Cllr. Kay Dark elected as new Chairman of Thanet District Council #ThanetCouncil
— Communications Team (@ThanetCouncil) May 16, 2013
I have tried embedding the council's tweeting activities here, don't know if it will work, if it will update or anything like that
apparently it doesn't, perhaps this will
Cllr. Harry Scobie elected as new Vice Chairman of Thanet District Council #ThanetCouncil
the council's tweeting of the meeting seems to have stopped, here is the Gazette's
The usual busman’s holiday today, buying books in Sandwich;
I also took some photos for this blog post.
Here is the link to the photos
https://plus.google.com/photos/103118335852639233427/albums/5878606545586612481?banner=pwa
Who were the two Tory cllrs who had the dignity to stay?
ReplyDeleteNot really about dignity, 9:02, but very childish behaviour by the current leadership. Elected councillors should serve on committees and it is partly what they are remunerated for with their allowances. To remove them for offences which have been dealt with and do not disbar them from holding office is indeed petty. A walk out was really the only option to show contempt for this action.
DeleteMore worryingly, and despite Hart's oft repeated assurances of working together, this serves to reinforce the image that TDC is totally divided along political tribal lines and is incapable of serving us as a properly functioning administration.
I think the issue is that Tomlinson and Gregory are still councillors and their offences do not ban them for serving. Gregory was even cleared by the council's own internal disciplinary machinery as the act was in his private capacity so, whilst I would agree with you that councillors private lives do impact on the reputation of the council, if they are still there then they should fulfill all their duties.
DeleteOne might also ask why Mike Harrison was not so treated for his homophobic rant on his own blogsite for which he was warned. Without wishing to kick off again on degrees of offence there should be some consistency. This way it is too tribal.
Peter, I do agree with you that there is fault on all sides which is why I made my comment about the council being divided along party tribal lines. That is not in our best interests but to resolve it would take a quality of leadership that seems sadly lacking in Thanet.
As ever, trying to enlighten Peter on allowances and responsibilities conjures visions of Blackadder attempting to teach Baldric to count.
ReplyDeleteIs "Allan" the same person as "Allam"?
ReplyDeleteCouple of thoughts here. The first being anonymous comment by anyone claiming to Richard Card (or any other known blogger with a blogger account) – who has his own blogs and blogger accounts so any legitimate comment by them would appear as links to his account like mine, Simon Moores and Peter Checksfield’s do – is treated as spam here, so replying to it is a waste of time as the replies go with the spam. The other being, just what our own dear council are up to is beyond me. My guess is if what happened in the county elections is repeated in the TDC elections and the recent by-election, then all of our district councillors with the possible exception of Will Scobie will be replaced by UKIP councillors.
ReplyDeleteClive hasn't done anything in 2 years so the latest appointments are just the usual irrelevant shuffling of job titles. They can't do anything or they'd have done it by now.
ReplyDeleteUnfortunately UKIP are simply older Tories - usually with grudges such as Zita etc. Not exactly the Great White Hopes of Thanet.
Thanet politics has collapsed and taken the area with it.
Who is TDC's new twitterer?
ReplyDeleteRegardless of who is tweeting for @ThanetCouncil, at last some facts being communicated in real time instead of not at all.
ReplyDeleteMichael, congratulations on staying sane with all this political nonsense, I don't know how you manage it.
ReplyDeleteOn another note, thank you for your new way of presenting your great photographs ... much better on my laptop than the previous full page displays. Oh yes! I reckon your painting and sketching is getting better too.
So well done on three counts. That's three more than ANY TDC councillor deserves for anything!