Showing posts with label barnet councillors. Show all posts
Showing posts with label barnet councillors. Show all posts

Tuesday, 24 January 2012

When will Barnet Councillors grow some of these?



Let's not mince any words. I am thoroughly sick of the way the cossetted councillors of the London Borough of Barnet hang impotently around the council chamber, pocketing huge allowances and doing nothing at all for the people of Barnet. Let me a few examples of this

Parking charges. They ALL know that these are killing the High Street, which is the heart of the community. Which of them have done anything to help. Even the Leader says "he can do nothing".

One Barnet. They know that the business case is a complete joke. No one has come forward to defend it. No one knows who the project sponsor is. We even had one Tory councillor telling a resident at the weekend that he didn't understand it and voted for it because he was told to. An opposition councillor told me that the report I leaked was shown to them for 10 minutes. They were not allowed to take a copy and weren't allowed enough time to read it properly, consider it or debate it. They are paid to scrutinise such things, yet are "not allowed to".

Overdevelopment. Councillors know that there are too many rabbit hutch flats going up all over Barnet. Which of them say a dickiebird to oppose it. One Tory Councillor told  a resident at the weekend that he was "relieved Boris had canned the Brent Cross scheme". He voted for it.

Sell off of Church Farmhouse Museum for redevelopment. Another Councillor told a resident that he was "sickened" by this proposal. He has said nothing publicly about the proposal. (Note : I emailed every single councillor about this. Only Susette Palmer bothered to reply. She sent an email to council officials demanding to be informed of progress - an example to all).

Cabinet allowance rise. All of the Tory group, apart from Kate Salinger, voted for this, even though most knew it was morally wrong in the current climate.They ostracised her for her stand

Even the most lowly councillor gets thousands of pounds in allowances, for merely attending two council meetings a year. They have to do nothing else to get the cash. We elect them to represent us. Is it too much to ask them to grow some balls and represent us properly. This isn't party political. It is aimed at just about all of them (with a shamefully few honourable exceptions). DO YOUR JOB, REPRESENT THE PEOPLE PROPERLY.

Sunday, 27 June 2010

Barnet Council - The cult of the Councillors

Being dyslexic, you might wonder if I'm calling our Barnet Councillors a bunch of cults? Nothing of the sort, just thought I'd follow up the earlier expose on North Korea style posters  of our "Dear Councillors" with some images and videos provided by the illustrious readers of the Barnet Eye.

How many of these have appeared? I think it's rather embarrassing, but I suppose it's good to see that the public spending cuts have yet to bite in Barnet

What particularly interests me about this one is that it's clealry positioned next to the road. Do they expect drivers to stop and take down Mrs Tambourides particulars? Last but by no means least, a little video of a nice walk you can take where you can see two of the lovely posters in the space of less than two minutes.


Has it occurred to Councillors such as  Lynne Hillan and Robert Rams(bottom) that Uma Thurman and George Clooney they are not !