If you're proposing that it's OK for them to make so many mistakes because they're not paid for their work, this is not something would agree with. The Labour Party is the second biggest political party in the country and people, many of them earning a low wage, pay a great deal towards it. The fact that the party tolerates the sort of mis-management we've seen in the past six months or so just goes to show how little interest the party has in Newbury.
Which brings me back to the old chestnut, what has Westminster politics got to do with local government. In a word, nothing.
User, the reason we have an election agent is to look after the legals, nominations and everything else. Nothing to do with campaigns or organising I'm afraid, although I know you would love to pin this on me.
The fact is, your mate Andy Day messed up, yet has got away with pinning the blame on the press for reporting his mistakes and BT (yet he didn't have the foresight to insert penalty clauses!!!). As we have seen elsewhere, the Lib Dems don't know their backside from their elbow on CCTV so by banning people like myself and the people who were affected from taking part in the review, there was no chance the officers in charge were going to face detailed questions.
The Lib Dems rejected calls for a review throughout January, it was only when public pressure mounted that they did a u turn. David Rendel got the basic facts wrong at the review, he even said that the council were WASTING MONEY on the transfer, even though it will save huge amounts of money in the long run. All I have been critical about is the fact the council misled, lied and poorly planned the whole thing. These issues have been accepted in the report, yet noboy has been held to account and no actions are to be implemented by the council for the future. Why not???
User, the reason we have an election agent is to look after the legals, nominations and everything else. Nothing to do with campaigns or organising I'm afraid, although I know you would love to pin this on me.
"Not my fault guv, nothing to do with me, was all the election agent's fault".
Richard, as campaign manager the buck stopped with you and as a potential candidate it seemed you couldn't even tick the right box on one side of a sheet of A4 to get yourself nominated for the Town Council, or was this the election agent's fault too?
The fact is, you don't practice what you preach regarding those that make mistakes being punished and this speaks volumes.
You really don't know what you are talking about I'm afraid. I take the blame for not being allowed to stand at the town council election, the buck stops with me on that one as the form was in my hands. But for anything else to do with the legals and electoral side of things, nobody is allowed near it unless you have had the training.
The CCTV issue that seems to have been forgotten in all this is the massive reduction in the number of cameras. A couple of years ago there were over 100. How many are there now? 40ish? How many areas are no longer protected by CCTV coverage?
We may be saving money, but are we doing so by paying for a reduced service?
The CCTV issue that seems to have been forgotten in all this is the massive reduction in the number of cameras. A couple of years ago there were over 100. How many are there now? 40ish? How many areas are no longer protected by CCTV coverage?
We may be saving money, but are we doing so by paying for a reduced service?
I think that's because the bigger number includes to ANPR cameras, where the police and WBC can take pictures of you in your car.
I think that's because the bigger number includes to ANPR cameras
Sadly not. The most obvious ANPR ones are those high above St Johns roundabout. They were there ages before the 'switch-over' and they're still there now.
It's the ones such as the pair in Lower Way that have been taken out of the equation, because they were switched off and not replaced.
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