With The Spirit of Chartwell moored in Ramsgate Royal
Harbour and what looks misuse of the system to regulate standards in public
life at Thanet District Council, I thought some sort of comment would be
appropriate.
First for those of you who are interested in the
relative popularity of local blogs here is the link to my referral statistics
for this blog http://michaelsbookshop.com/laptop912
I guess those of you who read my press release
blog will have viewed the video of Independent Councillor Bernard La Roche, if
you haven’t here it is
As someone who reads more of the rather bland documents
emanating from our various level of government than I would like, when it comes to our local
government, it is the video footage that seems most to provide some sort of
indicator that all is far from well.
The notion that we have local democracy and elect people who
best represent our views and will represent local people, curbing the more
bizarre excesses of career officers who live outside of the local area, doesn’t
seem to work as well as one would hope.
Apologies if all this is a bit confused, my bookshop is
fairly busy today and this combined with having bought the mother of all
printers, so that I can print historic maps of Thanet, means that my eye is not
entirely on the ball.
Once again I find myself wondering about the benefits of
the elected leader system for Thanet District Council, certainly paying for
local councillors to wrangle with each other doesn’t seem to me to an appropriate
use of local funds and resources.
I wouldn’t say that I am a royalist, resorting
to youtube again, this is the national anthem that most represents
my nationalistic affiliations.
That said I do like a bit of showmanship and don’t
think that replacing the present system of a monarch would be improved by
having President Cameron, Clegg or what is the other chap’s name?
An interesting aside to local politics is that Dr Simon
Moores appears to have aspirations towards becoming Dr No and appears to have
bought the domain
http://birchington.blogspot.no/
Visual images of Simon battling it out on the north of
the island with Sean Connery and Ursula Andress have become too much for me and
I have gone to have a lie down.
As you see from the pictures, after leaving The
Belgian Café yesterday evening I spent some time looking at the moon.
I have watched the video from Councillor Bernard La Rouche. It appears that a member of the public tried to get into his meeting and Bernard feels that everyone should hear about it. Well I have to admit that this incident has taken my mind off the possible Israeli strike on the Iran, the war by proxy being fought between Iran and Saudi Arabia in Syria, the imminent collapse of the Euro Zone, the UK shrinking economy, my dinner; and the tatty state of Thanet, including Birchington. What is it that causes Bernard and his ilk take themselves so seriously?
ReplyDeleteThey're all pompous asses.
DeleteVery strange as I have not bought the domain!
ReplyDeleteSimon I picked the url up off the web stats, further research after your comment shows that this is your Norwegian nemesis on blogger and nothing you need to worry about.
DeleteSo what happened to the Spirit of Chartwell? It is not on any slipway this week, that must have been a lightning repair.
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