| Topic: | Re:Re:Re:Re:Just what are the Tories and Junior Tories doing to our borough? | |
| Posted by: | Phil Andrews | |
| Date/Time: | 04/03/09 17:39:00 |
| Dave I think you need to watch the webcast of the January Borough Council meeting. The £4m is to be spent on tenant-led initiatives. This was the bit that upset your colleagues. Your comment about "accountability" to "community groups" provides a useful insight into your deceit and your underhand political ways. During its many years in office your party specialised in creating such groups to "represent" various interests such as tenants, housing estates and residential communities and engaging with those groups - filled with your party members and other cronies - as "representatives" of the community rather than engaging with the community itself. When those who weren't chosen to be involved in these incestuous cliques tried to get a foot in the door your policy was to shut them out, often by gerrymandering or by corporately-endorsed character-assassination of individuals. In Isleworth tenants reacted to this policy by setting up their own groups and associations. It was rather insightful that when my proposals to give £4m to tenants for projects to be identified by tenants were announced the first people into the fray to urge that they be rejected were the official tenants' representatives! True, they had been misled (by you and your ilk) as to the purpose of the initiative, and withdrew their opposition to my plans when they discovered my true intent, but their willingness to instinctively assume the worst of me taught me a great deal. Anyway Dave, shouldn't you be devoting more of your time to trying to win the next local elections? A fly on the wall tells me everything isn't as it should be in that department. |