(after appalling misuse of power and public monies).
Cllr. Alan Poole, Shadow Cabinet Member for Environmental Services at Thanet District Council, called on the leader and deputy leader at TDC to go at the end of an impassioned speech during discussions over TDC's budget proposals for 2010 to 2011.
Cllr. Poole was angry about large sums of money given to Thanet by the Government with all the best intentions that TDC had used with little or no effect and to the detriment of Ramsgate. He said he was also concerned about the closure of Visitor Information Centres in Broadstairs and Ramsgate and asked if these were attempts to make the town council's pay for a district service.
Cllr. Poole then attacked the ruling Conservative's asset disposal programme and explained that Government advice was that it should only be applied to 'underused or unwanted' assets. He was scathing of Conservative unsuccessful attempts to sell Albion House to Ramsgate Town Council in such an appalling state that it would probably merit enforcement action by TDC if it were in the private sector.
Finally, on the Montefiore Tennis Courts, Cllr. Poole attacked the Conservative administration's needless confrontational tactics in using public funds to interrogate old ladies in the witness box during the enquiry as "an appalling misuse of power and public monies".
Cllr. Alan Poole - Phone: 01843 602594
Published by Thanet Labour Group Press Office - 44 Northdown Road, Margate, CT9 2RW.
Friday, 26 February 2010
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It was not an impassioned speach! it was stilted, badly written and badly read. In Fact it was a 'DISGRACEFUL' speach!!!!
ReplyDeleteI think most of Thanet would be happy to see the Leader and his Deputy go! Thanet needs better than these two.
ReplyDeleteI think the key problem here is that leader is a full time job without a full time job’s salary meaning that the type of person that one would want to do it, probably someone with good academic qualifications and considerable experience of running a large and complex organisation isn’t going to give up their salary for three years to do it.
ReplyDelete"speach"?
ReplyDeleteEven Alan Poole could not resist laughing at his own poor delivery and the bare faced cheeck of his content and approach. Which is sad, because he was trying to make some interesting points which probably deserved more attention than they actually got.
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