Former Barnet Tory Councillor calls Hendon Tory Chairman a "Pompous Arsehole" on Twitter

What is it about the Barnet Tories? They really hate each other, don't they? Former Chipping Barnet Conservative Councillor and Tory activist, Daniel Hope, tonight called the Chairman of the Hendon Conservatives and senior Barnet Councillor Hugh Rayner a "pompous arsehole" on Twitter.

http://twitter.com/#!/barnetbugle/statuses/110775485029560320

His exact statement :-

@barnetbugle The Barnet Bugle Ltd

Pompous arsehole Cllr Hugh Rayner continues to obstruct us filming meetings and even collecting papers from the table for the meeting.

41 minutes ago via Tweetbot for iPhone Favorite Retweet Reply 

One can only speculate as to why these two have developed such a tetchy relationship. Personally I think Councillor Rayner is a truly wonderful addition to the local political scene and can confirm that he hasn't got a pompous bone in his botty. You can see him being extremely unpompous in this clip below. Hugh kindly allowed the Barnet Eye to film this Council meeting for a full 27 minutes, before this interjection. He is on record as being the first Barnet Councillor to be filmed in action at a Committee meeting. This was in the days before the Council realised that filming meetings was actually quite legal. 

Oh what fun we had

One - Nil to the Barnet Eye !!!!! Barnet Council allows visitors to video meetings

As the blog which broadcast the first video of Barnet Council in action, please allow us a small gloat at  the decision to allow visitors to video Council proceedings.

If you visit this link, you will see that the videos we've posted of the Council have attracted a decent amount of hits and interest. Councillor Danny "Imber" Seal suggests that bloggers will soon get bored filming meetings now it's allowed. This totally misunderstands the blogging community and the wider Barnet community. Not every meeting will be video'd,  but ones with huge public interest such as the Budget meeting this year and the Pinkham Way meeting, most certainly will be.

If you click this link - http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=rogtex+&aq=f -, you'll see that the Town hall footage video has got 845 views. The Pinkham Way debate got 531 views. There is an audience for the issues of real public interest. People didn't view these video's because they were well filmed or because they were banned. They viewed them because they were interested in the subject matter.

Danny Seal is not the first Barnet Tory Councillor to totally misunderstand the people he represents. Sadly he won't be the last either. Nope, I didn't film it. Last June I was elected to our local Parish Council and I had to attend the bi-monthly meeting on behalf of the people in the Parish who elected me.