| Topic: | Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Isleworth Public Hall | |
| Posted by: | Vanessa Smith | |
| Date/Time: | 28/09/10 10:56:00 |
| I take it you have heard the term 'A Sprat to catch a Mackerel?'. This is what I think you and you group are doing by turning up anywhere and everywhere, and then criticisng local councillors for not doing the same. You just can't bear the fact that you are no longer cock of the walk, so you seem to have decided to be councillors in waiting like large spiders waiting for their prey to waltz into the web. Hence 'Hounslow Watch and turning up at area meetings, you just can't bear to let go - can you? You are more than entitled to have a view of what goes on locally and to criticise when justifed, but most of us fade gracefully into the background and just get on with life once we are out of the hurly burly of politics at the Civic Centre, whilst still taking an interest of what is going on that affects us. Fair enough if you want to turn up at the opening of an envelope I don't much care what you do with your time, but it's this feeling that all you are doing is biding your time and keeping yourselves in the spotlight just to slag off other people who have now been elected, in the hopes that you'll be in a prime place to pounce come the next local elections. All this nonsense about giving the new councillors a chance etc. piffle! You have no intention of giving an inch, you need to remember you didn't hold down a job whilst being a councillor, others choose not to ask the council tax payer to support them and anyway can't afford to, just because they don't rush around getting their faces shown everywhere all the time doesn't mean they're not carrying out their duties to their constituents, it means they don't have the luxury of the time you apparently have. No doubt if they were able to not to work they'd have more time on their hands too. So - the sprat is you saying - look at us we're here looking as if we're really involved, the mackerel being this is used as proof of how wonderful you are to justify why you should again be kept at the taxpayer's expense come 2014. |