Tony Green

Tony Green on the Executive Board decision to allow barbeque areas on the Moor

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I attended the Executive Board meeting and enjoyed it enormously: Councillor Procter (Conservative) patronising the public and losing votes every time he opened his mouth; Councillor Golton (Lib Dem) sharing with us his touching family-reminiscences and concluding sagely that it is ‘a generational issue’: we are privileged to be represented by intellects like that: the torch of John Stuart Mill still burns bright (I wonder how many Lib Dem councillors have read On Liberty: it’s awfully good); poor Councillor Monaghan (Lib Dem) squirming to tow the party line while not alienating his voters: a treat to listen to (how he’s got himself tied up with this farce I can’t imagine; he ought to find a way of extricating himself.) Finally, seeing the vote go through on the nod, so that we all knew that the talk meant nothing, and it was all only done for the entertainment of the public. I recommend it to anybody. And it’s free. Except it isn’t. We pay the bill, in advance, and during, and retrospectively.

Null and Void

Dumped

We were advised that 10,000 questionnaires would be delivered to households within 800m of Woodhouse Moor. I live within that perimeter, it is now 15/04/09, and I am still waiting, as are most of my neighbours. I know of precisely 1 who has received it. Something is up. Options follow:

  1. Council Officers lied (which I do not wish to think.)
  2. There has been a massive administrative bungle (wholly believable.)
  3. The private company retained to do the delivery has dumped most of the stuff and run off chuckling with the money (also wholly believable, and it wants looking into.)

In any case, this presumably renders the Consultation null and void.

(photo courtesy of net_efekt)