We had a comment from, no less than, Liz Simpson the Parliamentary candidate from Tonbridge and Malling about "It's no joke" TonbridgeBlog's recent posting on the state of our highways during the cold snap. (Scroll down to see the post and all comments) Liz is a bit behind the pace here but better late than never and let's hope we have new convert to TBlog! I thought that it was worth highlighting so here it is in full for you to read. No doubt this will rekindle the political comments as well! I'm still waiting on Sir John Satnley's contribution to the debate!...
" Hi I have only just discovered the Tonbridge Blogger - makes interesting reading. Your first blogger was absolutely right - the blame for lack of coordinated response can be laid fairly and squarely at the feet of Mr Chard Cabinet Member for Highways. Borough Councils were offering to provide staff to help with the snow clearance before Christmas but KCC refused. KCC staff were telling people who phoned in asking for roads and pavement to be gritted that it was a Parish Council responsibility to provide salt bins - when the decision had been made last Autumn that KCC were not going to allow Parish Councils to provide bins (and of course Tonbridge is not parished anyway - so goodness knows where the good folk of Tonbridge were supposed to get theirs from). Following the huge public outcry Mr Chard was forced to apologise for having said it was their responsibility and after Christmas did accept help from the Boroughs. Has now decided that County Councillors can provide salt bins out of their Highways Grant Budgets they all hold - but at over £500 a pop - suggest you look at websites to see how much they cost wholesale. So complete about face. So why not contact your County Councillor and ask for a bin for places like Deakin Leas - that is steep enough at the best of times - must only have been passable by Eddie the Eagle in the snow.And please do remember when you next come to vote that KKC have £50 million people tied up in Iceland, a highways department in chaos, an internet TV station (now dumped) that no-one watched and cost over a million pounds to set up, millions of pounds spent on reorganisation after reorganisation and a demoralised workforce .... the list is almost endless.
Liz Simpson Lib Dem PPC Tonbridge and Malling
PS. Absolute scandal - casualty departments over-run, elderly marooned in their homes for up to three weeks."
6 comments:
When will the LIB/LAB/CON abolish forced adoption of Kent's children ?
youtube 'child stealing by the state'
Brian Gerrish common purpose
find out the appalling truth, and why all parties are so silent on this issue, you will be absolutely shocked.
And this Lib-Dem spokeswoman would make things better then?
Don't listen to any politician, they are only interested in one thing and that is POWER!!
Agreed they are all liars and only interested in pretend power but are really only puppets
http://wideshut.co.uk/
Paul Bailey: that's a bit of a cynical view. I'm sure that most are in it for reasons other than money and power. There will always be a few who seek power and influence but then isn't that true in many other walks of life?
This makes ery intersting reading on Kent's elected members and officers
http://nameshamesocialworkers.blogspot.com/
https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=216729824077790522&postID=6298837526323117917
far too many are only concerned about their own positions and of course the MONEY
Not cynical at all Tonbridge Blogger. People don't go into politics for alturistic reasons, whatever they might tell you.
We have a parliament full of second-class lawyers, obsessed with passing yet more laws, rather than trying to enforce existing ones. Political parties excell at "gesture, knee-jerk politics" rather than tackling the route causes of the nation's ills. All this goes on against a background of the police and the courts ham-strung by so-caleed political correctness, which bestows rights and priviledges on minority groups at the expense of the majority. And on top of this we have a government that has literally bankrupted the country, saddling future generations with a mountain of debt!
Yes, TB, I certainly am cynical when it comes to today's politicians, and they're in for a right roasting if they have the cheek to come knocking on my door at election time!
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