in their own W4 comfort zone. An "Opposition" which is content to feed upon the scraps thrown to them from Curran's table, not quite haute cuisine but enough to sustain them in their own little backyards in perpetuity whilst the Dear Leader gets a blank cheque to wreak havoc everywhere else. I ask you, would a councillor who had any interest whatsoever in the wider borough seriously suggest that residents who wish to become involved should travel to the Civic Centre and listen to a bunch of politicians in their natural habitats droning on about fiscal policy? How about said politicians spending some time in the community attempting to find out what the issues are that actually concern people rather than the dull tedium which seems to inspire them? Hounslow does not have an "Opposition" in the Council Chamber, just an administration on one side and its own little brother sitting opposite, quietly nodding. The real opposition is on the streets, and that is the only opposition which seems willing to hold Curran and his cronies to account - hence his crude attempts to silence it. |