`Its a shame that the only reporter the Dagenham Post could get along to last weeks meeting was John Phillips, not known for his sense of humour.
First headline reads "First victory in library protest" as all will know by now the Cabinet were not supporting the closure, but of course the Emperor and his cronies want to give the impression that they have stopped this one. We are amazed at Cabinet member John White alleged statement. Perhaps he had a brief dose of amnesia and forgot he is a Cabinet member......at the moment.
Baron von Letchford it now appears represents a very small community in his ward as several times during the review we are informed that he represents Becontree Tenants and Residents Association odd that as we see no Declaration of Interest in the minutes, still if that's all he is representing we do hope that his other ward colleagues are picking up the slack...........but then we know they are not.
One of the 3 ugly sisters at the meeting, who just happens to be the group whip has obviously not been paying attention to what the Community Associations are telling the Council, they are of course more than happy to take over the lease of the community halls, but the ugly sister was going on about "blank cheques", no idea where that idea come from.
As always the Ugly Sisters go out in 3s, so Carpenter and Twomey had to put in their two penny worth. It appears that these 2 have turned up at all of the Select Committee meetings, and very vocal they have been. It then makes us wonder why Evilyn failed to put herself forward for membership of any of these back in May, but then we know she threw her toys out of the pram because she failed to get the positions at the AGM that she believed she was entitled to and had been promised.
Really its a waste of time going on with the Press Review as its obvious to us that the reporter was not paying attention.
So we will give you a quick update on what may be happening at the Assembly this evening.
First off we have learned from the bnp website that they are proposing to demonstrate outside the Town Hall tonight, we doubt the many will turn up, a bit too cold for them, but if they do just watch and see which members take on the grandstanding role in the chamber.
2 of the Ugly Sisters will be putting up Motions this evening, firstly Evilyn, she wants the Council to lobby government for additional money for the Adult College, laudable, but is it a pressing need at this time?
The other Ugly Sister, Twomey, his Motion is far more damaging, basically he wants the Council to hand over to Housing Associations Council properties because he thinks they are the only ones that can bring in the funding to regenerate certain areas.
Well we don't have to look to far to find where that idea came from, was it Circle Anglia or East Thames?
Perhaps Twomey should learn to walk before he can run, he should pay attention to the tenants of the council who have already voted overwhelmingly that they want to stay Council Tenants, that is why the Labour Group aligned its self to the Defend Housing campaign, and that is strengthened by being Council policy.
Aside from tenants wishes what about the staff that would have to be made redundant, estate officers, managers, caretakers, to name but a few, obviously Twomey has not thought of that, or has he, it wont impact on his publicly funded wage packet.
Still we will sit in the gallery tonight and watch the panto and report back.
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