| Topic: | :Re: STENCH of the TORIES PREVAILS | |
| Posted by: | Steve Taylor | |
| Date/Time: | 23/09/11 21:38:00 |
| "I expect everyone will draw their own conclusions but I hope people will ask questions too: Was the second vote legal? " I would suggest that it wasn't legal because the Tory Chair permitted the Tory Lead Member to leave the room before the second vote, allegedly to go to the toilet. When she returned she led her party members to change their votes and vote approval. I was under the impression that voting members could not leave the room. "Although proper for Members to consider the consequences of voting against approval why does it seem that they took more notice of Richard Aylard from Thames Water than their own officers?" Again I question the motives of the Chair to permit Richard Aylard to speak for a second time when he effectively used the stand to 'lecture' and 'warn' SDC members that deferral was not an option for them as Thames had 'run out of time' to comply with the EU directive. Tough luck I say to that. Thames had a decade to sort out its problems and prepare the site to conform to the directive. They chose not to do so but rather to pay themselves huge bonuses and divert UK profits to the holding company in Germany. "If the reason that approval was given was to give the Council enforcement 'teeth' through the S106 agreement why is this not being used robustly? I think the Council Environmental Dept would argue that the S106 IS indeed being used robustly. The problem is the S106 itself which is so weak that it is not in itself robust. Thames Water worded the agreement regarding storm tank usage as a "heads we win - tails you lose" document. The Environment Director either signed off this document because he knew the department would have no power to force Thames to improve matters i.e. less work for him and his staff, or he was too stupid to understand that Thames was taking him for a ride. As repeatedly stated, within a week of the fateful approval when we met Richard Aylard at Mogden, he was still laughing at the fact that he got everything he wanted and had to give nothing! |