Comments on: Meadowbank by-election campaigns get underway with leaflet drops

By: David Thomas

David Thomas — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:52:47 +0000

Gents,

If Ernie Brown and Sachin Singhal is reading this blog, no-one wouldn’t blame them if they changed their mind and didn’t stand. There is, and always has been too much point scoring and blaming each other for past mistakes.

Please don’t use the Bradley Stoke Journal to try and score cheap points with each other.

There are many good councillors from both parties. Please work together to make Bradley Stoke a better place to live.

I am not on either side, this is just an observation. In my opinion(and I am a resident of Bradley Stoke with children)
The youth provision at Baileys Court Activity Centre is a great place for them. It was a good idea(I dont care who’s) to give the youth a ‘dedicated youth space with their own front door’. Far better in one place where they have the freedom to express themselves without having to clear everything away at the end of the evening.

Many thanks!

(perhaps it was the clerks idea!)

By: Jon Williams

Jon Williams — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:00:21 +0000

It’s a pity that this site is being used by existing cllrs to make political mischief. I happily acknowledge the achievements of the council during the Conservative administration, but also look at the negatives. They closed the bowls club, they closed 2 popular youth clubs, have decided, even before consultation has been held (as promised in the 5 year business plan) to build new offices at the Jubliee site and on a personal level have excluded me from meetings.

I also think my proposal to freeze the cost of hiring council premises during 2009/10 was a more significant contribution than commenting on the behaviour of Conservative councillors.

From time to time we all have different ideas about how things should be done, but fortuntely it’s not all that often. What doesn’t help is when the Chair of Council continues to make silly comments throughout a meeting of council about articles in a recent Focus. Whether he agrees with them or not the council chamber is not the place to make fun.

Also with a majority of councillors of the Conservative persuasion another Lib Dem on the council shouldn’t frustrate the political process, it should add to it. My real concern with this comment is the fact that Rob said it in the first place; party politics shouldn’t really be a feature of town council life.

Also with reference to to cllr Conway-Haskins, her comments in the Conservative leaflet came after her comments to the Examiner and therfore it appears she changed her mind.

Jon Williams

By: Rob Jones

Rob Jones — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:43:43 +0000

Hi Bakri,
Name revealed as requested.

For avoidance of doubt my comment, as quoted by you, is based on my perception of the past actions of Lib Dem representatives in office.

By: Bakri Baba

Bakri Baba — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 10:19:04 +0000

Rob seems to know Lib Dem candidate very well as he states “another Lib Dem that will seek to frustrate the political process” Is this statement based on his past experiences with the Lib Dem candidate?
The fact is there are about 500-600 Asian families living in Bradley Stoke now and Conservatives have done nothing to take them on board and involve them in the democratic process.
In fact none of the conservative councillors were seen at the Diwali funtion at the Willow Brook centre.
Now that Lib Dems have come up with the positive idea of the cohesion of different communities, all Conservatives have done is to put a candidate who “used to be intrigued when his wife came home from Stoke Gifford Parish Council meetings”
Is this the criteria of selecting Conservative candidates?

For more details see the link below

http://www.thisisbristol.co.uk/bradleystoke/want-serve-community-Bradley-Stoke/article-1481378-detail/article.html

By: Mark Forsyth

Mark Forsyth — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 09:47:41 +0000

Bakri,
Happy to reveal my full name.

By: Bakri Baba

Bakri Baba — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 20:47:21 +0000

Hi Rob & Mark, would you care to reveal your full names please, unless you are Sir Rob & Sir Mark.

By: Rob

Rob — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 13:28:30 +0000

Cllr Conway-Haskins commented to the Bradley Stoke Examiner at the time of her resignation from the Lib Dems: “I have no leaning towards Labour or the Conservatives. It’s not always about party politics,”

I think thats pretty clear. Now are you prepared to admit you were wrong Jon?

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And having cleared that up lets focus on the things that matter. Since 2007 Conservatives on Bradley Stoke Town Council have doubled the number of police officers on the beat, reduced the amount of litter in the town, committed a record level of funding to youth clubs, refurbished the Play Area at Rosemary Close and overseen the building of a Beacon Play park on the Jubilee Green.

Ernie Brown supports this good work and will help deliver further improvements for residents of all ages.

Jon’s most significant contribution to date has been to call his colleagues a “bunch of *******” and storm out.

The people of Meadowbank have a choice next Thursday. A Conservative who will work for the greater good or another Lib Dem that will seek to frustrate the political process.

By: Jon Williams

Jon Williams — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 10:50:07 +0000

Mark
Like most Conservatives you seem to misunderstand the truth. Cllr Haskins was quoted in a Focus which she said misrepresented her view of events. It turned out that what had been written was actually true, but this didn’t stop her resigning.
As regards my calculation of the number of Conservatives on the council I believe if a cllr is quoted in a party political leaflet, slagging off the oppostion it’s fair to consider them aligned with that party. If you look at the last by-election literature put out by your party you will see a quote from Cllr Haskins; hence the article in the By-election Focus.

Now if you want to talk about untruths the the Conservatives are past masters at that one and I have lots of examples……but too many to mention here.

By: Mark

Mark — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:31:25 +0000

I read with interest the opening paragraph of ‘FOCUS’
For the record, there are currently only 11 Conservatives members on the Town Council and not 12 as quoted. Does Jon Williams perhaps consider Cllr Ronnie Haskins a ‘conservative’ after she resigned from the Liberals and became an Independent? If I recall correctly, one of the reasons given for resigning from the Liberals, was the constant un-truths put out by the Bradley Stoke Liberals. Nothing changes.